TIN to STL format

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05-12-2011 05:07 AM
EvaWillerslev
New Contributor II
Does anyone know how to convert a TIN to STL format (used for 3D printing).

Thankful for any suggestions...

Eva Willerslev
Emaps GIS & Remote Sensing
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TimothyHales
Esri Notable Contributor
Here is a link that describes this process.  They exported the TIN to VRML and then used Python to convert the VRML to STL.

http://gis.ess.washington.edu/data/vrml/index.html
EvaWillerslev
New Contributor II
Great, thanks.

Although I had hoped to avoid scripting - also I never used python....

I managed to convert the TIN to VRML in ArcScene. So far so good!

But I now wonder if there is a smart free- or shareware program that can do the conversion from VRML to SLT?

Eva