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Stereolithography is one of the first and most popular of the SFF techniques. It<br />

can produce nearly any shape since the resin bath acts as a liquid support for overhanging<br />

features. Incorporation of solids into the resin bath is problematic because of the<br />

increased scattering of the laser beam. An enduring legacy of the STL technique is the .stl<br />

file format, which defines three-dimensional volumes in terms of a triangular tessellated<br />

surface. The tessellation is without much structure, save the fact that facet normals must<br />

point toward the exterior of the part. There is no connectivity data concerning the facets.<br />

Most SFF techniques use the .stl file as a standard description of the data because the<br />

triangular data is easily sliced into layers.<br />

Figure 2.5 Schematic of the stereolithography process (Materialgeeza on wikipedia).<br />

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