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STL

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Introduction

STL is the stereolithography interface language which is the rapid prototyping's current de facto standard. It is a flatten boundary representation where the only primitives are triangles. The normals of the triangles should agree with the counterclockwise contour orientation paradigm.

Keywords

Grammar

solid [part name]
  facet normal value value value
    outer loop
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      vertex value value value
      vertex value value value
    endloop
  endfacet
  ...
endsolid [part name]

Cube

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Last modified: 1/11/99

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