The tool has been developed in Python>=3.9 for direct command line usage. Installation can be performed via pip and used through a really simple syntax.
Note: these instructions assume that your Python interpreter is alised as python. If you have configured it otherwise, please use the proper alias.
python -m pip install stlconverter
The command for invoking the STL converter tool is as follows:
python -m stlconverter <input file path> <output mode>
The arguments for the command are the following:
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.
FAQs
STL/STLA file conversion utility.
We found that stlconverter demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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