Volume of a 3D Model?

[AlexNoir]

Hey!


Do someone know a free software to calculate the volume of a closed 3D model? Meshlab or Cloudcompare?

Greetings,

Alex

[Godehardt]

Hello,
meshlab calculates the volume, meshmixer does also. There are other free programs like VisCAM View,Geomagic Verify, and GOM Inspect, which calculate volumes.
Best regards, Erhard

[AlexNoir]

Hey! Thank you very much for this extensively answer! If it's that easy with Meshlab wow - but which Filter?

Alex

[ShadowTail]

Meshlab:
use the "Quality, Measure and computation->Compute Geometric Measures" and look in the console window for results (activate layers to see console)

[AlexNoir]

Hey! Tnx - I tried it, but it isn't working with all my models - all models are closed (with David and also extra again with Meshlab after it didn't work first time with the calculation) - all the time is coming something like this:
Mesh Bounding Box Diag 57.657700
Mesh Volume is -1.#IND00
Mesh Surface is 3635.088867
Thin shell barycenter -4.936380 7.150131 -0.431402
Center of Mass is -1.#IND00 -1.#IND00 -1.#IND00
Inertia Tensor is :
| -1.#IND00 -1.#IND00 -1.#IND00 |
| -1.#IND00 -1.#IND00 -1.#IND00 |
| -1.#IND00 -1.#IND00 -1.#IND00 |

BTW - Mesh Surfaces means the m²/dm²/cm²/mm²?

But back to the main point: how came all the time the -1.#IND00?!

Please help 0.0

Alex

[hunkatibor2]

Hi Alex
Mesh Bounding Box Size 41.329559 44.711946 28.581848
Mesh Bounding Box Diag 67.262268
Mesh Volume is 7626.840820
Mesh Surface is 4026.412842
Thin shell barycenter 58.053084 2.384488 42.785698
Center of Mass is 57.532875 0.728266 42.551464
Inertia Tensor is :
| 1216578.125000 43206.312500 26848.904297 |
| 43206.312500 937837.562500 -330153.000000 |
| 26848.904297 -330153.000000 1699865.250000 |
Principal axes are :
| 0.992470 -0.121351 0.016645 |
| 0.119511 0.929604 -0.348646 |
| 0.026836 0.348010 0.937106 |
axis momenta are :
| 1222506.750000 808600.062500 1823174.125000 |

[WalterMo]

Hi Alex,

I have made some tests with my self-scanned objects. Not all work for a volume measurement with MeshLab. Important is during uploading in MeshLab that no warning occurs.

Simply download, for a test, the fine working DAVID OBJ angel (see the attached screen dump).
http://www.david-3d.com/?section=Downloads

Result in cubic millimeter.


Walter

Edit. Some time ago I scanned a small elephant, carved of teakwood:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4291&p=27756#p27756

Weight: 76.5 grams
Specific gravity of teakwood: 0.64 gram per cubic centimeter
So its volume should be 119.5 cubic centimeter

Volume result from MeshLab: 122.8 cubic centimeter. Difference 2.7%.
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