STL
Stereo Lithography file format parser
Install
npm install stl
Use
Convert binary stl to ascii stl
var stl = var fs = ; var facets = stl;fs;
Convert ascii stl to binary stl
var stl = var fs = ; var facets = stl;fs;
Object Structure
toObject
and fromObject
use the following array structure
description: "abc 123" // (optional) facets: normal: x y z verts: x y z x y z x y z // attributeByteCount (optional uint16) // repeats ...
Streaming
fs.createReadStream('./test/ascii/tri.stl')
.pipe(stl.createParseStream())
.on('data', function(object) {
/* first object will be:
{ description: "BOLLEN"}
*/
/*
second object is a facet which looks like:
{
normal: [ 1, 0.5, 0.25 ],
verts: [ [ 10, 10, 10 ], [ 4, 4, 4 ], [ 5, 5, 5 ] ]
}
*/
})
License
MIT