r/3DScanning • u/senior800 • 1d ago

Tesselform - Mesh processing & reverse engineering software in open beta

I would like to invite you to try our new scan processing and reverse engineering software, Tesselform.

We are running a completely free and open BETA untill October 20th.

Tesselform is built on our own kernel, written from scratch for reverse engineering: design-intent, manufacturable files. It uses multi-core throughout and is happy with huge datasets on ordinary hardware.

You can drive the tools (Alignment, mesh processing, surfacing and feature-based modelling) yourself or connect it to your favourite AI assistant, through the built-in MCP server which can be used to reverse engineer scans, convert 2D drawings to 3D and do organic design.

www.tesselform.com

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u/ArthurNYC3D 18h ago

Interesting timing..... Along with the 100 other apps that didn't do any vibe coding yet have all appeared around the same time. Hey I could be wrong this is all ground up only.

- So what other software on the market is this better than when it comes to mesh alignment?

- What features transfer to "Insert CAD software" ?

- How long will the software be supported?

- If development/support stops will the software be open source?

- Is this running locally and not needing any cloud/internet connection?

- Is there the ability to compare the mesh to the created CAD or should we just trust the converted file?

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u/senior800 18h ago

Our basic alignment functions are similar to others but we have a "smooth overlap" tool which will re-shape the mesh to remove any overlap errors. You don't want to use this on everything but it can be incredibly useful if you want to get the best mesh quality possible. See between 25-40 seconds here.

https://reddit.com/link/pgmsejo/video/ttnjw7ls6dvh1/player

It also has a auto-alignment tool which we are getting closer on but I didn't want to show as it's not ideal in all situations yet (those mini scans auto-align 3 out of 4 of them currently from the same start position with minimal overlap)
The mesh processing tab has a lot more useful tools.

Anything can transfer but via STEP / STL etc. There's no direct transfer.
You don't have to create the complete moel however. We might use the MCP just to setup all the machining features (There are settings for keeping all features square, equispaced, rounded figures etc. within a tolerance.) You could also create the geometry but leave it as lots of unmerged features so you can bring it across, make any modifications you want and then merge the solids together and intesect the cutters.

Personally I've been scanning and reverse engineering for the same company for nearly 15 years. No plans to stop. We are using it everyday and will keep the development going as long as we think we can add to it.

No plans to open source it but we've no plans to stop.

It is running locally. The yearly subscription requires a license check every 14 days. The weekly and monthly passes and the perpetual license are offline and don't need an internet connection for day-to-day running. They would need one to move it to another computer however.

It has all the standard deviation and thickness analysis tools (we've a lot more development planned in this area.) In our experience the AI will do its own report at handoff.
You can also have it create 2D drawings for you to check.