You can take an STL and slice it with different softwares to be printed on FDM or SLA all the same. Now, certain designs may be optimized for one or the other, but that’s in the design of the part and has nothing to do with file format. So, an STL isn’t specific to FDM or SLA(resin), as it’s the slicers job to translate the STL into something the printer understands. Slicers take these coordinates, and rebuild the 3d object again and cut it into layers to be printed.
These triangles are put together to create 3d surfaces that means that an STL file is simply describing the shape of a 3d object. Each point corresponding to each coordinate is a point of a triangle.
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