stl import

[Kyle Stapleton]

Trying to import a stl file I got off the net into Aspire 4.5 with no luck.
I will open in Pro-E and 123D.

http://screencast.com/t/Mw2wgZFvXrYu

[ssflyer]

That's an OpenGL error. Might be a video card driver issue? Can you import other STL's without problems?

[Kyle Stapleton]

Yes I can.

http://screencast.com/t/0yxJG2xWl

Here is were I got the file

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1274

[adrianm]

That file imports fine into Aspire 4.5 for me.

As Ron says that error is usually caused by graphics card drivers.

[Kyle Stapleton]

What kind of card do I need?

[srwtlc]

Opened fine for me also.

It may just be a situation that you are running generic Microsoft drivers and need to update them to the manufacturer specific drivers for the graphics card or onboard graphics you have. Check the manufacturers site for them according to the model PC you have.

[Kyle Stapleton]

Will try tomorrow.
Thanks

[Brian Moran]

Hi Kyle,

A few people updating to Aspire 4.5 via the patch seem to have ended up with an incorrectly updated opengl driver within Aspire.

There is an updated version of the patch now available - Aspire 4.510. Can you do 'Help - Check for Updates' again to update to the latest version. If the problem still persists after the update, please contact Vectric at support@vectric.com.

Thanks

Brian

[hh_woodworking]

Kyle,
Make sure that your job size is set large also. That model is very large in size if you dont reset the scale. Had that happen to me before on importing STL files

[Kyle Stapleton]

Scott, updated the driver still did not work.

Brian, tried to update Aspire and got this
http://screencast.com/t/nrTCU5x4FU4

hh, made my sheet size 96x48x5 and still did not work.

Anyone else have an idea?

[gc3]

email vectric support........

[Kyle Stapleton]

Will do.
will do, need 10 characters

[srwtlc]

Try the update again, I got the same message all morning. Must have been something wrong at the Vectric servers. Works now.

[srwtlc]

I take that back. Although it connects now, the download is suuuuper slooow!

[Xray]

I tried the update too, est time of 108 hours so I had to pass ,,, Is it available to dl ?

[adrianm]

According to the Vectric forum the servers were overloaded with the amount of people downloading the Aspire and VCarve updates after the newsletter went out.

Updates can be downloaded from here - http://www.vectric.com/support/program-updates.html - but they're probably from the same server so would be slow as well. The built-in update process is easier.

Running not too bad at the time of posting.