Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts

Re:Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts by kd5bjo on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @02:41AM (#21189411)

I haven’t played with 3d printers in a while, but my understanding is that they’ve pretty much standardized on the STL file format to describe prints. CAD packages should be able to export it, and printer software can read it.

Other than that, there’s likely a bunch of parameters that control the actual printing process— there are a lot of tradeoffs to make between print speed, material usage, part strength, etc. The printer software will ask you about these before starting a print.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(file_format)

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Re:Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts by colejohnson66 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @11:49AM (#21204321)

> I haven’t played with 3d printers in a while, but my understanding is that they’ve pretty much standardized on the STL file format to describe prints.

Not quite. The STL is the model. A slicer “slices” the model into tens to thousands of layers and creates a GCode file that tells the printer exactly what to do.

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