MeshLab

This is the official repository for the source and the binaries of MeshLab.

MeshLab is an open source, portable, and extensible system for the processing and editing of unstructured large 3D triangular meshes. It is aimed to help the processing of the typical not-so-small unstructured models arising in 3D scanning, providing a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering and converting this kind of meshes. These tools include MeshLab proper, a versatile program with a graphical user interface, and meshlabserver, a program that can perform mesh processing tasks in batch mode, without a GUI.

MeshLab is mostly based on the open source C++ mesh processing library VCGlib developed at the Visual Computing Lab of ISTI - CNR. VCG can be used as a stand-alone large-scale automated mesh processing pipeline, while MeshLab makes it easy to experiment with its algorithms interactively.

MeshLab is available for Windows, MacOSX, and Linux.

Build instructions

MeshLab requires Qt >= 5.9, with script and xmlpatterns as additional packages.

After setting up the Qt environment:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/meshlab
cd src
qmake
make

Then, a meshlab executable can be found inside the distrib folder.

You can also use QtCreator to build meshlab:

Install QtCreator and Qt >= 5.9 with script and xmlpatterns as additional packages;
Open meshlab.pro inside src;
Select your favourite shadow build directory;
Before the build, deactive the QtQuickCompiler option from the qmake call in the project options;
Build meshlab.

A compilation with cmake is also supported.

We provide a set of scripts that allows to compile and deploy meshlab for every platform. You can find these scripts in the install folder.

Structure of the Repository

The MeshLab repository is organized as follows:

distrib: this folder contains a set of prebuilt libraries, shaders and plugins that will be used by MeshLab once it is compiled. Binaries and plugins will be placed in this folder after MeshLab is built, or a copy of this folder will be placed in the chosen shadow build directory. For more details, check the readme file inside the folder;
docs: doxygen scripts for generating MeshLab documentation. For more details, check the readme file inside the folder;
install: in this folder there are a set of platform-dependent script to build and deploy MeshLab. For more details, check the readme file inside the folder;
sample: a set of files (meshes, images) used for tests;
src: this folder contains all the source code of MeshLab, its plugins and the external libraries that it requires. For more details, check the readme file inside the folder;
vcglib: submodule of VCGLib.

License

The Meshlab source is released under the GPL License.

Copyright

   MeshLab
   http://www.meshlab.net
   All rights reserved.

   VCGLib  http://www.vcglib.net                                         o o
   Visual and Computer Graphics Library                            o     o
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   Paolo Cignoni                                                    \/)\/
   Visual Computing Lab  http://vcg.isti.cnr.it                    /\/|
   ISTI - Italian National Research Council                           |
   Copyright(C) 2005-2018                                             \

References

Please, when using this tool, cite the following reference:

Meshlab: an open-source mesh processing tool. P. Cignoni, M. Callieri, M. Corsini, M. Dellepiane, F. Ganovelli, G. Ranzuglia Proceedings of the 2008 Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference, ISBN: 978-3-905673-68-5, pp. 129-136, DOI: 10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/ItalChap/ItalianChapConf2008/129-136

BibTeX format:

@inproceedings {LocalChapterEvents:ItalChap:ItalianChapConf2008:129-136,
booktitle = {Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference},
editor = {Vittorio Scarano and Rosario De Chiara and Ugo Erra},
title = {{MeshLab: an Open-Source Mesh Processing Tool}},
author = {Cignoni, Paolo and Callieri, Marco and Corsini, Massimiliano and Dellepiane, Matteo and Ganovelli, Fabio and Ranzuglia, Guido},
year = {2008},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-905673-68-5},
DOI = {10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/ItalChap/ItalianChapConf2008/129-136}
}

Contacts

Paolo Cignoni (p.cignoni (at) isti.cnr.it)
Guido Ranzuglia (g.ranzuglia (at) isti.cnr.it)

Feedback

For documented and repeatable bugs, feature requests, etc., please use the GitHub issues.

For general questions use StackOverflow.

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