STL Converter

This repository contains a multi-language STL data manipulation tool that can be used to convert STL binary files into ASCII ones and vice-versa.

Python

Check the dedicated Python package README for more information on how to install and use the tool through Pyton.

JavaScript

The tool has also been developed in JavaScript (ES10) for web interface usage (or modular import).

Web

The web interface version is available here.

Modular

Although the tool has not been explicitely developed for modular usage, it can be used like that. Just load the conversion module into your site and access the functions that perform the conversion process.

Note regarding STL numerical format

This conversion tool does not use IEEE 754-compliant numerical formats. Instead, it uses 32-bit floating point values. This greatly reduces the size of the ASCII variant of the STL format, but it might cause computational irregularities in some specific or complex conversion scenarios.