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Different fields. Collada was for 3D graphics (and I don't know what's going on in that field). STL is for manufacturing. STL has long been popular for comme
by LukeShu 14y ago
Different fields. Collada was for 3D graphics (and I don't know what's going on in that field).
STL is for manufacturing. STL has long been popular for commercial FDMs and CNC machines, and it is also what hobbyists use for their FDMs ("3D printers").
- shurcooL 14y agoAh, this is for 3D printers, no wonder it got popular enough for GitHub to add support for visualizing it. Thanks!
- nickpinkston 14y agoIt's not used for most CNC machines - you want a solid CAD model like STEP/IGES for this.
- lcrs 14y agoThe new hot kids of 3D graphics formats are http://alembic.io http://alembic.io and http://openvdb.org http://openvdb.org. Finally people are moving forward from the twenty-year-old OBJ and the horrorshow that is FBX...