View volume data with the help of this tool. The Mesh Viewer is an easy-to-use lightweight software for displaying three dimensional models (triangular meshes) from a variety of file formats. It uses OpenGL to render the models.

The software was born under the need for quickly displaying reconstructed triangulated meshes. The Mesh Viewer is based on an idea and an early elementary implementation from Craig Robertson. The current version has been developed by Helmut Cantzler and various contributors.

Triangular meshes can be displayed texture mapped (optional with bilinear filtering), solid or as a wire frame (all lines or just the front lines). The surface normals of the triangles can be displayed optionally. Loaded models can be rotated, translated and scaled (all done with the mouse). The model is lighted by multiple light sources. Viewpoints can be saved. Screenshots of the model can be taken.

Mesh Viewer supports the following 3D file formats:
1. PMesh forma (used at the Vision group of the University of Edinburgh)
2. GTS format (from the Gnu Triangulation Library)
3. Geomview format (only format "OFF" or "COFF")
4. PLY format (only ASCII format)
5. VRML 1.0 format
6. VRML 2.0 format (VRML97)
7. Shallo format
8. Visualisation Toolkit VTK format (ASCII POLYDATA only)
9. Alias Wavefront / Java 3D OBJ format (ASCII polygon data only).

Mesh Viewer should compile and run under all Unix derivatives and Microsoft Windows. It was tested under Linux, Windows XP and Solaris.

Mesh Viewer requires an OpenGL library and a GUI library for displaying and interacting with the OpenGL module. Mesh Viewer can be built with the following three GUI libraries:

The license of this software is Free, you can free download and free use this 3d graphic software.