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For the last few months I have noticed that STL files exported from Fusion 360 no longer show up in Mac OS Quick Look.
When Apple added Quick Look for STL in El Capitan it was was a huge productivity booter! The issue now is that none of my Fusion 360 exported STL files work with quick look any longer, not even ones I exported last year from 360 also no longer show up? They all did before. Other STL I get from online do work still and if I run my exported 360 STLs though netfabb repair they start to work again.
Researching this issue, it appears that STL file support through QuickLook is provided by 3rd party addins. Is it possible that you have installed either an OS X update or new software which may have broken the addin that was previously providing this preview ?
I found some information on debugging this situation at http://www.elektriktrick.com/sw_quicklook.html (the Issues section). Following these steps may highlight where things are disconnected.
It appears that the STL viewer in El Capitan doesn't have full support for binary STL format. We will look into this to try and pin down the specific quirk of our exported data that is causing challenges.
It is possible we are dealing with multiple changes having a cumulative impact, however since the files you exported last year are no longer viewable in Quicklook, its unlikely that a recent Fusion update is causing the whole problem.
Thanks. I guess I'll have to decide if I want to move up to a newer OS on both Macs. The upgrade to El Crapitan trashed my email and some other smaller issues so I've been reluctant to upgrade until absolutely required to.
I'm happily running 10.12 on my mac and I think its an improvement. I have 10.13 on another and it's even better, but some of my older software will not run on it...
I would like to contribute with my own experience regarding this issue. I can't see Fusion 360-saved STL files through quicklook.
I have tested to open them in both Netfabb and MeshLab and then saved them as binary STL files. The resulting files can then be rendered without problem through quicklook.
If anyone still has this problem, I can inform that upgrading to macOS Mojave Version 10.14.1 solved the issue.
Now, every STL file, regardless of what software I saved it from or if it is ASCII or binary, will be rendered nicely as an interactive preview when the space bar is pressed.
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