[Florian Mlehliw]

Hey guys!
I'm relatively new to OpenFOAM and this forum, but I hope I follow all the rules with this question.

I have a huge stl file (50GB) that I'm working on. I want to run blockMesh and snappy, but for this I need the vertices of the stl-file. Since it is so huge, I cannot open it in paraview to get the vertices - my paraview always crashes. At the moment, I use the numpy-stl package like this:

import numpy
from stl import mesh
mesh = mesh.Mesh.from_file("my_stl_file")
mesh.max_

This gives me the vertices, but it takes ~2 hours to run. I know there is a possibility for openFoam to read the stl-files and give me the vertices but I've been googling for some time and could not find the answer.
Please help