To all people on Printables posting #FDM designs: please, for the love of $DEITY, include a STEP version! I often run into the situation where I want to make a slight modification: this is often trivial with STEP files, but _very_ non-trivial with STLs.
Furthermore, STL is a pretty awful format even for printing stuff. Basically all decent slicers can read STEP files now, there's no reason not to give us that option.
3D Printing (npub1d4n…dptf)
#3DPrinting
Koz Ross
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