Posted by gouessej on Mar 13, 2017; 10:45pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/java3d-jogamp-and-an-stl-viewer-tp4037771p4037780.html

JogAmp's Ardor3D Continuation has (in my humble opinion) the best STL and PLY importers I have ever seen in Java, I spent several weeks in implementing and testing them, the first one was based on Graham's contribution, the first one is inspired of tons of other loaders but the end result is a lot more reliable. Actually, they are designed to be extendible and writing exporters for those formats in this engine isn't very hard. Our (Graham + I) STL importer is a lot more complete than the rudimentary loader you quote. Feel free to use our source code. Seriously, the source code you quote is poorly commented, just look at ours:
https://github.com/gouessej/Ardor3D/blob/master/ardor3d-extras/src/main/java/com/ardor3d/extension/model/stl/StlImporter.java