Protoyping .stl format files

[dooleygav]

Whe you export a stl file from Pro-E or solidworks, wat does the file contain?

x,y cordinates of vertices etc or what?

 

[Mech_Engineer]

An STL file describes a raw unstructured triangulated surface by the unit normal and vertices (ordered by the right-hand rule) of the triangles using a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(file_format [Broken])

 

[FredGarvin]

I have an STL on my machine right now but it was exported INTO Pro-E. Like ME mentioned, it is a collection of facets.

 

[dooleygav]

So just a number of trianlges with different coordinates?...


Okay...

Thanks,

I was looking into making a program where it recognises the faces of Basic shapes... So it could be done...