STL2CAD

A lightweight utility to convert STL files into CAD formats.

stl2cad geometry.stl -o geometry.step

Dependencies

The stl2cad package depends on FreeCAD, which can be downloaded here. The FreeCAD Python modules must also be on the Python path for stl2cad to work.

An example script of downloading and setting up FreeCAD in a Linux environment is provided below.

mkdir freecad
cd freecad

wget https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/download/1.0.0/FreeCAD_1.0.0-conda-Linux-x86_64-py311.AppImage

chmod -v +x ~/Downloads/FreeCAD_*.AppImage
./FreeCAD_*.AppImage --appimage-extract

To Do

• clarify and test example install script (need to add to path)
• add better examples
• add tests
• allow saving multiple formats in one go (more efficient)