exported stl opens but object is not visible?

[glenchung]

Hi. I have achieved a five clean scans of a golf club head. After aligning, fusing and saving as an .stl, I try to open the .stl file in Blender. The file opens, but there is nothing viewable. I try to open in Autodesk Inventor. Same result.

I expect the object to appear immediately on opening the file, just as it appears in my David software window. What am I doing wrong, please?

Thank you for your time again.

[glenchung]

Aha, it is now visible in Autodesk Inventor, but not in Blender.
I just needed to wait for Inventor to load the full file.

The file is quite large, 237 Mb. If I were to attempt to slice the .stl into gcode for 3d printing, what slicer program would you recommend for such a large file?

[MagWeb]

The reason why you don't see the file in Blender might be that it is farer of the worlds origin than the field of Blender's default virtual cam settings.
I'm not using Blender but if you'd zoom out you should find it (if my assumption is right).
Alternatively: Move the object's center of mass to the world's origin (e.g. in Meshlab Menue Filters/Normals,Curvatures and Orientation/Apply Transform: Hit MoveCenterToOrigin , Apply and CloseAndFreeze. You might need to recenter MeshLabs cam again via View/Trackball/ResetTrackball - Save your file) - It might still be bigger than Blender's default scene but centered now.

Just an idea...