HOW TO MERGE IN MESHLAB

Chris K and Hassebrook 2-14-2010

MESHLAB

1. Open all the STL files by using Cntrl key with mouse selection.

2. Use the A for align symbol.

3. Select the primary patch and glue in place.

4. Close eye on all others except the one you want to merge.

5. Use Point alignment to merge and I think the asterisk means that it is glued.

6. Repeat step 4 until all patches are glued.

7. Exit Alignment and Filter-Layer and Attribute Management-Flatten Visible Layers

8. Save result in Ply or STL. Use Ply if you want to make it water tight with poisson method.

POISSON

1. Use 3dconverter.exe to convert Ply to npts format

2. Using the DOS command window run PoissonRecon32.exe as

PoissonRecon32 --in filename.npts --out fileout.ply --solverDivide 10

Note: You can try the solverDivide from 0.10 to 10 for different resulotions

(will output a .ply file)

Figure 1: Watertight merge of baby doll scans.

DOWNLOADS

Meshlab -->http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/

3dconverter -->http://web.t-online.hu/karpo/

MERGE WITH TEXTURE