From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Using MeshLab

Using MeshLab

- [Instructor] For this week's tip, I'm going to teach you about a program called MeshLab. Now we are doing SolidWorks tips and tricks, and MeshLab is obviously not SolidWorks. But a lot of times, you might need to use a tool like MeshLab, if you're working with really big datasets that have, either point clouds or mesh files that are just too big for SolidWorks. And you can pre process your files in MeshLab prior to bringing it into SolidWorks. Let me introduce the program a little bit and just show you the basics for getting a file and opening it up inside of MeshLab. So here is the website here, you can download this freeware software. And this is really powerful software. And you can do a lot of really wild things with some meshes. I'm not an expert in the software, but I do use this software for pre-processing some of the scan data that I work with, to bring it into SolidWorks. So I want to introduce it and just…

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