Posted by ag123 on Mar 12, 2017; 11:45pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/java3d-jogamp-and-an-stl-viewer-tp4037771p4037775.html

i'm thinking that STL format could possibly be included as a 'loader' in the java3d 'continuation' stack, the STL import code i use is not actually mine but attributed to cyanobacterium https://github.com/cyanobacterium/STL-Parser-for-Java who released it under MIT license. i simply included and release all source and retained the original license for its parts in the same spirit.

i'm finding that it is one of the more stable and 'tightly written' stack. However, it loads the file into a structure of triangles in memory, it'd take up quite a bit of memory for large files. however, i choose to go with stability even if it does consume more memory during the loading stage. any way those same structures would be converted into java3d structures and the temporary structures garbage collected

currently, you may like to just play with my app, the STL codes currently still hit a blank for many STL files that one may download from thingverse. i.e. it doesn't parse just about every STL file yet