STL Export for Bricscad 1.0

STL Export for Bricscad 1.0 provides you with a professional program that you can export geometric data to ASCII and Binary STL files. The STL file format is the Rapid Prototyping industrys standard data transmission format and is the format required to interact with stereolithography machines.

Installation & Usage

Since STL Export for Bricscad is a plug-in for Bricscad powered applications, it must be loaded into the application's environment before it can be used. Please follow the simple instructions in the STL Export for Bricscad ReadMe document which is copied into the installation folder. After you have loaded the plug-in file into the Bricscad powered application, simply click on the menu items in the "STLExport" submenu to run these new commands. Truly, software made simple!

The 'STLExport' menu consists of the following commands:

• STLExport - Exports a STL file
• STLExportHelp - Displays the STL Export for Bricscad help file
• STLExportRegister - Registers your copy of STL Export for Bricscad
• STLExportAbout - Displays the STL Export for Bricscad About box
  

The STL File Format

1. The STL file format is the Rapid Prototyping industry's standard data transmission format and is the format required to interact with stereolithography machines. Stereolithography files contain solids which are made up of 3 sided facets.
2. STL files may be ASCII or binary data, although binary is far more common due to the resulting size of the CAD data when saved to the ASCII format. A 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.
3. Many CAD systems are able to output the STL file format among their other formats, but very few have the ability to import STL files.

Major Features:

1. The STL file format is the Rapid Prototyping industry's standard data transmission format and is the format required to interact with stereolithography machines. Stereolithography files contain solids which are made up of 3 sided facets.
2. STL Export for Bricscad reads mesh objects (PolyFace Mesh, Polygon mesh and 3D Faces) in the active drawing and writes them out to a STL file.
3. STL Export for Bricscad is very easy to use. Once installed, it must be loaded into the Bricscad environment.
4. Follow the simple instructions in the Getting Started document which can be found in the installation folder. Once loaded it adds new commands to Bricscad's existing commands and a new submenu called "STLExport" to the Bricscad menu containing these newly added commands.