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The stl.py script is an import translator plugin to get a carving from an stl file.

An import plugin is a script in the interpret_plugins folder which has the function getCarving. It is meant to be run from the interpret tool. To ensure that the plugin works on platforms which do not handle file capitalization properly, give the plugin a lower case name.

The getCarving function takes the file name of an stl file and returns the carving.

STL is an inferior triangle surface format, described at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(file_format)

A good triangle surface format is the GNU Triangulated Surface format which is described at:
http://gts.sourceforge.net/reference/gts-surfaces.html#GTS-SURFACE-WRITE

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Modules
		__init__ fabmetheus_utilities.archive fabmetheus_utilities.geometry.geometry_tools.face fabmetheus_utilities.gcodec fabmetheus_utilities.geometry.solids.triangle_mesh

Functions
		addFacesGivenBinary(stlData, triangleMesh, vertexIndexTable) Add faces given stl binary. addFacesGivenText(stlText, triangleMesh, vertexIndexTable) Add faces given stl text. addFacesGivenVertexes(triangleMesh, vertexIndexTable, vertexes) Add faces given stl text. getCarving(fileName='') Get the triangle mesh for the stl file. getFaceGivenLines(triangleMesh, vertexStartIndex, vertexIndexTable, vertexes) Add face given line index and lines. getFloat(floatString) Get the float, replacing commas if necessary because an inferior program is using a comma instead of a point for the decimal point. getFloatGivenBinary(byteIndex, stlData) Get vertex given stl vertex line. getVertexGivenBinary(byteIndex, stlData) Get vertex given stl vertex line. getVertexGivenLine(line) Get vertex given stl vertex line. unpack(...) Unpack the string containing packed C structure data, according to fmt. Requires len(string) == calcsize(fmt).

Data
		__author__ = 'Enrique Perez (perez_enrique@yahoo.com)' __credits__ = 'Nophead <http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com/>\nArt of Illusion <http://www.artofillusion.org/>' __date__ = '$Date: 2008/21/04 $' __license__ = 'GNU Affero General Public License http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html' absolute_import = _Feature((2, 5, 0, 'alpha', 1), (2, 7, 0, 'alpha', 0), 16384)

Author
		Enrique Perez (perez_enrique@yahoo.com)

Credits
		Nophead <http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com/> Art of Illusion <http://www.artofillusion.org/>