Orbiter Re-entry Path
We ran the CFD from Mach 0 – 25 and altitudes 0 – 105 km and plan to do ascent and reentry optimization next. We are planning no greater than 20 degrees to stay stable.
Meshmixer loads the STL with colors and is a tiny installation compared to Blender. Blender only shows the colors on the PLY import, which is an even bigger file than the STL with colors embedded.
We uploaded the PLY file and added it to the ‘Files’ page with HTTP instruction to download rather than open the file.
http://space-plane.org/files.htm
With a simple switch in Blender you can display STL in color but it doesnt understand Vertex Color when loading STL so we use a PLY file for that.