Comments on: Auto-Rendering STL Files to PNG

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:02:37 +0000

Whoops, my code got swallowed up. That should be a “scale <-1,1,1>” directive.

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:01:35 +0000

Thanks for writing this up! Your post saved me a ton of time.

I found that, just like on Thingiverse, the X-axis of the rendered images was coming out flipped in my images.

After some poking around with the POV-Ray docs, a found that if you put a scale directive at the end of each object{..} definition, the axes and the object come out correctly.

By: Pepe

Pepe — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:07:06 +0000

Ah, I just found out that these are standard libraries! Sorry for asking! Anyhow, I’ll definitely check out MakerBot!

By: Pepe

Pepe — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:59:46 +0000

Hi Adam!
Thanks for sharing! I am also looking for a way to preview STL files in a website for a university project. I have no idea about POVray but it seems pretty straight-forward. Where do I get the other include files in your template, such as math.inc, finish.inc and transforms.inc?
All the best! -Pepe

By: Robot Hacker

Robot Hacker — Tue, 11 May 2010 06:33:19 +0000

Your template is close to what Zach posted on Thingiverse’s Google group. So I mashed together your template and changes mentioned in the group to get an auto scaling auto centering template. I uploaded it to my website at http://3d.robhack.com/

Thanks,
Aaron “Robot Hacker” Shaw

By: Sebastien Bailard

Sebastien Bailard — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:03:09 +0000

Thanks for posting that. I’m trying to figure out how to build povray-like functionality into the reprap.org website.