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STL Import for Alibre Design - Stereolithography STL file import add-on
for Alibre Design
STL Import for Alibre Design is a Stereolithography (.stl) file
import add-in for Alibre Design®. This add-in gives Alibre Design the
ability to import geometric data from ASCII and Binary STL files.
STL Import for Alibre Design reads polygon mesh data stored in
STL files and imports it into Alibre Design. A polygon mesh in a STL
file is comprised of a set of triangular faces. STL Import for Alibre
Design creates trimmed planar surfaces for each triangle and knits
them together to create a solid body.
STL Import for Alibre Design is very easy to use. It adds new
commands to Alibre Design. Once installed, it automatically loads itself
into Alibre Design and adds a new submenu called "STLImport" to the
Alibre Design menu containing these new commands.
STL
Import for Alibre Design comes with detailed documentation as well as a
tutorial to get you started in
the shortest possible time.
If you
need any additional information please
contact SYCODE.
The
STL File Format
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 files may be ASCII or binary data,
although binary is far more common due to the resulting size of the CAD
data when saved to the ASCII format. A STL file describes a raw
unstructured triangulated surface by the unit normal and vertices
(ordered by the right-hand rule) of the triangles using a
three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system. Many CAD systems are able
to output the STL file format among their other formats, but very few
have the ability to import STL files.
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