mesh_tools
- Software
- Navigation and mapping
- Tool
A ROS 2 toolset for handling 3D triangle meshes, with message definitions and RViz plugins to visualize, texture, annotate and label large environment meshes.
Made by Nature Robots, Germany (checked on github.com/naturerobots (opens in a new tab)).
Source on GitHub: github.com/naturerobots/mesh_tools (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 42d0734 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (BSD-3-Clause) at commit 42d0734 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Defines ROS 2 messages for mesh geometry, vertex colors, vertex costs, textures, materials and features, linked by a UUID.
- Provides RViz plugins to display meshes with textures, vertex colors or cost layers, in lighting, material or wireframe modes.
- Includes an interactive tool to set navigation goal poses on a mesh surface for path planning.
- Offers an interactive labeling tool to select connected triangle clusters and assign semantic labels to them.
- Includes a panel to manage clusters, label names and their colors.
- Targets the ROS 2 Humble and Jazzy distributions; the ROS 1 version lives on a separate branch.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 42d0734.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 20 Sept 2026 on main
- Latest release
- None published on GitHub
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
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