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anode505
STLs binary or asci?
February 23, 2011 07:31AM
Registered: 13 years ago
Posts: 99
Figure the title says it all.
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brnrd
Re: STLs binary or asci?
February 23, 2011 09:26AM
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Do you mean which one should you use? I think binary takes up less space.
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epatel
Re: STLs binary or asci?
February 23, 2011 07:03PM
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As a programmer I might add that ascii stores floating point number as text as the binary as they are represented in memory and the conversion back and forth to text could introduce differences. Just a note.
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anode505
Re: STLs binary or asci?
February 24, 2011 07:01AM
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ok. Opened a handful in a text editor and see both are used. I had originally thought that the reprap software would only take one type.
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