stl-loader-zig

A tiny simple zig library for loading STL files with support for both ASCII and binary representations.

Usage

Example usage provided in example.zig:

const stlLoader = @import("stl-loader");

...

const filepath: []const u8 = "file.stl";

var gpa = std.heap.GeneralPurposeAllocator(.{}){};
const allocator = gpa.allocator();
defer _ = gpa.deinit();

const mesh = try stlLoader.load_stl(allocator, filepath);
defer allocator.free(mesh);
// do stuff with mesh

Loading by default should be done thru dispatcher function, which takes a path for the file relative to the cwd and automatically chooses which implementation of the reader to use. If the type of the STL file is known at compile time, or you wish to dispatch the functions manually, note the offsets for the reader required before calling the functions.

Notes

• At the time of writing this, I am still quite new to zig, so the code may not be perfect. Feel free to suggest improvements and bugfixes in the GitHub issues!