Create a mesh- No watertight

Question

I have a point cloud that I would like to turn into a triangulated mesh. I am not interested in a watertight model, I just want to create the triangles between the points. Which of the options in Meshlab would be the most appropriate to do that?

Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try any of the following filters under Filters -> Remeshing, Simplification, and Reconstruction

• Delaunay Triangulation
• Marching Cubes (APSS)
• Marching Cubes (RIMLS)
• Surface Reconstruction: Ball Pivoting
• Surface Reconstruction: VCG
• Screened Poisson Surface Reconstruction

All of these have different parameters, except for the first one, which is probably what you want.