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crymer11 on Sept 17, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub announces 3D File Diffs

What about ASCII STL files? I'd say they're "pretty easy" to edit. I wouldn't want to write an entire one, but I've tweaked values in one before.

jotux on Sept 17, 2013 [–]

What I mean is ease of editing in a typical CAD tool: Solidworks, AutoCad, Sketchup, etc. STL is imported as a solid blob and you lose all the individual features from the source model.

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