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STL Export for IntelliCAD is a Stereolithography (.stl) file export plug-in for IntelliCAD®. This plug-in gives IntelliCAD the ability to export geometric data from IntelliCAD to ASCII and Binary STL files.

The STL file format is the Rapid Prototyping industry's standard data transmission format and is the format required to interact with stereolithography machines. Stereolithography files contain solids which are made up of 3 sided facets. STL Export for IntelliCAD reads mesh objects (PolyFace Mesh, Polygon mesh and 3D Faces) in the active drawing and writes them out to a STL file.

STL Export for IntelliCAD is very easy to use. Once installed, it must be loaded into the IntelliCAD environment. There are simple instructions for this in the Getting Started document which can be found in the installation folder. Once loaded it adds new commands to IntelliCAD's existing commands and a new submenu called "STLExport" to the IntelliCAD menu containing these newly added commands.

STL Export for IntelliCAD comes with detailed documentation as well as a tutorial to get you started in the shortest possible time.


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