QTetraMesher 0.8.3 – 10 years birthday!

After a puny 10 years of development the QTetraMesher project has reached version 0.8.3!

Download: QTetraMesher Windows x64 binary build
Source: https://github.com/dennis2society/qtetramesher

Release Notes

• The Windows binary is built with:
  • Visual Studio 2019 Community, x64, Release build
  • CMake >= 3.16
  • Qt 5.15.2
  • CGAL 4.12, https://www.cgal.org/download.html
  • Boost 1.83.0, https://www.boost.org/users/download/
  • QGLViewer 2.9.1, https://github.com/GillesDebunne/libQGLViewer
  • SOFA Framework (git pull 2023-12-15), https://github.com/sofa-framework/sofa
  • Assimp – Asset Importer Library (git pull 2023-10-15), https://github.com/assimp/assimp

Improvements

• Full CMake build! All projects can now be built with CMake. (Pretty easy on Linux, but a PITA on Windows… )
• Significantly improved mesh surface mesh loading + speed:
• Replaced old trimesh2 C library with Assimp library
• New mesh formats available for import
• Fixed surface normal generation (damn.. the old one was so slow… )
• libQGLViewer is now included in the repository

Failed experiments

• quartettetrastuffing is very unstable on meshes more complex than primitives…
• There is now a preliminary but currently deactivated option to use Tetgen tetrahedralization which is disabled, too, because of random errors on Linux… :/

Misc

• Using CMake, building on Linux is pretty easy. There are now dedicated build instructions tested on at least three different distributions: https://qtm.dennis2society.de/build_instructions_linux.html