There are many 3D file formats, out of which STL is the most widely used format. If you ask 3D printing practitioners around you which format they use, you will most probably get ‘STL’ as the answer, ...

STL files are a unique file format that is commonly used in the field of 3D printing. The STL file format was first introduced by Charles Hull in 1987, and since then it has become one of the most ...

The use of STL files become common in recent years with the democratization of additive manufacturing processes and also the advent of numerical technics in the medical field. These two technologies, ...

3D Insider is ad supported and earns money from clicks, commissions from sales, and other ways. The world of 3D printing has seen huge growth in the last couple of years, with professionals and ...

The STL file format provides two different ways of storing information about the triangular facets that tile the object surface. These are called ASCII encoding and binary encoding. In both formats, ...

It is meant to be integrated into a CAD tool. It will be used to select and save faces of 3D models of STL file format. I originally did this in OpenGL and then redid it in WebGL as it will be ...

3D Insider is ad supported and earns money from clicks, commissions from sales, and other ways. The 3D printing industry is quite unique in that it suffers from way too many file formats. This mainly ...

You do not have access to this resource. Faced with the loss of metadata, other file formats enriched with properties attached to facets or vertices (colors, texture, transparency, materials...) have ...