I'm trying to run these viewstl javascript files in an Angular 8 application. I've run it successfully in an Angular 6 and 7 application by doing the following basics:
Copied the .js files to the application, keeping the web worker files (load_stl.min.js
and parser.min.js
) in the root directory and the rest of the files in assets/scripts
.
Add the .js files to my scripts array in angular.json in this working order
"scripts":
[
"src/assets/scripts/three.min.js",
"src/assets/scripts/webgl_detector.js",
"src/assets/scripts/Projector.js",
"src/assets/scripts/CanvasRenderer.js",
"src/assets/scripts/OrbitControls.js",
"src/assets/scripts/stl_viewer.min.js"
]
Added the necessary code to the template:
html <div id="stl_container"></div>
Lastly referencing stl_viewer.min.js
from the component:
declare var StlViewer:any;
var stl_viewer = new StlViewer(document.getElementById('stl_container'), { models: [ {id:0, filename:"assets/_somefile.stl"} ] });
As I mentioned, it works fine in Angular 6 but when running from Angular 8 I get the error as soon as the javascript is initialized from the component - and I don't understand why.
GET http://localhost:4300/load_stl.min.js 404 (Not Found)
I'm not necessarily sure if the version difference could be the problem
It turns out there is an extra property on the StlViewer class called load_three_files
which takes the path to all the javascript files as argument.
Moving parser.min
and load_stl.min
to the assets/script folder and adding load_three_files: "assets/scripts/"
to StlViewer fixed it.