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The stl.py script is an import translator plugin to get a carving from an stl file.

An import plugin is a script in the import_plugins folder which has the function getCarving. It is meant to be run from the interpret tool. To ensure that the plugin works on platforms which do not handle file capitalization properly, give the plugin a lower case name.

The getCarving function takes the file name of an stl file and returns the carving.

STL is an inferior triangle surface format, described at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(file_format)

A good triangle surface format is the GNU Triangulated Surface format which is described at:
http://gts.sourceforge.net/reference/gts-surfaces.html#GTS-SURFACE-WRITE

This example gets a carving for the stl file Screw Holder Bottom.stl. This example is run in a terminal in the folder which contains Screw Holder Bottom.stl and stl.py.


> python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Sep 22 2007, 01:43:31)
[GCC 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import stl
>>> stl.getCarving()
[11.6000003815, 10.6837882996, 7.80209827423
..
many more lines of the carving
..

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Modules
		__init__ skeinforge_tools.skeinforge_utilities.gcodec skeinforge_tools.skeinforge_utilities.triangle_mesh

Functions
		addFacesGivenBinary(stlData, triangleMesh, vertexIndexTable) Add faces given stl binary. addFacesGivenText(stlText, triangleMesh, vertexIndexTable) Add faces given stl text. addFacesGivenVertices(triangleMesh, vertexIndexTable, vertices) Add faces given stl text. getCarving(fileName='') Get the triangle mesh for the stl file. getFaceGivenLines(triangleMesh, vertexStartIndex, vertexIndexTable, vertices) Add face given line index and lines. getFloat(floatString) Get the float, replacing commas if necessary because an inferior program is using a comma instead of a point for the decimal point. getFloatGivenBinary(byteIndex, stlData) Get vertex given stl vertex line. getVertexGivenBinary(byteIndex, stlData) Get vertex given stl vertex line. getVertexGivenLine(line) Get vertex given stl vertex line.

Data
		__author__ = 'Enrique Perez (perez_enrique@yahoo.com)' __credits__ = 'Nophead <http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com/>\nArt of Illusion <http://www.artofillusion.org/>' __date__ = '$Date: 2008/21/04 $' __license__ = 'GPL 3.0' absolute_import = _Feature((2, 5, 0, 'alpha', 1), (2, 7, 0, 'alpha', 0), 16384)

Author
		Enrique Perez (perez_enrique@yahoo.com)

Credits
		Nophead <http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com/> Art of Illusion <http://www.artofillusion.org/>