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Its additional possibilities and free availability make it a clear number one.
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It combines a user-friendly interface with all the options needed to repair complex mesh errors. Note: Several software packages contain mesh repair functionalities, such as FreeCAD, SketchUp, 3D Studio Max, and Rhinoceros, as well as online services such as Willit 3D Print, MakePrintable, 3DPrinterOS, SculptGL, and Shapeways.īased on our explorations, the best STL repair tool is Meshmixer. As described in our Meshmixer tutorial, there are several other useful formats such as AMF, Collada, OBJ, and PLY, with specialized qualities for storing material, color, rendering, 3D scanning, and 3D printing information. We recommend saving the STL files in a Binary format since it further reduces file size. The most popular and storage-friendly format is STL (StereoLiThography), which we will use for this article.