stl get/find object?

[losiek1987]

Hello, I am fairly new to LabView and using CAD models, so I'm sorry if my question sounds silly...

I have been given a stl file to create a 3d simulation in LV for a group project and I'd like to ask whether there's a possibility of adding some colour or texture to the stl models in LV so they don't appear gray. I have been looking at multiple online examples using both wrl files and stl files, but I only saw techniques such as finding and getting objects from a 3d scene and colouring them were used for wrl files and not for stl. So I was wondering - are there some other techniques to acquire single objects from stl scene and "paint" them?

Thanks in advance for any answers,

D.

PS.

I'm using LabView version 9.

[Rico P]

Hi losiek,

I'm not very familiar with 3D control but I think I've found a few links that may help.

3D Picture Control - Create a Moving Texture Using a Series of Images

3d Texture mapping problem

LabVIEW 3D Picture Control Evaluation Software Discussion

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,

[losiek1987]

thank you for replying Rico  i gave up with the idea of using stl in the end though and just created my own wrl using Maya software. definitely easier than trying to use stl!