JAVA Application - to Import STL objects to OpenSCAD with point values for editing

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This Java program is invaluable for extracting a 2D or 3D object from a basic SVG sketch. Typically, you can directly import an STL 3D printer object into OpenSCAD. You can resize it, translate it, rotate it - everything you need to do. However, you won't get the points used in the object. To edit the lines or single points, you must have these values within the scad command list. What I created is a program that converts XML-based information from SVG files to point values for OpenSCAD. - Importing values - Setting a specific point for every single value - Creating 2D-polygon objects - Creating optional 3D-objects - Calculating center points of individual objects within the SVG (each line inner and outer, circles are single objects identifiable by the M-index for starting position and L-index for line vectors) - Obtaining information on min and max values of the object _____________________ Now you can import a STL file, make a 2D projection of it (perhaps cut into slices), and export this result from OpenSCAD to a SVG file. Open this file with the Java program, select the source, and specify the target scad file. Let the tool work, then open the SVG file and create a new OpenSCAD project. When you open this new file, you will see every object. Per each, there is a single module named p with a rising number. I have automatically rounded each value to 1/100mm. You can exclude individual points from the polygon, insert new points, move points, and get simple measurements (the center of rotated objects cannot be measured by simple X-Y distances; see the red arrow markers).