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Floating-point number Mantissa Exponent Tessellations Whitespace

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Characteristics

Mathematical surfaces Rhino 3D Blender NURBS

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3D printing

SLS SHS DMLS EBM DLP

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Additive manufacturing file format

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Developed by: 3D Systems
Initial release: 1987
Internet media type: model/stl · model/x.stl-ascii · model/x.stl-binary
Type of format: Stereolithography

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Additive manufacturing file format

Format

Characteristics

Mathematical surfaces Surface (topology)
Rhino 3D
Blender Blender (software)
NURBS

3D printing

SLS Selective laser sintering
SHS Selective heat sintering
DMLS Selective laser melting
EBM Electron-beam additive manufacturing
DLP Digital Light Processing
FFF Fused filament fabrication
Polyhedron

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Mathematica

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Nodes49

Edges48

Triples8

Avg. degree1.96

Density0.040816

Components1

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STL (file format)

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Internet media type · 3

STL (file format) → model/stl, model/x.stl-ascii, model/x.stl-binary

Developed by · 1

STL (file format) → 3D Systems

Filename extension · 1

STL (file format) → .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace} .stl

Initial release · 1

STL (file format) → 1987

Type of format · 1

STL (file format) → Stereolithography

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stl file format 3d files normal ascii software color binary used facet triangle cad vertices red systems stereolithography may although

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Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
STL (file format)	Developed by	3D Systems	1.00	infobox
STL (file format)	Filename extension	.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace} .stl	1.00	infobox
STL (file format)	Initial release	1987	1.00	infobox
STL (file format)	Internet media type	model/stl	1.00	infobox
STL (file format)	Internet media type	model/x.stl-ascii	1.00	infobox
STL (file format)	Internet media type	model/x.stl-binary	1.00	infobox
STL (file format)	Type of format	Stereolithography	1.00	infobox
Mathematica	instance of	Typical units aremmandinch.STL can also be used for interchanging data between CAD/CAM systems and computational environments	0.80	text

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