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Hi, thank you for maintaining this software.

My question is how to extract faces (in addition to verticies) using scalar fields and "filter by value".

My purpose is to export the reduced mesh to another software (Meshlab) so I can make the texture there.

Note that I found meshlab's Poisson Reconstruction to be less reliable than Cloudcompare's so I want to make the mesh in CC.

The problem is that after generating the mesh using Poisson Reconstruction, the mesh is too big to use in ML and I must remove the excess mesh using scalar fields and "filter by value".

The filtered mesh is an extract of the verticies created by Poisson but it doesn't include the faces.

So I want to know how to extract the faces from the Poisson Reconstruction or add the faces by some other method if possible.

Thank you in advance.

Hum, normally if you use the 'Filter by value' tool directly on the mesh entity (and not on the vertices), the result is a subset of the mesh (i.e. with triangles). And you can export it to PLY, OBJ or STL, so that Meshlab can import it on its side.