A Python library for parsing different mesh formats in to a list of points and a list of elements. The element's nodes are identified by indexes into the point list array.

This project uses semantic versioning when versioning the software.

Currently this library supports reading of the following formats:

• stl
• vrml
• vtk

pip install git+https://github.com/ABI-Software/MeshParser.git

from meshparser.parser import MeshParser

# It has some tests to determine the file format, if this fails you can set the format to use manually
# using a second argument 'use_parser'.  The 'use_parser' parameter must have one of the values from {'vtk', 'stl', 'vrml'}.
p = MeshParser()
p.parse('file/to/parse')
# getPoints has an option to get the pared down points, i.e. all repeated points will be removed.
n = p.getPoints()
# getElements has two options, zero_based: returns point indexes that are zero based [false], pared: remove repeated points [false]
e = p.getElements()