STL_DECIMATE(1)

💖 STL_DECIMATE 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the stl_decimate page — it lives in section 1 of the User Commands manual, and it is literally here to make your chunky little STL files skinnier. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

stl_decimate — bestie, this one simplifies the STL file you hand it, using Sven Forstmann's implementation of Fast Quadric Mesh Simplification: https://github.com/sp4cerat/Fast-Quadric-Mesh-Simplification 🦋

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So like, stl_decimate simplifies the STL file you give it, using Sven Forstmann's implementation of Fast Quadric Mesh Simplification: https://github.com/sp4cerat/Fast-Quadric-Mesh-Simplification 💅

Here's the vibe, the whole usage situation:

stl_decimate [ -t <target triangle count> ] [ -p <percentage of triangles to keep> ] <input file> <output file>

Not me explaining every crumb of this, because you deserve to know: 👑

• It outputs a simplified version of the input mesh. That's the whole point. That's the main character energy. 💖
• -t is the one you use when you want to specifiy an exact triangle count — and yes, that's an integer. No decimals, bestie. 🔥
• -p is for when you'd rather specifiy a fraction of the starting triangle count — and that one is a floating point number between 0 and 1. 🎀
• If you use both -t and -p at the same time? It uses the smaller number of triangles. It's giving "pick the more chaotic option." 😭
• And if you provide neither of them, -p defaults to .5. So you get half the triangles, no thoughts, head empty, slay. 💅

ngl the spelling out there is specifiy — that's what the page says, so that's what I'm telling you. Copy the flag names exactly, the universe is fragile. 🙈

🫶 a lil sign-off 🫶

That's the whole page, bestie — stl_decimate v1.2, dated June 2025. Go forth and decimate (your meshes, NOT your friendships). 🌈⭐💜