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Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by tomtom1337 on Sunday August 02, 2026 @08:14AM (#49143781)
Wow! This looks really cool! Looking forward to playing more with this?
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Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by croemer on Sunday August 02, 2026 @09:05AM (#49144281)
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638:

> Don't have your username be that of your company or project. It creates a feeling of using HN for promotion and of not really participating as a person. You don't have to use your real name, just something to indicate that you're here as a human, not a brand. If you'd like to change your username, email [email protected].

Your projscope website cuts off text on mobile as it's completely unresponsive.

Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by jviaches on Saturday August 08, 2026 @03:11PM (#49224895)
thanks for letting me know. Something wrong with my projscope account so i created this one.

Will look into mobile scalability issue with projscope.com

Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by denpa on Sunday August 02, 2026 @05:59PM (#49148815)
What do you mean by CGAL requiring clean CSG topology? It’s not even a CSG kernel and it supports polygon soups out of the box
Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by DaSHacka on Sunday August 02, 2026 @08:34AM (#49143949)
Wow, just needed something like this literally yesterday, thanks OP.
Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by embedding-shape on Sunday August 02, 2026 @08:53AM (#49144150)
This is pretty cool, and seems to be useful in order to compare various "3D model" generators that are around, would make the comparison a bit easier to make.

Given it runs client-side, could you potentially offer like a CLI as well, or something we could integrate with other things / CI? That'd be a really nifty way of generating these diffs for later inspection.

Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by croemer on Sunday August 02, 2026 @09:06AM (#49144289)
Should be "Show HN"
Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by progbits on Sunday August 02, 2026 @09:09AM (#49144323)
Looks handy. Feature suggestion: locked views so all three viewports rotate together.
Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by twwwt on Sunday August 02, 2026 @09:48AM (#49144684)
Had the same wish after one second of rotating one pane.

Another thing that came to my mind quickly, whether it would be possible that for one object whose dimension was changed, for instance it was enlarged/shrinked in the x axis by x millimeter, to just highlight those x millimeter of difference. Similar for rotation and shift.

Anyway, cool!

Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by jviaches on Saturday August 08, 2026 @03:14PM (#49224919)
will be working on that, thanks!
Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by ionwake on Sunday August 02, 2026 @09:14AM (#49144393)
cool thanks
Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by agys on Sunday August 02, 2026 @09:57AM (#49144764)
A nice feature to add could be a synchronized transform: when rotating one viewport the other two rotate along (optional).
Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by dotjustin on Sunday August 02, 2026 @03:40PM (#49147610)
Quite honestly this is what I expected the default behavior to be. +1
Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by dvh on Sunday August 02, 2026 @10:03AM (#49144818)
- Multi group objs are ignored, I only see first group.

- When uploading same file twice, you should warn about it like meld does (meld says: File /home/foo/Downloads/D_LED_3mm.obj is being compared to itself)

Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by jviaches on Sunday August 09, 2026 @08:12AM (#49230694)
Its fully implemented, please take a look.
Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by sota_pop on Sunday August 02, 2026 @11:20AM (#49145426)
Very cool work! Nice job. Road-map looks good too! I always appreciate client/local-first emphasis. I have been seeing a lot of great in-browser apps coming out via 3js,wasm,etc (THANK YOU LLMs)

With interest in this space you may be interested to check out:

- That Open Company in the BIM industry (not personally affiliated, but admirer). - Fovea ArchVision (also not directly affiliated, but can attest that the team are great people.)

Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by happyPersonR on Sunday August 02, 2026 @11:56AM (#49145693)
Yo this would be cool to have embedded as a PR trigger on GitHub for 3d files

And maybe as a preview option between branches ?

Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by Agingcoder on Sunday August 02, 2026 @04:17PM (#49147887)
Ok so stl here is not standard template library. I was very confused for a minute.
Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by pvillano on Sunday August 02, 2026 @08:05PM (#49149697)
.STL files are the most common file format for 3D printing. STL is short for stereolithography, which is usually abbreviated SLA
Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by zerozerotwo on Sunday August 02, 2026 @05:02PM (#49148271)
Same here. Nothing made sense
Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by simonw on Sunday August 02, 2026 @09:15PM (#49150131)
Suggestion: add more than one demo. The default demo right now is a little un-interesting, I'd love to be able to swap that out for a few other ones that show more complex objects.
Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by pjmlp on Monday August 03, 2026 @03:02AM (#49152177)
I was thinking this would be doing a diff between clang, GCC and MVSC implementations of the C++ STL library.
Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by jviaches on Sunday August 09, 2026 @10:40PM (#49238652)
That would be a very different kind of nightmare. Maybe v3.
Re:Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the brows... by rpunkfu on Monday August 03, 2026 @03:14AM (#49152267)
Would’ve been great to be able to lock/sync orientations on both