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rapier3d-meshloader

STL file loader for the 3D rapier physics engine

11 breaking releases

Uses new Rust 2024

new 0.33.0 Jun 5, 2026
0.13.0 Jan 9, 2026
0.12.0 Nov 21, 2025
0.8.0 Jul 24, 2025
0.3.0 Nov 15, 2024

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Used in 3 crates (2 directly)

Apache-2.0

1.5MB
28K SLoC

Mesh loader for the Rapier physics engine

Rapier is a set of 2D and 3D physics engines for games, animation, and robotics. The rapier3d-meshloader crate lets you create a shape compatible with rapier3d and parry3d (the underlying collision-detection library) from different file formats, see the following features list:

  • stl: support .stl files
  • collada: support .dae files
  • wavefront: support .obj files

Resources and discussions

  • Dimforge: See all the open-source projects we are working on! Follow our announcements on our blog.
  • User guide: Learn to use Rapier in your project by reading the official User Guides.
  • Discord: Come chat with us, get help, suggest features, on Discord!
  • NPM packages: Check out our NPM packages for Rapier, if you need to use it with JavaScript/Typescript.

Please make sure to familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct and our Contribution Guidelines before contributing or participating in discussions with the community.

Dependencies

~6.5MB
~126K SLoC