Prefered filters for Meshlab

[imoffit]

I was curious what filters people use in meshlab to polish their 3d meshes. The thing I particularly struggle with is filling in very large holes and having the filled in sections be the same color as the surrounding mesh.

Thanks!

[smathermather]

I don’t anymore. For one thing, I think we need to improve the meshes coming out of ODM, so I tend to dive into the processing chain and grab the watertight version of the mesh as here:

3D printing cool scenes

Well, you know it’s been a busy few years when I’ve had a 3D printer for over a year and I am finally getting to printing a real live thing from OpenDroneMap. I have taken other people’s 3D models, spun them around in a browser and printed the results (gorilla skulls, rat skulls and the like). But today, I want to focus on a real object. We’ve had folx show up on this forum now and then interested in printing their models. I am no expert at this process, but I have worked through the minimum st…

And then post-processing I do in a combination of Instant Meshes and Blender, not yet fully documented but started here:

Re-meshing for 3D Printing

In my previous post https://community.opendronemap.org/t/3d-printing-cool-scenes/9617, I cover some quick work I did to squeeze a 3D print out of an OpenDroneMap reconstruction. It’s hacky and uses non-free software, so we go a cut deeper. A couple days ago, stumbled upon Instant Meshes which is super interesting. I thought I would give this a spin as a replacement for that other non-free software I used in my original post. Plus, it’s got a super cool icon: [image] TL;DR: it mostly works. O…

But, there’s a lot of space for learning and experimentation here.

[imoffit]

I personally have tried using blender for webodm meshes but I can never get it to show up in the software. So would you basically recommend an ordinary user like myself to simple just use webodm for producing orthos, dtms, dsms, and point clouds for now until the issues with meshes are fixed?