[SciPy-User] STL from nArray (Delauney)

[Hazen Babcock]

On 03/02/2018 11:17 PM, scipy-user-request at python.org wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 22:44:04 +0000
> From: Samuel Maybury <samuel_maybury at me.com>
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> Hi Robert,
>      Thanks for your reply! I?ll take a look. The shapes that would be scanned are very simple: cylindrical with rounded end and no holes. Wouldn?t the triangulation be able to handle the tessellation of that?
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> Many thanks,
>                         Sam
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If they are really simple you might consider programmatically creating 
an OpenSCAD file with the appropriate shapes (cylinder + sphere on the 
end?), then using OpenSCAD to create the STL file.

http://www.openscad.org/

-Hazen