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STL Inspector & Repair
Check STL files before printing: size, volume, weight estimate, watertight and manifold checks, normal flipping and triangle reduction.
Free, no uploads, no sign-up. Runs 100% in your browser.
How STL Inspector & Repair works
The mesh is welded and analysed on your device: signed volume, surface area, bounding box, open (boundary) edges, non-manifold edges, zero-area triangles and separate shells. Fixes include flipping inverted normals, removing bad triangles, centring on the plate, unit conversion and simplification with meshoptimizer.
Input: STL, OBJ, PLY, 3MF, OFF, AMF, GLB. Output: STL.
How to use STL Inspector & Repair
- Drop an STL (or OBJ, PLY, 3MF).
- Pick the file units and your filament.
- Read the report and apply fixes if needed.
- Download the fixed STL.
Tips
- A model with open edges may still slice, but closing holes in your CAD program gives cleaner prints.
- Weight is an estimate. Your slicer gives the exact number.
STL Inspector & Repair FAQ
- Is my file uploaded?
- No. Everything runs in this browser tab on your own device. Engines are downloaded once and cached, but your files never leave your computer.
- Are my files uploaded?
- No. This tool runs entirely in your browser tab. Files are read from your disk into memory and the result is generated locally.
- Is it free? Are there limits or watermarks?
- Free and open source (MIT). There are no file-size caps, daily quotas, accounts or watermarks.
- Does it work offline?
- Yes, once the page (and any engine it needs) has loaded, it keeps working without a connection thanks to the service worker cache.
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