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04 Aug. 20160

What is an STL file anyway?

Ideally a 3D printing file format would have all the information needed to make a football in it. Color, texture and material information would have to be in it. This is not the case in STL currently. A rendering of a football.
Author: Joris Category: Makers Corner

STL file (Standard Tessellation Language or STereoLithograhpy file) files are by far the most popular file format used for 3D printing. Developed by 3D Systems over 29 years ago the file type is ubiquitous and used by all hardware and software vendors in the Additive Manufacturing and 3D printing...

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