STL
Stereolithography
STL was created by 3D Systems in 1987 for its stereolithography printers. It stores a surface as a list of triangles and nothing else: no colour, textures or units.
- Usually comes from
- print libraries such as Printables and Thingiverse, CAD exports and 3D scanners
- Opens in
- every slicer (Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer, OrcaSlicer, UltiMaker Cura and others) and most 3D apps
- Units
- None recorded (read as millimetres by slicers)
- Up axis
- Z up by convention