Renders stl files as ASCII art.
The basic usage is to simply pass the stl file that you want to render to get the default render and information about the file.
$ ./stl2ascii marvin.stl
Header: solid 20140205 Marvin_KeyChain
Triangles: 13480
Dimensions: [24.463612 19.367496 25.410944]
Mins: [0.14069304 0.7325029 0.12500025]
Maxs: [24.604305 20.099998 25.535944]
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You can choose the perspective and the size of the render by using -d [front|side|top] [size].
You can also turn off the information header with -i=false.
$ ./stl2ascii -i=false -d side 70 marvin.stl
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