What a let down. Part of this is due to shortcomings in the STL file format. There’s a newer format available, 3MF, and Josef Prusa and Jakub Kočí would like you to start using it. STL — short for ...

STL files are everywhere. When there’s something to 3D print, it’s probably going to be an STL. Which, as long as the model is good just as it is, is no trouble at all. But sooner or later there will ...

At the big 3D Print Week event last month in New York City, Hewlett-Packard (HP) alluded to a big announcement related to 3D Printing file formats. A week later, at the Build 2015 event, Microsoft ...

The StereoLithography (STL) file format was initially developed for 3D systems in the late 1980s. Additive manufacturing was a relatively new technology at this time, having been developed shortly ...

3D printing enthusiast world wide have at some point used Netfabb's cloud service to repair .STL files that were not solid meshes and not manifold. Over the last few years the service's popularity has ...

In this post, we are going to discuss the best free 3D file viewer software for Windows 11/10. Using these free software, you can easily view a variety of 3D files. Some of the commonly supported 3D ...