wolph
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1 year ago This library is mainly meant for reading/writing STL files, whatever calculation you do after that is up to you :)
Having that said, I think stackoverflow might be a better place for your question. Perhaps this would be a nice starting point? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17836880/orthogonal-projection-with-numpy
Feel free to update your question if you have any numpy-stl specific questions about implementing your algorithm :)
I think you need the mesh.points attribute for your endeavour: https://numpy-stl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/stl.html#module-stl.base
how to use numpy-stl to calculate model projection area along a given axis ,like along x axis (yz plan) y axis (xz plan) ....