On 7/4/23 08:03, Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote:
Caligari trueSpace can import STL and it can save to a wide range of formats.
However, it hasn't had any official support since Microsoft bought Caligari to
position trueSpace as a competitor to Google's Sketchup. (I call it Messup
because I've seen some of the worst geometry ever made by people using
Sketchup.) Google had Sketchup for people to use to populate Google Earth with
3D models of buildings. Microsoft whipped up Virtual Earth... and nobody cared.
People weren't stepping up to voluntarily use the free version of Sketchup to
make 3D stuff for Google Earth either.
Microsoft quickly swept trueSpace under the digital rug, left the site for it
unchanged for a while until they got around to deleting it. Lots of people
grabbed the free downloads and some patches and other things have been made.
There's a ton of tSx plugins available for free, including many formerly
commercial ones. Most tSx for version 6.x and some for 5.x will work but most
for older versions won't.
One glitch that nobody has fixed yet is when importing some 3D file formats it
scales the mesh down to make the largest axis, X, Y, or Z, exactly 8 units of
whichever is the currently selected unit in the workspace. With STL I load up
the model in a slicer to get the proper XYZ sizes then scale up to match in
trueSpace then save a copy in its native COB format.
I always save in COB (frequently! it appends an auto-incremented number to the
file names) and export to STL. Exports of the formats it supports are fine.
It's just importing it has the size issue with. Would have been so nice if
Microsoft hadn't killed it by buying the company. I've used every trueSpace
version since 2.2a so I'm used to its oddities it inherited by originally being
an Amiga program.
If you want to give it a whirl there are a few versions of 7.x here
http://truespace3d.free.fr/index.php/truespace-7-6/
I use 6.6 since the Model Side of 7.x is essentially version 6.6 and I never
could get into the new 7.x Workspace. It's so different from 2.x through 6.6.
Hmmm, I don't remember if Workspace side has the size issue with importing.
No thanks for the link Greg, every button on that page leads to a porno
dl with no exit buttons in sight. Its been compromised, probably by M$.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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