title: loading binary STL model with assimp
body: <p>I've started to get familiar with Assimp. My tasks with this library is quite simple, just to load a 3D model, visualize it and sparse neccessary information from it e.g. facets, facet normals... probably some manipulatinos with camera</p>
  
  <p>I've successfully loaded several models at <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19841602/assimp-demo-loading-3d-model?noredirect=1#comment29789467_19841602">link</a></p>
  
  <p>the example given here can load obj and ascii stl models. However, the same task cannot be done with STL binary model which generates an error like: "ASCII file is empty or invalid; no data loaded - could not load model"</p>
  
  <p>two other references confirm me that my error is not the first one:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/assimp/discussion/817654/thread/c38dd95d" rel="nofollow noreferrer">link1</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/4740" rel="nofollow noreferrer">link2</a></p>
  
  <p>the 2nd link recommends to use ivcon as a solution. however the post was quite 3 years ago</p>
  
  <p>How about the current solution? can I fix it directly with some import command settings?</p>