0001586: Create Consistent Selection for ASCII / Binary .stl File Export

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0001586	FreeCAD	Feature	public	2014-06-20 16:12	2015-12-15 13:17

Reporter	bejant	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	not fixable
Product Version	trunk
Fixed in Version	0.16

Summary	0001586: Create Consistent Selection for ASCII / Binary .stl File Export
Description	From the following forum thread: http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6837#p55220 From File -> Export -> Files of type -> Mesh formats ... , the user cannot choose to Export in either ASCII or Binary .stl file format. However when using the GUI, it seems that only in the Mesh WB can a user export a .stl mesh file in either ASCII or Binary format. Here is is done by navigating to Meshes -> Export Mesh -> Files of Type ... and from the pop-up menu the user can select "Binary .stl" or "ASCII .stl". So maybe when navigating to File -> Export -> Files of Type button -> Mesh Formats, the user gets a pop-up window for mesh formats similar to the pop-up from Mesh WB -> Meshes -> Export -> Files of Type. This could be consistent across the appropriate WB's.
Additional Information	OS: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS Word size: 32-bit Version: 0.14.3677 (Git) Branch: master Hash: 07c64e206d05ae662ba40ae125ba991cced7cc9e Python version: 2.7.3 Qt version: 4.8.1 Coin version: 3.1.3 SoQt version: 1.5.0 OCC version: 6.7.0
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FreeCAD Information

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2014-06-20 16:12	bejant	New Issue
2015-09-13 21:43	wmayer	Note Added: 0006414
2015-09-13 21:43	wmayer	Status	new => closed
2015-09-13 21:43	wmayer	Resolution	open => not fixable
2015-12-15 13:17	yorik	Fixed in Version	=> 0.16

wmayer 2015-09-13 21:43 administrator ~0006414	If you want to export ASCII STL via File > Export you must choose the extension .ast. Popping up a further dialog to query whether binary or ASCII is not only impossible to do from Mesh App but also annoying. Therefore we have the specialized import/export commands in the Mesh workbench.