SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — STL thumbnails?

Re: STL thumbnails?

2013-02-09T03:39:34Z

well, i use inventor as my 3d modeling software. When I associate .stl file type with inventor, it will do the thumbnails.

So I assume if your program that you associate .stl files with has that functionality, it will set it up. There might be more manual ways to set it up, as well.

Re: STL thumbnails?

2013-02-07T00:46:30Z

I've also been wanting this. I did at one point have them on my workstation when I was playing with mesh editing for ReconstructMe. But I can't seem to figure out what program was going it for me. Both Netfabb and Meshlab don't do it, but I can't for the life of me remember what else I had installed. If you figure it out, do post what you used

STL thumbnails?

2013-02-06T05:53:58Z

I'd love to be able to look at a windows directory and see image thumbails of each of my STL files.

Does anyone know of a way to achieve this? I'd consider solutions that are either (a) windows explorer enhancements or (b) stand alone applications that can view every STL file in a folder (i.e. some kind of "gallery viewer" software.