help needed - how to import STL data

[alexx]

check the script editor WHY maya can not perform a poly reduce.. that usually happens because you have non manifold geometry...
you need to clean up the data before you can do that.
maya should tell you what to do

cheers
alexx

[uschi]

thats the promt > i tried cleanup and quad and triangulate
it doesn´t works

this stl files produce roundabout 2-3mio polys 2 bad for handwork

...it would be quiet cool to kknow if there an convert-tool for stl that outputs clean data ?

[alexx]

sorry.. dont know one.
what you could also try is conforming the normals (i guess that will take ages on such a model)

[Kabab]

If you have access to studio tools it can read them then you can save it as a wire file which maya will read natively.

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