I have seen on a youtube FreeCad tutorial a feature where a created mesh file was viewed from within FreeCad. It seemed to be opened from the File menu under Recent Files, my Recent File only shows FCStd files. When opened the viewer screen had a title "STL Viewer" in the menu bar.
When I double click on a STL file in a file folder a new FreeCad opens and displays the STL file without a file name!
How can I open a STL file from within the currently open FreeCad program?
OS: Windows 7
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.15944 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
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Python version: 2.7.14
Qt version: 4.8.7
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Re: STL Viewer
If you haven't previously opened STL files in FreeCAD, they cannot possibly show up in the Recent Files menu entry. By default, the size of recent files list (found in Edit --> Preferences --> General/General) is set to 4, so it will list the 4 most recently opened files, whatever their file extension might be; if an STL was opened before that, it won't be shown in the list.
FreeCAD's window title is always FreeCAD, STL files are shown in the main window, there is no dedicated "STL Viewer". Isn't it possible that another program was used? Without the link to the YouTube tutorial we cannot possibly guess.
File --> Open, as simple as that, will open the STL in a new document; or File --> Import to import the STL into the active document, if there's one.
This is as designed. The tree label for the mesh object created when you open/import the STL adopts the name of the STL file.
Re: STL Viewer
Thanks NormandC. Yes it was simple, just got confused!! 