Introduction

gmio is a reusable C library providing complete I/O support for various CAD file formats(eg. STL)

gmio aims to be fast, portable(C99 conformance) and feature-rich. Main highlights:

Abstract streams that does not tie the user to C stream(FILE*)
Buffering of input/ouput for efficient device usage
Operations can be easily aborted
Progress report about the I/O operation

Supported formats	Read	Write
AMF uncompressed	no	yes
AMF zip	no	yes
AMF zip64	no	yes
STL ascii	yes	yes
STL binary(little-endian)	yes	yes
STL binary(big-endian)	yes	yes

Building gmio

gmio can be built with CMake, by default a static library is generated.

Read the Build instructions

How to report a bug

If you think you have found a bug in gmio, we would like to hear about it so that we can fix it.
The gmio bug tracking system is open to the public at https://github.com/fougue/gmio/issues.

Always include the following information in your bug report:

the name and version number of your compiler
the name and version number of your operating system
the version of gmio you are using
what configure options it was compiled with.

If the problem you are reporting is only visible at run-time, try to create a small test program that shows the problem when run.

License

gmio is made available under a "2-clause" BSD license.

Credits

"gmio" logo rendered with Prism font(thanks to Erik Yin !)