Mesh

Articles on building, exporting, and post-processing the polygonal mesh model — Metashape's primary 3D output for non-tiled workflows.

For Metashape's own definitions, see the glossary. For the current Python API surface, see Metashape Python API Reference version 2.3.1, especially Metashape.Chunk.buildModel, Metashape.Chunk.exportModel, and Metashape.Model.

Articles

• Mesh surface types: Arbitrary vs Height field, and the source-data choice
• How Metashape computes vertex normals on model export

Coverage

This section is being built incrementally.

If you are looking for guidance the official Metashape user manual already covers well, please consult that first — see the official documentation.