I am new to meshlab and am trying to reconstruct an stl file which has a number of issues such as over 700 self-intersecting faces, non-manifold edges and flipped triangles. The part I am trying to fix is a sunglass frame just to give you some perspective. I was able to remove the flipped triangles using Netfabb, which reduced the number of self-intersecting faces. I attempted to fix the rest of the problems by using features within the "Cleaning and Repairing" tab in Meshlab such as remove non-manifold edges and intersecting faces; however, I was unable to fix all problems with the features in the "Cleaning and Repairing" tab alone. Thus I decided to convert the mesh into a point cloud, calculate normals from the "Sampling" tab and try surface reconstruction: poisson. This method gave me a mesh that looked like a big blob instead of the detailed part that I was trying to achieve.
Can anyone please give me a step by step outline of how I can convert the point cloud back into a mesh with surface reconstruction while maintaining the part's dimensional integrity and avoiding self-intersecting faces? Or if you have any other suggestions, I'd be more than happy to listen.
Thank you!
