Overview

Meshmixer is state-of-the-art software for working with triangle meshes.

Features include:

• Drag-and-Drop Mesh Mixing
• 3D Sculpting and Surface Stamping
• Robust Convert-to-Solid for 3D printing
• 3D Patterns and Lattices
• Hollowing (with escape holes!)
• Branching Support Structures for 3D printing
• Automatic Print Bed Orientation Optimization, Layout and Packing
• Advanced selection tools including brushing, surface-lasso, and constraints
• Remeshing and Mesh Simplification/Reducing
• Mesh Smoothing and Free-Form Deformations
• Hole Filling, Bridging, Boundary Zippering, and Auto-Repair
• Plane Cuts, Mirroring, and Booleans
• Extrusions, Offset Surfaces, and Project-to-Target-Surface
• Interior Tubes and Channels
• Precise 3D Positioning with Pivots
• Automatic Alignment of Surfaces
• 3D Measurements
• Stability and Thickness Analysis

Accessing

Cost Recovery Virtual Machine

For prepration of larger jobs, Meshmixer is available via a cost recovery on demand virtual machine in Azure. Pricing is currently $2.50 / hour for each hour the virtual machine is online. Send email to cnf-computing@cornell.edu to request access specifying a start time for access. When finished, send another email to cnf-computing@cornell.edu that you have completed your work so that we can shut down the virtual machine and end charging.

The virtual machine is a NV24s_v3 ... 24 cpu cores, 224GB RAM, 1.5 TB of temporary disk space, and two Tesla M60 GPUs.

To login to the virtual machine and have graphics work properly, you must use the full Windows Remote Desktop client and not web browser access (there is not a full Windows Remote Desktop client for Linux). Note that this client is not the Remote Desktop Connection client that is built into Windows.

Own Computer

Meshmixer can also be installed on your own computer. Download from the Meshmixer website.

Resources

Meshmixer manual on-line