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I have a file to upload but I don;t know where. Anyway if you are still stuck send me an email on nachtmusic8@yahoo.com and I will send you my mini tutorial.
Holy crap it just worked now!! so I had no stl option to save it but I just put a random name with a stl. extension at the end and it just worked without having to have the stl option in the saving presets. Cheers!
Hi friends--I hv just tried to run this in maya 2011..nothing happened .even there was no error msg in the help area. Please help me to run this script for exporting a poly to .stl
Hi all - just tested this in Maya 2011 and it works just fine with no updates. After you've selected your poly objects, and run mayaExportSTL from the MEL command line it will bring up a dialog box about where you want to save the file. Make sure to name your file .stl. If you choose the type Maya ASCII (ma) it will make the file .ma.stl but it is a valid STL file.
Cheers,
Rob
Im on a pc running Maya2011 and I've run into the same problem as everyone here. Tried all the suggestions and the .stl option still does not appear when i run the script (or saves a .stl when i save again after saving .obj/.mb)
any help or directions to other scripts would be appreciated
I highlighted "mayaExportSTL()" when I saved the script to the shelf. It now tries to export files but no .STL option. Why is that? I figured it out. Don't save as per normal. When you're ready to save, select the object and then click the script button. It will prompt you to save (as per the instructions). Save as .mb or .obj or whatever you would usually save it as. You'll notice it goes triangulated (again, as mentioned in the instructions). Select it and then again click the script button. The editMB, editMA, and 'move' options all save as STL. I'm not sure what the difference is between these formats, but I am new to the STL format myself and that is no failing on the part of the plug-in. Now you should be able to export.
