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How to Compress / Decompress STL File Using C#

In order to compress or decompress STL file, we’ll use

Aspose.ZIP for .NET

API which is a feature-rich, powerful and easy to use document compression and decompression API for C# platform. Open

NuGet

package manager, search for Aspose.ZIP and install. You may also use the following command from the Package Manager Console.

Command


PM> Install-Package Aspose.ZIP

Steps for STL Files Compression in C#

Developers can easily zip folders, single or multiple files programmatically with just few lines of code.

  • Define folder path containing STL files.
  • Create Object of Archive.
  • Using the Archive object, load file with a full path using its CreateEntry method.
  • Call the Save() method and pass the compressed file name (full path) as a parameter.
  • Now you will get STL file as a zip file in a relevant folder without using any zip, rar or any other compatible program.

System Requirements

Our APIs are supported on all major platforms and Operating Systems. Before executing the code below, please make sure that you have the following prerequisites on your system.

  • Microsoft Windows or a compatible OS with .NET Framework, .NET Core
  • Development environment like Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Aspose.ZIP for .NET DLL referenced in your project - Install from NuGet using the Download button above
 

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    STL What is STL File Format

    STL, abbreviation for stereolithrography, is an interchangeable file format that represents 3-dimensional surface geometry. The file format finds its usage in several fields such as rapid prototyping, 3D printing and computer-aided manufacturing. It represents a surface as a series of small triangles, known as facets, where each facet is described by a perpendicular direction and three points representing the vertices of the triangle. Resultant data is used by applications to determine the cross section of the 3D shape to be built by the fabber. There is no information available in the STL file format for representation of colour, texture or other common CAD model attributes.

    Other Supported Compression / Decompression Formats

    Using C#, One can also compress / decompress many other formats including.

    3DS (3D Sudio DOS Mesh)
    3MF (3D Manufacturing Format)
    AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
    AMF (Additive Manufacturing Format)
    ASE (2D Animation File)
    AVI (Audio Video Multimedia Container)
    AZW (Digital Ebook Format)
    AZW3 (Amazon Kindle Format 8)
    BMP (Bitmap Image)
    CDR (Vector Drawing Image)
    CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile)
    CHM (Microsoft HTML help file)
    CMX (Corel Exchange Image)
    CPP (C++ Source Code File)
    CS (C# Source Code File)
    CSPROJ (C# Project File)
    CSV (Comma Separated Values)
    DAE (Digital Asset Exchange)
    DCM (Digital Image)
    DGN (Drawing file)
    DIB (Device Independent Bitmap)
    DICOM (Digital Imaging & Communications)
    DIF (Data Interchange Format)
    DJVU (Graphics Format)
    DNG (Digital Camera Image)
    DOC (Microsoft Word Binary Format)
    DOCM (Microsoft Word 2007 Marco File)
    DOCX (Office 2007+ Words Document)
    DOT (Microsoft Word Template Files)
    DOTM (Microsoft Word 2007+ Template File)
    DOTX (Microsoft Word Template File)
    DWF (Design Web Format DWF)
    DWG (Proprietary binary files)
    DWT (AutoCAD drawing template file)
    DXF (Drawing Interchange Format)
    E00 (ESRI ArcInfo Interchange)
    EMF (Enhanced Metafile Format)
    EML (Outlook Email Messages)
    EMLX (Apple EMLX Format)
    EPS (Encapsulated PostScript Language)
    EPUB (E-book Format)
    EXIF (Exchangeable Image Format)
    FB2 (FictionBook)
    FBX (3D Format)
    FILEGDB (ESRI File Geodatabase)
    GEOJSON (JSON Based Format)
    GIF (Graphical Interchange Format)
    GLB (3D File Binary Representation)
    GLTF (GL Transmission Format)
    GML (Geography Markup Language)
    GPX (GPS Exchange format)
    HTM (Hypertext Markup Language)
    HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
    ICO (Microsoft Windows Icon)
    ICS (iCalendar)
    IFC (Industry Foundation Classes IFC file format)
    J2K (Wavelet Compressed Image)
    JP2 (JPEG 2000)
    JPEG (JPEG Image)
    JRXML (3D file)
    JT (Jupiter Tessellation File)
    KFX (Amazon Kindle Format 10)
    KML (Keyhole Markup Language)
    KMZ (KML Zipped)
    M4V (Apple Video Container)
    MBOX (Electronic Mail Messages)
    MD (Markdown Language)
    MHTML (Web Page Archive Format)
    MOBI (Open Ebook Format)
    MOV (QuickTime Format)
    MP3 (Digitally Encoded File)
    MPP (Microsoft Project Data File)
    MPT (Microsoft Project Template Files)
    MPX (Microsoft Exchange File Format)
    MSG (Outlook & Exchange Format)
    OBJ (3D File Format)
    ODG (Apache OpenOffice Draw Format)
    ODP (OpenDocument Presentation Format)
    ODS (OpenDocument Spreadsheet File)
    ODT (OpenDocument Text File Format)
    OFT (Outlook Email Templates)
    ONE (Microsoft OneNote Format)
    ONETOC2 (OneNote Table of Contents)
    OSM (Open Street Map)
    OST (Offline Storage Files)
    OTG (OpenDocument Standard)
    OTP (OpenDocument Standard Format)
    OTT (OpenDocument Standard Format)
    PCL (Printer Command Language)
    PDF (Portable Document Format)
    PDFA (Portable Document Format / A)
    PDFE (PDF Based Engineering Files)
    PDFUA (PDF/UA Standard)
    PDFVT (PDF/VT ISO 16612-2)
    PDFX (PDF/X ISO 15930)
    PLT (Vector-based plotter file)
    PLY (Polygon File Format)
    PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
    POT (Microsoft PowerPoint Template Files)
    POTM (Microsoft PowerPoint Template File)
    POTX (Microsoft PowerPoint Template Presentation)
    PPS (PowerPoint Slide Show)
    PPSM (Macro-enabled Slide Show)
    PPSX (PowerPoint Slide Show)
    PPT (Microsoft PowerPoint 97-2003)
    PPTM (Macro-enabled Presentation File)
    PPTX (Open XML presentation Format)
    PSB (Adobe Photoshop File)
    PSD (Adobe Photoshop Native Format)
    PST (Outlook Personal Storage Files)
    RTF (Rich Text Format)
    RVM (AVEVA Plant Design Model)
    SHP (ESRI Shapefile)
    SLN (Visual Studio Solution File)
    SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
    SWF (SWF Format)
    TEX (LaTeX Output Text)
    TIFF (Tagged Image Format)
    TNEF (Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format)
    TSV (Tab-Separated Values)
    TXT (Text Document)
    U3D (Universal 3D)
    VB (Visual Basic Source Code File)
    VCF (Virtual Card Format)
    VDW (Visio Graphics Service file)
    VDX (Microsoft Visio Drawing Format)
    VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language)
    VSD (Microsoft Visio Drawings)
    VSDM (Microsoft Visio Drawing Format)
    VSDX (Microsoft Visio Format)
    VSS (Stencil Files)
    VSSM (Microsoft Visio Stencil files)
    VSSX (Drawing Stencils)
    VST (Vector Image Files)
    VSTM (Microsoft Visio Template Files)
    VSTX (Microsoft Visio Drawing Template)
    VSX (Stencils)
    VTX (Microsoft Visio Drawing Template)
    WAV (Waveform Audio Format)
    WEBP (Raster Web Image)
    WMF (Microsoft Windows Metafile)
    WMV (Advanced Systems Format)
    X (DirectX Model Image)
    X3D (XML based 3D Graphics)
    XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language)
    XER (XER file format)
    XHTML (XML Text Based Markup)
    XLM (Excel Macro File)
    XLS (Excel Binary Format)
    XLSB (Binary Excel Workbook File)
    XLSM (Spreasheet File)
    XLSX (OOXML Excel File)
    XLT (Microsoft Excel Template)
    XLTM (Excel Macro-enabled Template)
    XLTX (Office OpenXML Excel Template)
    XML (Extensible Markup Language)
    XOML (Extensible Object Markup Language)
    XPS (XML Paper Specifications)
    XSLFO (XSL Formatting Objects)
    Create ZIP Archive via C# (Single or Multiple Files and Folders Archive)