This python package is used for parsing, displaying, and post-processing of STL files. Specifically useful for 3D printing jobs.

Example Usage:

import stlparser
stlmodel = stlparser.parseBSTL("demoparts/angleT.STL")
stlparser.__shiftUp(stlmodel,5)
stlparser.addCuboidSupports(stlmodel)
stlparser.display(stlmodel, showNorms=True)
stlparser.isSimple(stlmodel)

Prereqs:

• python2.7
• matplotlib
• numpy

Currently supports:

• Parsing STL binary files
• Parsing STL normal files
• Displaying STL solids
• Displaying possible support directions
• Adding cuboid supports at all triangle locations that need them (can only do perfectly flat faces currently)
• Save to new STL files

TODO:

• Add supports for angled faces
• Add supports to a particular conglomerate face
• Conglomerate triangles to faces(for each triangle, find its neighbours, if the neighbour shares a normal vector, then it is part of the same face)
• Save in BSTL instead of STL