Monthly Archives: April 2013

Introducing stljs, a fast library to read, write, and render STL files

Ever want to parse STL files, but couldn’t find a fast library to read both ASCII and Binary STL files? Or you have STL files, but you want to convert it to an image, so you don’t have to load

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How to convert and render STL files to images

Cubehero isn’t just the web page itself. It depends largely on background workers to do the work of rendering models to images, resizing images, and visual diffing models. The past three weeks have been an overhaul of the system to

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What you need to know about buying a 3D printer

So you’ve decided that you want a home/desktop 3D printer. But like the early days of personal computers, there’s been an explosion of different 3D printers out on the market. There’s about 120 different desktop 3D printers available in 2013.

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