If you want to create or edit STL files on your Windows 11/10 PC, this post will interest you. STL which stands for Standard Tessellation Language and Standard Triangle Language is a 3D file format ...

If you think about it, STL files are like PDF files. You usually create them using some other program, export them, and then expect them to print. But you rarely do serious editing on a PDF or an ...

% this function takes triangles generated by reading stl files and slices % them into layers of height defined by slice height. It generates a list % of coordinates a 3D printer needs to move through ...

Worse still, as in our hypothetical example, there are no definition about how the triangles relate so you can create “bad” STL files. Even properly formed files can be tough to work with. You might ...