Need just a surface mesh

[sushrut5]

Is there a way to run tetwild to essentially repair and remesh an STL? Do not need the 3D mesh at all and fine with an OBJ output although an STL surface mesh that is water-tight will be highly desirable. What kind of controls on such a mesh are available?

Right now, for the geometries I am interested in, it takes anywhere from 4 to 6 mins to run it fully with almost all default settings and I would like to shorten this time as I don't need/want the 3D mesh. Thanks!

[Yixin-Hu]

Hi,

There's no way to use or modify TetWild to generate a clean surface mesh without generating tetmesh. TetWild is a tetrahedral meshing algorithm. Surface cleanup is just its by-product.

You may try fTetWild (https://github.com/wildmeshing/fTetWild), a faster version of TetWild, to get the result faster.