On 10/09/2025 17:11, kurtz le pirate wrote:
> 
> The wiki page shows that the structure is very simple, and I think Perl* 
> is a very good candidate for this.
> 


Finally, I spent an hour and here is my first result ;)


I found this template on the web : 
<https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7119375>. The downloaded STL file is 
in binary mode. I converted it to ASCII on this website : 
<https://3dcustomizer.net/tests/stl-bin-to-ascii.html>

Here is the first image to compare with the one on Thingiverse.


I also added an archive that contains :

* Stackable_crate_gridfinity-ascii.stl : the ascii stl file

* stl2pov.pl : the perl script

* Stackable_crate_gridfinity-ascii.inc : the mesh{} include file
   generated by the script

* test.pov : demo scene

* test.png : the image





Of course, there are quite a few things to add such as binary format, 
normals & mesh2{}, colors, etc.


-- 
kurtz le pirate
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