What STL files are and why they matter for 3D printing STL files for 3D printing are the lingua franca of additive manufacturing: a simple geometric description that tells a 3D printer how to recreate a shape. Originally developed in the 1980s, the STL format encodes surfaces as a mesh of triangles and omits color,…
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