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Import/Export STL
Import and export of STL files
UI location Operator > Import/Export STL
Usage Use the operator to import ascii or binary files, you can select multiples files. For exporting, you can select multiples objects, they will be exported as an unique stl file. You can select between ascii/binary file format (binary is more compact). You can also choose to enable or disable the modifiers during the export.
Version 0 Author(s) Guillaume Bouchard (Guillaum) and al.
Blender 2.56 License Same as Blender
Category Import-Export Distribution Release
Note(s) Currently the script does not handle importing or exporting of normal. The importing is currently impossible with blender. If some needs support for exporting, fill a bug repport


Executable information
File name
Current version download builtins
Python modules os, itertools, mmap


Links and troubleshooting
Bug reports http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=469&aid=22837&group_id=153
Warning STL sucks as a format, don't use it except you know your needs
Known Issues Do not handle normals import/export and do not handle endieness, there is nothing in the stl spec about it.