liang-xiaohui / voxel8

Turn STL files into voxels, images, and videos

Voxel8

A fast STL slicer written in C++. It turns STL files into voxels.

Voxel8 is a fork of cpederkoff/stl-to-voxel with the goal of re-implementing the tool in C++ because speed matters!

Main Features

• Convert stl files into a voxel representation
• Output to (a series of) .pngs, .xyz, .svx
• Command line interface

Repo Structure

The original Python code was moved to the subfolder python. The newly implemented C++ code is located in the subfolder cpp.

How to run

Run in command line

pip install git+https://github.com/cpederkoff/stl-to-voxel.git
stltovoxel input.stl output.png

Multiple materials

stltovoxel input1.stl input2.stl output.png --colors "red,green"

Hex color values are also supported

stltovoxel input1.stl input2.stl output.png --colors "#FF0000,#00FF00"

Integrate into your code

import stltovoxel
stltovoxel.convert_file('input.stl', 'output.png')

Run manually for testing

git clone https://github.com/cpederkoff/stl-to-voxel.git
cd stl-to-voxel
python3 -m stltovoxel input.stl output.png

The resolution is optional and defaults to 100.

Example:

Multi-color Example:

Model credit