diff --git a/lib/Slic3r/Format/STL.pm b/lib/Slic3r/Format/STL.pm
index 3141374b9..705c7537a 100644
--- a/lib/Slic3r/Format/STL.pm
+++ b/lib/Slic3r/Format/STL.pm
@@ -7,37 +7,10 @@ sub read_file {
     my $self = shift;
     my ($file) = @_;
     
-    Slic3r::open(\my $fh, '<', $file) or die "Failed to open $file\n";
-    
-    # let's detect whether file is ASCII or binary
-    my $mode;
-    {
-        my $size = +(stat $fh)[7];
-        $mode = 'ascii' if $size < 80 + 4;
-        
-        # skip binary header
-        seek $fh, 80, 0;
-        read $fh, my $buf, 4;
-        my $triangle_count = unpack 'L', $buf;
-        die "STL file seems invalid, could not read facet count\n" if !defined $triangle_count;
-        my $expected_size =
-            + 80 # header
-            +  4 # count
-            + $triangle_count * (
-                + 4   # normal, pt,pt,pt (vectors)
-                  * 4   # bytes per value
-                  * 3   # values per vector
-                + 2 # the trailing 'short'
-            );
-        $mode = ($size == $expected_size) ? 'binary' : 'ascii';
-    }
-    
-    my $facets = [];
-    my $vertices = [];
-    $mode eq 'ascii'
-        ? _read_ascii($fh, $facets, $vertices)
-        : _read_binary($fh, $facets, $vertices);
-    close $fh;
+    my $tmesh = Slic3r::TriangleMesh::XS->new;
+    $tmesh->ReadSTLFile($file);
+    $tmesh->Repair;
+    my ($vertices, $facets) = @{$tmesh->ToPerl};
     
     my $model = Slic3r::Model->new;
     my $object = $model->add_object(vertices => $vertices);
@@ -45,64 +18,6 @@ sub read_file {
     return $model;
 }
 
-sub _read_ascii {
-    my ($fh, $facets, $vertices) = @_;
-    
-    my $point_re = qr/(([^ ]+)\s+([^ ]+)\s+([^ ]+))/;
-    
-    my $facet;
-    my %vertices_map = ();
-    seek $fh, 0, 0;
-    while (<$fh>) {
-        if (!$facet) {
-            /^\s*facet/ or next;  # be tolerant with malformed STL files not having the "normal" word
-            $facet = [];  # ignore normal
-        } else {
-            if (/^\s*endfacet/) {
-                push @$facets, $facet;
-                undef $facet;
-            } else {
-                /^\s*vertex\s+$point_re/o or next;
-                my $vertex_id = $1;
-                my $vertex_idx;
-                if (exists $vertices_map{$vertex_id}) {
-                    $vertex_idx = $vertices_map{$vertex_id};
-                } else {
-                    push @$vertices, [map $_ * 1, $2, $3, $4];
-                    $vertex_idx = $vertices_map{$vertex_id} = $#$vertices;
-                }
-                push @$facet, $vertex_idx;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    if ($facet) {
-        die "STL file seems invalid\n";
-    }
-}
-
-sub _read_binary {
-    my ($fh, $facets, $vertices) = @_;
-    
-    die "bigfloat" unless length(pack "f", 1) == 4;
-    
-    my %vertices_map = ();
-    binmode $fh;
-    seek $fh, 80 + 4, 0;
-    while (read $fh, $_, 4*4*3+2) {
-        push @$facets, my $facet = [];
-        for (unpack 'x[f3](a[f3])3') {  # ignore normal
-            my $vertex_idx;
-            if (exists $vertices_map{$_}) {
-                $vertex_idx = $vertices_map{$_};
-            } else {
-                push @$vertices, [ unpack 'f<3', $_ ];
-                $vertex_idx = $vertices_map{$_} = $#$vertices;
-            }
-            push @$facet, $vertex_idx;
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 sub write_file {
     my $self = shift;
     my ($file, $model, %params) = @_;
diff --git a/xs/t/01_trianglemesh.t b/xs/t/01_trianglemesh.t
index 92f8bc7ba..97e98fcce 100644
--- a/xs/t/01_trianglemesh.t
+++ b/xs/t/01_trianglemesh.t
@@ -9,8 +9,4 @@ use Test::More tests => 1;
 is Slic3r::TriangleMesh::XS::hello_world(), 'Hello world!',
     'hello world';
 
-my $t = Slic3r::TriangleMesh::XS->new();
-$t->ReadSTLFile("../../stl/testcube20mm.stl");
-use XXX; XXX($t);
-
 __END__