There's already a github for 3D models, it's called Sketchfab (http://sketchfab.com) and it rocks.
STL File Viewing
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Re: STL File Viewing
#62There's already a github for 3D models, it's called Sketchfab ( http://sketchfab.com ) and it rocks.
> There's already a github for 3D models, it's called Sketchfab
Sketchfab doesn't have native support for git repositories. You could upload a tarball of a git repository, but that's seriously missing the point.
Re: STL File Viewing
#63This is really cool, but I always feel kind of dirty putting my STL (or any other binary) files into a git repository. I hope GitHub adds support for scad files soon. In theory it should be pretty easy since they already support STL -- have openscad generate an STL from the scad files on the fly.
STL has an ascii variant if you like. But the real issue is placing derived files under source control. There's no good answer here. If the STL is the output of, say, a script engine that generates parametrized parts, then of course it shouldn't be in git. If it's the output of a manual process in an interactive tool (e.g. a CAD program) then the distinction is fuzzier. It's not really the "editable source", but then…
> If it's the output of a manual process in an interactive tool (e.g. a CAD program) then the distinction is fuzzier. It's not really the "editable source", but then neither can it be automatically derived by a build system.
It sounds like what you'd really want, in that case, would be an ASCII-encoded log-structured manipulation-history format--sort of similar to a Redis Append-Only File.
Re: STL File Viewing
#64Why STL? I'd wager OBJ is a much more common interchange format for 3D models.
We grabbed a 3D printer for the office a while ago.
Re: STL File Viewing
#65Why would I want to view the Standard Template Library?