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This chapter deals with the software that is commonly used for additive manufacturing technology. In particular we will discuss the STL file format that is commonly used by many of the machines to describe the model input data. These files are manipulated in a number of machine-specific ways to create slice data and for support generation and the basic principles are covered here including some discussion on common errors and other software that can assist with STL files. Finally, we consider some of the limitations of the STL format and how it may be replaced by something more suitable in the future like the newly developed Additive Manufacturing File format.
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Gibson, I., Rosen, D., Stucker, B. (2015). Software Issues for Additive Manufacturing. In: Additive Manufacturing Technologies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2113-3_15
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