Michael,
STL will probably be smaller than DXF independent
of whether it is ASCII or binary. The reason is
DXF is an ASCII format (a wordy one at that) that can
contain information other than surface faces. In addition,
the face information is very much like STL in that each
face definition contains vertex information (there is
also color and data type information as well). Therefore,
both formats contain redundant vertex information.
If the DXF file contains only face information, it will
probably be similar in size to an ASCII STL.
Ciao.
Siemer, Michael wrote:
> I was posed a question by a work colleague that I wasn't able to
> answer:
>
> For the same part, how does the STL format file size compare to the
> DXF format file size? (I would guess it's a function of
> resolution...but holding all things equal.)
>
> Any thoughts are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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