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Hi there! STEP files are an absolute beast of a format, and interpreting them requires a geometry kernel of no small sophistication. How did you incorporate STEP support into a Chrome extension? Did you recompile OpenCASCADE for JS or something?

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We are having a CAD software (like solid, but written in python) on the backend, it does the magic

So the files are uploaded to your service?

File buffer is sent to our service responds with converted buffer. Nothing is saved or logged anywhere

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