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From: Bert Timmerman <bert DOT timmerman AT xs4all DOT nl>
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Levente Kovacs wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:32:04 +0100
> Bert Timmerman<bert DOT timmerman AT xs4all DOT nl>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Almost, as AFAIK OpenSCAD does not support STEP file imports yet, I
>> haven't looked at that site for some time, maybe they do now :)
>>      
> It does now:
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/STL_Import_and_Export
>
> So if we make this OpenSCAD work, we can export to any 3D system. And we can
> import STEP of a box.
>
> But I'd then remove the 3D rotate thing from PCB.
>
> Levente
>
>    
Hi Levente,

STL = Standard Tesselation Language, have a look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(file_format)

Not at all like STEP.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.