Mesh SVG Tool
Renders 3D meshes as wireframe SVG with hidden edge elimination, built for pen plotters.
- Output
- Plotter-ready SVG
- Hidden edges
- Eliminated
A command-line tool that projects a 3D mesh to clean 2D line work and writes it out as SVG. The output target is a pen plotter, which changes the problem: a rasterizer can overdraw and let the depth buffer sort it out, but a pen physically draws every line it is given. Hidden edges have to actually be removed before the file is written.
What it does
- Perspective projection with optional back-face culling
- Hidden surface and edge elimination
- Configurable output units — mm, cm, in, px — because a plotter cares about physical dimensions, not pixels
The output
The vector above is the tool’s own output. The photograph at the top is that same file drawn as a physical object: the Utah teapot, in pen on paper, plotted by a Creality Ender-3 V3 KE converted to hold a pen. It is the one project here whose final artifact is a physical object rather than a framebuffer.