stl2gts(1)

💖 stl2gts — the glow-up your STL files deserve 💖

okay bestie, listen. you've got an STL file sitting there looking cute, and you wanna slide it into GTS format instead. that's literally what stl2gts does, and it's giving main character energy for your whole mesh pipeline. this is the manual page for the stl2gts command, from the GNU Triangulated Surface utils family (iykyk 💅).

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

stl2gts [OPTIONS] < input.stl > output.gts

no cap, that's the whole vibe. it reads from stdin and writes to stdout, so you just pipe your stuff in and pipe your stuff out. classic. 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

this manual page documents briefly the stl2gts command. short and sweet, like a good text back. it's a converter, it does the thing, we move on. 💖

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

so these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, which means long options start with two dashes (-). a summary of options is included below, because we're organized like that. ✨

• -r, --revert — reverts face normals. your faces were pointing one way, now they point the other way. flip era. 🙃
• -n, --nomerge — do not merge vertices. normally they get merged, but you said no, so they stay separate. respect. 💅
• -v, --verbose — displays surface statistics. it will literally tell you about your surface. nosy in a helpful way. 📊
• -h, --help — displays the help and exits. the classic escape hatch. 🫶

ngl, -v is the one you want when you're staring at a mesh like "what are you" — it spills the stats for you.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

stl2gts was written by Stephane Popinet <popinet@users.sourceforge.net>.

this manual page was written by Ruben Molina <rmolina@udea.edu.co>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others — sharing is caring, bestie 🫶).

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

(the original page didn't list any SEE ALSO refs, so consider this a little breather — a vibe check break, if you will 💜)

and that's the whole page, periodt. 🎀 source: GNU Triangulated Surface utils, dated June 2, 2008. slay, go convert something. 💖✨🦋