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Awesome that this includes a mesh repair project: https://pymeshfix.pyvista.org/

Some slicers only offer Mesh Repair on Windows because they depend on the Printing3DModel API [1]. MeshLab is OSS and powerful, but hard to use [2]

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.graphics.p...

[2] https://www.meshlab.net/

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Looks like PyVista is just one of many similar projects [0] maintained by Kitware[1], a private company focused on scientific computing. Lots of medical domain stuff.

[0] https://www.kitware.com/open-source/

[1] https://www.kitware.com/about/

https://github.com/banesullivan started pyvista as a grad student (IIRC) before he ended up working at kitware.

I've used PyVista extensively for making figures for papers and other projects, but at times one must delve into the lower level VTK api to do things not at all or well exposed at the level of the PyVista API. Overall its a good project and I hope it continues to improve and expand access to powerful stuff in VTK minus the segfaults I occasionally run into when attempting to do so from python...

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