For Blender 4.2 and above.

What is Analyze Mesh?

Analyze Mesh is a free Blender Extension for 3D modelers who want to quickly check their mesh topology for quads, tris, ngons and edge poles.

Originally part of Quad Maker, Analyze Mesh is now available for free to provide a quick and easy way to check the topology of any mesh based object in Blender.

Analyze Mesh in Edit Mode

Analyse Mesh in Object Mode

Features

• Simply select the object and click the Analyze Mesh button from the side tab.
• The add-on will give you a snapshot of the total number of vertices, edges, faces, tris, quads, ngons, and poles in the mesh when in Edit or Object mode.
• Once analysed, select the different mesh elements from the panel (when in Edit mode).
• Analyze in Edit or Object modes:
  • In Edit mode, the add-on will analyze the base mesh elements.
  • In Object mode, the add-on will analyze the entire mesh with modifiers included.
• Refresh by clicking the Re-Analyze Mesh button again in order to save on performance.

Using

See the Getting Started section in the Documentation for more information on how to use the add-on.

Please Note!

There are more sophisticated paid for tools available for analyzing mesh topology in Blender, such as MeshAnalyzer Pro.

Questions?

If you have any questions or issues do not hesitate to get in touch by clicking the 'Ask a Question' button on this page or by emailing [email protected].

Documentation

Documentation is at https://analyze-mesh.readthedocs.io/