MeshLab

2023.12 3D mesh editor for Windows

Fernando Ortega

Software tool to edit and manipulate 3D mesh models for various applications such as 3D printing, game development and more.

Extensible system for processing unstructured 3D triangular meshes, with a wide variety of filters, a lighting system - Screenshot of MeshLab
Create 3D meshes and human faces - Screenshot of MeshLab
A Free (GPL) Design & photography program for Windows - Screenshot of MeshLab
A free processing software system for 3D triangular meshes - Screenshot of MeshLab
Processing and editing 3D triangular meshes - Screenshot of MeshLab
Aligning - Screenshot of MeshLab

A 3D system of editing triangular meshes that can clean, heal, render images like X3D, OBJ, STL, PTX and other formats.

MeshLab is a free and open source 3D editor app developed by Paolo Cignoni for Windows. It's pretty reliable.

The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below. We've also created some screenshots of MeshLab to illustrate the user interface and show the overall usage and features of this 3D editing program.

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A 3D system of editing triangular meshes that can clean, heal, render

MeshLab is an open-source 3D mesh processing software application that allows users to edit, clean, and convert 3D meshes.

The tool can be used for 3D printing or digital sculpting, as it features a powerful set of tools for mesh editing, cleaning, and texturing. The clean user interface makes it easy to use, allowing users to quickly get up and running with their 3D mesh editing projects. It includes a number of different tools for mesh selection, mesh optimization, mesh conversion, mesh filtering, mesh texturing, and mesh animation.

MeshLab 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.

This project is actively supported by the 3D-CoForm project.

Features of MeshLab

  • 3D Filtering: Mesh cleaning, smoothing and data transfer.
  • 3D Reconstruction: Incremental, multi-view and global.
  • Colorization: Per-vertex color and texture mapping.
  • Editing: Vertex, face and edge manipulation.
  • Export: PLY, STL, OFF, OBJ, 3DS, COLLADA, VRML, DXF, GTS, U3D, IDTF, X3D.
  • Geometric Modeling: Extrusion, offsetting and rotation.
  • Import: PLY, STL, OFF, OBJ, 3DS, COLLADA, PTX, V3D, PTS, APTS, XYZ, GTS, TRI, ASC, X3D, X3DV, VRML, ALN.
  • Measurements: Quality and curvature analysis.
  • Mesh Alignment: Point-based and surface-based registration.
  • Mesh Comparison: Difference, overlap and similarity.
  • Mesh Processing: Extraction, slicing and stitching.
  • Multiresolution: Adaptive simplification and multi-resolution editing.
  • Point Cloud Processing: Registration, normalization and fusion.
  • Rendering: Shaders, textures and materials.
  • Texturing: Parameterization and unwrapping.

Compatibility and License

MeshLab is a free application released under the GPLv3 license on Windows from 3D design. With software released under the open source GPLv3 license, anybody can download, install, run and distribute the software with little in terms of restrictions. The latest version we have is 2023.12 and is available to download here.

What version of Windows can MeshLab run on?

MeshLab can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It's only available as a 64-bit download.

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  2. Free 3D Design
  3. Open source and GPL software
  4. 3D Editing Software
MeshLab has been picked by our editors as very good.
MeshLab has been tested for viruses and malware.
We have tested MeshLab 2023.12 against malware with several different programs. We certify that this program is clean of viruses, malware and trojans.