We are attempting to use Maya as an STL modeller and would like to expot the models as a .ply file format. Is anyone aware of a conversion utility or even a plugin for Maya that will allow us to do this. Thank you.Flatlander
http://www.solidview.com/compare.htm http://www.deskartes.com/
More links here
http://www.eeel.nist.gov/iges/igesTools.html
http://www.xdsoft.com/explorer/
You can get a 30 day full functional demo of this program and try it's conversion
http://home.snafu.de/hg/
GLview says that it can also make this conversion from DXF or OBJ to STL
Polytrans claims to support export to STL http://www.okino.com/