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bsutton edited this page Oct 22, 2011
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October 2011
The first component developed was the file manipulation library which supports the creation of AMF files by merging multiple STL files. At this point in time there are no native CAD applications that support AMF. As such allowing multiple STL files to be merged into a single AMF file allows existing CAD applications to be used to support our multi-material tool chain.
The conversion tool is complete and supports the following features.
- Read/Write STL, STLB and AMF files (with crude support for OBJ) files.
- Provide unit conversion when merging files (millimeter to/from inches, meters, microns, feet)
- Allow multiple input files to be merged into a single output file.
- Rotate or translate the input file when writing it to the output file.
- Assign a material to an input file when the output file is an AMF file.
- Assign a colour to an input file when the output file is an AMF file.
- High speed manipulation of all of the above through the aggressive use of threads.