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檢視完整 README ↗Anyone who prints a lot ends up with folders full of files called Body1.stl,
final_v3_fixed.3mf and pack.zip. A normal file manager shows a generic icon for each of
them, so you open model after model in the slicer just to find the right one.
Meshgrove shows those folders as a gallery with a rendered preview of every model. That includes the models inside ZIP/7z/RAR packs and the plate pictures your slicer stored in 3MF projects. It also gives you what a model collection needs: an instant search across the whole library, tags and notes, favourites, collections and print lists, a log of what you printed, a duplicate finder, a print-bed check, and a one-click hand-over to your slicer.
What makes it different from other model managers:
| Area | What you get |
|---|---|
| Gallery | Thumbnails for STL, 3MF, STEP, OBJ, PLY, glTF/GLB, G-code, images, PDFs and readmes; folder and archive tiles show a 2×2 mosaic of what is inside (optionally also models from subfolders on disk, fading through them); tiles or a sortable list with the columns you choose; resizable tiles (slider in the status bar, growing smoothly towards the pointer); sort by name, date, size or type; "models and G-code only"; "include subfolders" (all files below a folder in one grid); multi-selection |
| Panes | Places, files, preview and info are panes: drag a header to move one, drop it on an edge to split or on another header to stack; the dividers resize them; Lock the panes in the settings keeps them where they are |
| Hover turntable | Point at a model tile and the model spins in place. Drag to turn it yourself, and turn the wheel while dragging to zoom |
| 3D viewer | In the side panel, or double-click a model for a window of its own (resizable, several at once, with "open in slicer"), or press Space for a large preview over the window (just the model until you click ☰); smoother edges and optional studio lighting for both; what a double-click does can be changed (model window, large preview, slicer, mesh editor or the default app); orbit, pan and zoom with a fixed pivot (turning never shifts the model); standard views (front, back, left, right, top, bottom, angled); point-to-point measuring in mm; picture export as a 2048 px PNG |
| 3D mouse | Navigate the 3D views with a 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse / SpaceNavigator or a DIY 3D mouse (anything that reports as a HID multi-axis controller; Linux reads /dev/hidraw directly, Windows and macOS use HID): twist or tilt to turn the model, push to pan, push forward/back to zoom, left button resets the view, right button shows the next standard view; a 3D picture of the mouse in the settings follows the real knob; per-axis speed and inversion, dead zone, a choice of what each movement does, and a calibration that finds out which axis is which |
| 3MF projects | Embedded slicer plate pictures (Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer, Anycubic, Elegoo, Creality Print, PrusaSlicer); click a plate picture to see that plate in 3D; multi-colour: filament colours per object and part, painted models (multi-material painting) and 3MF material colours in the viewer and in rendered previews; filament swatches on tiles and in the details; title, designer and application from the metadata |
Folder tiles show what is inside. Every folder and archive gets a mosaic of its first models, so you can navigate by looking instead of reading names.
Models in their colours. Multi-colour 3MF projects show the filament of every part and their painted areas, plain 3MF files their material colours, and OBJ, PLY and glTF their vertex colours and textures. Tiles get a dot per filament; the details list slot and material.
Favourites, collections and print lists. A print list for a market stall: every model with
the copies done of those needed (1/3), finished ones in green at the end, tags in their
colours, and a 150 MB lithophane in the viewer. The sidebar holds the favourites, print
lists and collections (hand-picked or a saved search), and the tags in groups.
The list view. The same files as a table, with dimensions, tags, favourites and the print log at a glance. Click a column title to sort by it, right-click it to choose the columns.
One search for the whole library. Here body finds every model with "body" in its name,
from four different folders.
Every model in a window of its own. Double-click a model to open it next to the gallery, as large as you like and with the same tools. Here it measures a coaster holder: click two points on the surface to get the distance in mm, with the difference along each axis.
Duplicate finder. Exact copies and identical geometry, grouped, with a suggestion which copy to keep and one click to move the others to the trash.
Your own AI, if you want it. Ask the chat about @ references (files, folders, tags, a
search); it answers with links to the models, and what it would change waits as a card.
Nothing changes before you say so. Suggestions from the chat, the one-click actions or an MCP assistant wait in the review, old → new; anything accepted can be undone in the history.
An inbox for new deliveries. New files grouped by the folder or ZIP they came in, copies of known files counted, possible printing problems marked; ✧ Sort in suggests tags.
Several printers and a printability check. Which printers a model fits on, and what the check found: open or non-manifold edges, several parts, suspicious sizes.
Status: Meshgrove is young. Linux (developed and used daily on Fedora/Nobara with KDE Plasma on Wayland) is the main platform. The Windows and macOS builds are new. They are built and tested automatically, but have seen little real-world use so far. Please report problems.
Every release has ready-made packages, all with STEP previews. Nothing needs to be built:
| System | Download |
|---|---|
| Windows 10/11 (x64) | Meshgrove-<version>-windows-x64-setup.exe (installer) or …-windows-x64-portable.zip |
| macOS 11 or newer (Apple Silicon and Intel) | Meshgrove-<version>-macos-universal.dmg |
| Ubuntu 24.04 / 26.04, Debian 13 | meshgrove_<version>-1_<release>_amd64.deb |
| Fedora 44 | meshgrove-<version>-1.fc44.x86_64.rpm |
| Any other Linux (x86_64) | Meshgrove-<version>-x86_64.AppImage |
Download the package for your release and install it:
sudo apt install ./meshgrove_<version>-1_ubuntu24.04_amd64.deb # Ubuntu, Debian
sudo dnf install ./meshgrove-<version>-1.fc44.x86_64.rpm # Fedora
The packages use your system's libarchive and OpenCascade. They add the menu entry, the icon,
the model/step file type and the thumbnailer for Dolphin
and other file managers. Start Meshgrove from your application menu, or run meshgrove
(optionally with a folder or file: meshgrove ~/3D-Models). Systems based on a supported
release take its package, e.g. Linux Mint 22 the one for Ubuntu 24.04. A package only installs
on the release it was made for; elsewhere, use the AppImage. Remove Meshgrove with
sudo apt remove meshgrove or sudo dnf remove meshgrove.
chmod +x Meshgrove-<version>-x86_64.AppImage
./Meshgrove-<version>-x86_64.AppImage
The AppImage brings everything it needs, STEP support included, and runs on x86_64 distributions with glibc 2.35 or newer (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 and everything newer). It adds no menu entry by itself (tools like Gear Lever or AppImageLauncher do that) and no file-manager thumbnails; for those, use a package or the source build.
Building takes a few minutes and works on any distribution.
Install Rust and the libraries:
| Distribution | Command |
|---|---|
| Fedora / Nobara | sudo dnf install rust cargo gcc-c++ libarchive-devel opencascade-devel poppler-utils |
| Debian / Ubuntu | sudo apt install cargo g++ pkg-config libarchive-dev libxkbcommon-dev libwayland-dev libocct-data-exchange-dev poppler-utils |
| Arch / Manjaro | sudo pacman -S rust gcc libarchive opencascade poppler |
OpenCascade (version 7.5 or newer) is optional. Without it everything works except STEP previews. poppler is optional too and only provides PDF previews. If your distribution's Rust is older than 1.95 (Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13), install a current one with rustup.
Build and install for your user (no root needed):
git clone https://github.com/DonDavis-vibe/MeshGrove.git
cd MeshGrove
packaging/install.sh
This builds release binaries and puts them in ~/.local/bin. It also adds the menu entry,
the icon, the model/step file type and the thumbnailer in ~/.local/share.
Update later with git pull && packaging/install.sh. Remove it with
packaging/install.sh --uninstall. Your settings, index and cache are kept; see
Settings and files on disk if you want to delete them too.
Meshgrove-<version>-windows-x64-setup.exe from the
releases and run it. Windows
SmartScreen may warn because the program is not signed: choose More info → Run anyway.pdftoppm.exe is on your PATH.Prefer not to install? Meshgrove-<version>-windows-x64-portable.zip holds the same programs:
unpack it anywhere and start meshgrove.exe.
Meshgrove-<version>-macos-universal.dmg from the
releases. It runs natively on Apple
Silicon and Intel Macs with macOS 11 or newer.xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Meshgrove.app once.brew install poppler.+ / -, or the slider in the status bar or the
View menu. The tiles grow smoothly, and the one under the pointer stays where it is.2×, 3× … at the top right when the
library holds duplicates of this file, and the file's tags below it (as pills or dots); at the
bottom right the print bed check (↻ angle or ✕), ★ for favourites and the print state (✓2
printed twice, ✗ last print failed, on a print list the copies done of those needed); ⚠ 🖨
on G-code sliced for another printer. Settings → Tiles shows a sample tile: drag its badges
into other corners or out of sight, and choose how tags, filaments, the check and the name look.The right panel shows the selected model in 3D. Double-click a model (or press Enter) to open it in a window of its own: it can be made as large as the screen, several models can be open side by side, each with its own camera, and the window has the same tools, the model's facts and buttons to open it in the slicer or the mesh editor. Esc or the close button closes it.
| Action | Mouse |
|---|---|
| Turn | Drag with the left button |
| Move (pan) | Drag with the right or middle button |
| Zoom | Mouse wheel |
| Reset the view | Double-click |
The camera always turns around the centre of the model at a fixed distance, so the model never jumps or zooms while you turn it.
The buttons above the view:
47.2 mm (ΔX 3.1 · ΔY 5.4 · ΔZ 46.8)). A third click starts a new measurement. Click Measure again to leave
the mode. Points snap to the real surface; the model is loaded into memory once for this.Pictures/Meshgrove (on Linux ~/Bilder/Meshgrove or ~/Pictures/Meshgrove,
depending on your language). This is useful for documentation, sales listings or chats.Multi-plate 3MF projects (Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer, Anycubic Slicer Next) show the pictures of all plates below the facts. Click a plate picture to show that plate in the viewer.
Multi-colour 3MF projects show their colours in the viewer, the hover turntable and the previews Meshgrove renders itself:
paint_color / mmu_segmentation) is decoded
into the painted areasbasematerials, colorgroup), as CAD
programs write themTiles of slicer projects show a dot per filament colour, and the details list the filaments with their slot number and material.
The Info pane (below the viewer unless you move it) shows:
With several files selected, the panel shows how many and their total size. Tags and the note then apply to all of them.
Library folders are the folders Meshgrove indexes. Add as many as you like (sidebar or Settings → Library folders). The index stores names, sizes, dates, dimensions, triangle counts, content fingerprints, tags and notes. It is kept current automatically: changes are noticed through the operating system's file notifications, and a quick check runs in regular intervals as a safety net.
Library search: select the 📚 scope next to the search field (or press Ctrl+Shift+F) and type. Results come from all library folders at once.
| You type | Finds |
|---|---|
dragon | files whose name, folder path or note contains "dragon" (case-insensitive) |
castle tower | files containing both words, anywhere |
"castle tower" | the exact phrase |
ext:3mf (also type: / typ:) | only 3MF files; works with stl, step, obj, ply, glb, zip, pdf, png … |
tag:painted | only files with that tag |
tag:"to print" | tags with spaces |
is:fav | favourites (also is:favourite, is:favorit) |
is:printed, is:unprinted, is:failed | printed at least once, never printed (models and G-code only), newest print failed |
passt:"Kobra S1" (also fits:) | fits on that printer (G-code: sliced for it) |
is:zugross (also is:toobig), is:problem | fits on none of your printers; possible printing problems |
is:neu (also is:new), is:ohne-tags (also is:untagged) | waiting in the inbox; models and G-code without tags |
list:market (also liste:) | files on the list "market" |
dragon ext:stl tag:painted | all conditions combined |
Right-click a search result → Show in folder jumps to the folder containing it. ✕ Close search (or Esc in the field) returns to the folder.
The sidebar's TAGS section lists every tag with its count, grouped into themes, print properties, state and your own. Click one to search for it; Ctrl+click adds it to the tags searched for, or takes it out again. Save as collection in the search bar keeps a search as a collection that stays current.
Rescan folder: the index normally follows every change by itself. If something was missed, for example files copied while Meshgrove was closed onto a drive that another system changed, right-click a library folder in the sidebar or its tile → Rescan folder. Meshgrove reads that folder and everything below it again and says what changed; only changed files are hashed again. F5 re-reads the current folder.
painted ✕). With several files selected, chips show
how many of them carry the tag (painted (2/5)).The sidebar's LISTS section holds three kinds of lists. All of them hold files of the library and, like tags, follow the file's content, so moving or renaming a file keeps it on its lists.
tag:garden ext:3mf) and click Save as
collection above the results. It then always shows the current results.1/3, turning green when all
copies are done, and finished files sink to the end. The sidebar shows how many are still open.Create a list with + New list …, or right-click files → Add to list → type a new name. The context menu also takes files off the shown list. Right-click a list in the sidebar to rename or delete it (the files stay where they are), or for print lists:
; as separator in German).✓ Log as printed and ✗ Log as failed (context menu, the Printing row in the Info pane,
or the buttons in a model window) record a print with its date. The Info pane then says
Printed 2×, last on 12.10.2026 or Last print failed, and ↶ Undo takes back the newest
entry. Tiles show ✓2 in green or a red ✗. View → Print state shows only what is not
printed yet, what was printed, or what failed last time; the search knows is:printed,
is:unprinted and is:failed. Models and G-code have a print state; other files do not.
G-code files (.gcode, .gco, .g) get a preview like models:
The Info pane lists what the slicer wrote into the file: slicer and version, the printer, print
time, filament in grams and metres with material and colour, the number of layers and the layer
height, nozzle and filament cost (in the currency of your slicer profile). When a file was sliced
for none of your printers (see Printers and the bed check), the printer is shown in
orange and the tile gets a small ⚠ 🖨 badge, so a file for the wrong machine does not end up on
the SD card. G-code counts as printable: it has a print log and passes Models and G-code only.
A double-click opens the file in its default app, usually the slicer's G-code viewer.
Readmes, licences and notes (.txt, .md, .markdown, .nfo, and README, LICENSE,
COPYING without an extension) show the beginning of their first page on the tile. Selected,
the preview pane shows the whole text: Markdown with headings, lists, tables and links (they
open in your browser), .nfo files in a fixed-width font for their ASCII art, everything else
as wrapped text. Select a folder and the preview pane shows its readme (or else its licence),
with a button to open it. Model packs from Thingiverse and similar sites usually bring one, with
the designer, the licence and print tips.
Meshgrove compares every model's size with the build volume of each of your printers:
Settings → Printer lists your printers. On the first start Meshgrove takes every printer set up in Anycubic Slicer Next, OrcaSlicer, Bambu Studio and PrusaSlicer: the selected one, your own profiles and the models picked in their setup wizards, following profiles that inherit from system profiles. Add more with ＋, edit or remove them, or enter one by hand (name, build volume, nozzle, materials). The ● marks the main printer, named first.
G-code shows the printer it was sliced for; a ⚠ appears only when that is none of your
printers. In the search, passt:"Kobra S1" (also fits:) finds what fits on that printer and
G-code sliced for it, is:zugross (also is:toobig) what fits on none.
Every model (STL, 3MF, OBJ, PLY, glTF) is checked once, while its thumbnail is made or, for files already in the cache and very large meshes, in the background while nothing else needs the disk:
Results show as ⚠ on the tile, with the reasons in its tooltip, and as a Check row in the info
pane (✔ closed · 1 part · 41.2 cm³). is:problem finds every model with something to look at,
including those too big for every printer. The check belongs to the file content, so copies
share it.
Files whose content Meshgrove did not know before come into the inbox: the sidebar shows 📥 Inbox (n) once something arrived. What is in a library when it is searched for the first time does not count as new, so the inbox starts empty.
The inbox groups the new files by the drop they came with: the topmost new folder, or the archive, such as a customer's ZIP or a model pack. Each group says how many files are new, how many are copies of models the library already had, since when, and how many have possible printing problems. Sort the files (tags, lists), then click ✓ Done for the group, right-click a file for ✓ Done, or ✓ All done. Tagging alone does not take a file out of the inbox.
is:neu (also is:new) finds the files waiting in the inbox, is:ohne-tags (also is:untagged)
models and G-code without tags. Settings → Library → Inbox switches the inbox off.
Click Duplicates (n) in the sidebar. Meshgrove groups:
Groups are sorted by wasted space. The ★ Keep badge marks the suggested copy: one that is
not inside an archive, then the oldest, then the one with the shortest path; to keep another
copy, point at it and click ☆ Keep. Move all but ★ to the trash cleans up a group after a
confirmation. Once you have looked through them, tick the groups where the choice is right (or
All suggestions are fine) and Clean up selected clears them all with one confirmation.
Tiles everywhere in the gallery show a 2× / 3× badge for files that have duplicates.
Meshgrove brings no AI of its own and is off by default. If you use an AI assistant that speaks the Model Context Protocol – Claude Desktop, Claude Code, LM Studio, Cursor, VS Code and others – it can work with your library: search it ("all garden models under 2 hours that fit on the A1 mini"), look at new customer files, and suggest tags, notes or print lists. Nothing changes until you accept it in Meshgrove, and accepted changes can be undone.
Set up:
--local..bak first. Restart the assistant. Any other assistant:
Set up by hand gives the entry to copy.The assistant starts meshgrove-mcp itself; Meshgrove need not be running. It sees only the
libraries you opened to it, gets ids like Garten/Rankhilfe/rose.stl instead of your folder
paths (the full path only when it asks about one file, to hand it to a slicer or a printer
server), and never the model files themselves. Ready-made tasks come with it: eingang-
einordnen (sort the inbox), druckliste-zusammenstellen (put together a print list) and
tags-aufraeumen (clean up tags) and ordner-aufraeumen (tidy up a folder).
Review: suggestions wait in Meshgrove. The ✧ button in the toolbar shows how many; it opens the review, where each batch shows what was suggested for which file: tags to add (✓ to keep, tags the library does not have yet marked new), tags to remove, notes, new lists. Untick a file or click a tag to leave it out (the tick at the title covers the whole batch), then Accept selected, Accept all or Discard. Accepting a batch for the inbox also takes its files out of the inbox. Tags and notes belong to the content, so they also reach identical copies; the review says when. Settings → AI & MCP → Accept suggestions automatically skips the review for new suggestions of AI apps and one-click actions; moves always wait.
History: Review → History lists what was accepted. ↶ Undo takes back exactly those changes, leaving what you changed by hand since; ↷ Redo applies them again. Settings → AI & MCP also shows the access log – which assistant looked at what, and when – and Delete AI data removes all open suggestions, the log and the chat conversations.
AI chat (your own endpoint): in Settings → AI & MCP → Your own endpoint enter an
OpenAI-compatible service you run or use – Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, OpenAI, OpenRouter –
with a model and, if needed, a key (kept in the system keyring). Test connection lists the
models. The AI chat pane then appears next to Info: ask about your library, and type @ to
add files, folders, tags, lists, printers, the inbox or a search (@tag:garden fits:mini) as
references. Answers name files as clickable references; what the AI looked up is folded below.
The Review | Automatic switch decides whether its tags, notes and lists go to the review
first or are applied right away; the ↶ arrow on your message takes back everything changed in
answer to it. A cloud service sees only the libraries opened to cloud AI, and before the first
message Meshgrove shows what goes out. Conversations stay on your computer.
One-click actions work with small local models too, as they need no tool calling: ✧ Sort
in in the inbox (per group or all) suggests tags, ✧ Suggest tags in the context menu does it
for the selection, ✧ next to the tag field offers tags to click, and + New list … → ✧ Or
describe turns "gifts under 2 h for the A1 mini" into a print list (print times come from
G-code, also from one of the same name next to the model). The results wait in the review and
appear as a card in a new conversation to ask about. ✧ Mention in chat puts the selection into
the message field; Copy as AI reference gives meshgrove: references for an assistant over MCP.
Moving and renaming: the assistant and the chat can suggest moving or renaming files, archives or folders within their library. That always stays a suggestion, also in automatic mode: the review shows old → new and which folders would be made. Accepting moves them on disk without ever overwriting anything – a place taken by then is skipped. Tags, notes, lists and thumbnails go along, nothing is computed again. The history takes it back as long as the files are unchanged; folders made for it go again when empty. Files inside archives stay where they are.
On the command line, meshgrove-mcp setup does the same (--dry-run shows it first,
--client NAME picks one), meshgrove-mcp remove takes the entries out again, and
meshgrove-mcp --print-config claude-desktop (or claude-code, lm-studio, cursor, vscode,
with --local if needed) prints one. With the AppImage the command is Meshgrove.AppImage mcp.
Plugins add tools to Meshgrove, for example Bingrove, a generator for Gridfinity drawer inserts.
A plugin is one .wasm file for every system and runs sealed off. It may do nothing until you
allow it in Settings → Plugins, and what it makes comes in as one change you can undo.
Installing, granting and writing plugins: docs/plugins.md.
Open in slicer (context menu, or the button below the facts in the Info pane and in a model window, next to the print bed check): opens the selected models, several at once if you like (STL, 3MF, STEP and OBJ; the slicers do not open PLY and glTF). Files inside archives are extracted to a cache folder first. Meshgrove finds these slicers automatically:
| System | Detected |
|---|---|
| Linux | Anycubic Slicer Next (in ~/opt/AnycubicSlicer), OrcaSlicer, PrusaSlicer (system package or Flatpak), Bambu Studio (Flatpak) |
| Windows | Anycubic Slicer Next, OrcaSlicer, Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer in Program Files or the per-user Programs folder |
| macOS | Anycubic Slicer Next, OrcaSlicer, Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer in /Applications or ~/Applications |
If the slicer is already open, the files go into that window instead of a new one: Meshgrove hands them to Anycubic Slicer Next and OrcaSlicer over D-Bus on Linux, and starts PrusaSlicer in its single-instance mode. Only when no window is open does a new one start. The status bar says which happened. (On macOS the system passes files to a running app anyway; on Windows a new window opens for now.)
Any other slicer (Cura, Simplify3D, ElegooSlicer, …) can be set in Settings → Slicer: give it a name, the program and optionally a working folder.
Open in the mesh editor (context menu, or the button next to Open in slicer): opens the selected models in a mesh editor or CAD program to repair or change them. Meshgrove finds these automatically:
| System | Detected |
|---|---|
| Linux | FreeCAD, Blender, MeshLab (system package, Snap or Flatpak) |
| Windows | Autodesk Fusion, FreeCAD, Blender, MeshLab, Meshmixer |
| macOS | Autodesk Fusion, FreeCAD, Blender, MeshLab, Meshmixer in /Applications or ~/Applications |
Blender only opens its own files, so Meshgrove starts it with a short import script: an empty scene in millimetres with the models (STL, OBJ, PLY, glTF) in it. FreeCAD and the others get the files directly. Any other program can be set in Settings → Mesh editor.
Copy (Ctrl+C): puts the selected files on the clipboard as real files. Paste them into Dolphin, Explorer or Finder, into many slicers, or into a chat. Archive members are extracted first. puts the paths as text instead.
Double-click an archive to browse it like a folder, including subfolders inside the archive. Every model, image and PDF inside gets a preview. The archive's tile shows a mosaic of its contents. Archives are indexed like folders, so the library search, tags, notes and the duplicate finder include their contents. Archives are never modified. Solid 7z/RAR archives are unpacked once per visit, not once per file.
Delete or right-click → Move to trash moves the selected files to the system trash (the freedesktop trash on Linux, the Recycle Bin on Windows, the Trash on macOS) after a confirmation. You can restore them from there. Deleting is not possible for files inside archives, and on Linux Meshgrove detects read-only mounts (such as an NTFS drive mounted read-only) and disables the action with an explanation.
user-data-YYYY-MM-DD.json in the backup folder and
keeps the newest seven.
Settings → Back up tags, notes & lists → Open folder shows them.meshgrove-tags-notes-YYYY-MM-DD.json in your Documents
folder. The file is readable JSON and lists, for each fingerprint, the paths where those files
were.The .deb and .rpm packages and install.sh register a freedesktop thumbnailer, so Dolphin,
the KDE and GTK file dialogs and other file managers show the same previews for STL, 3MF,
STEP, OBJ, PLY, glTF and G-code files. In
Dolphin, enable them once: Settings → Configure Dolphin → Interface → Previews. Tick the
3D-model entries if they are listed, and raise Skip previews for local files above for big
models. Then reopen the folder. The thumbnailer shares Meshgrove's cache, so files you have
already seen in the app show up instantly.
Ctrl means ⌘ Cmd on macOS.
| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| ← → ↑ ↓, Home, End | Move the selection |
| Enter | Open the selected folder or archive; a model in its own window (or as set for double-click); other files in their default app |
| Esc (in a model window) | Close the window |
| Backspace, Alt+↑ | Parent folder |
| Alt+←, Alt+→, mouse buttons 4 / 5 | Back, forward |
| Space | Large preview of the selected model (Esc or Space closes it; ☰ shows its tools) |
| F5 | Reload the folder and read it into the index again |
| Ctrl+D | Favourite on or off |
| Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2 | Tiles, list |
| Ctrl+A | Select all shown files |
| Ctrl+click, Shift+click | Toggle a file, select a range |
| Ctrl+C | Copy the selected files to the clipboard |
| Ctrl+V | Paste the files on the clipboard into the folder shown |
| Ctrl+X | Cut the selection: the next paste moves it |
| Delete | Move the selection to the trash (with confirmation) |
| Ctrl+F | Filter the current folder |
| Ctrl+Shift+F | Search the whole library |
| Esc (in the search field) | Clear the search |
Ctrl + + / -, Ctrl + wheel | Tile size (row height in the list) |
| Ctrl+, | Settings |
| Mouse on a model tile | Hover: spin · drag: turn · wheel while dragging: zoom |
| Mouse on a pane header | Drag: move the pane (not when locked in the settings) |
| Mouse in the 3D viewer | Left drag: turn · right/middle drag: pan · wheel: zoom · double-click: reset |
| Type | Extensions | Preview | 3D viewer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STL | .stl | ✔ | ✔ | Binary and ASCII; binary files that start with "solid" are recognised correctly |
| 3MF | .3mf | ✔ | ✔ | Embedded slicer picture first (blank plates are skipped), otherwise rendered; components, transforms, units, Production extension (p:path), multiple build plates, filament, paint and material colours |
| STEP | .step, .stp | ✔ | ✔ | Needs the OpenCascade helper meshgrove-step-mesher; tessellated once, then cached |
| OBJ | .obj | ✔ | ✔ | Colours from the .mtl next to it (diffuse colour or texture) and vertex colours; read as millimetres like the slicers do |
| PLY | .ply | ✔ | ✔ | ASCII and binary; vertex and face colours (scans, MeshLab); point clouds without faces are not shown |
| glTF | .glb, .gltf | ✔ | ✔ | All meshes of the scene with base colours, vertex colours and textures; external buffers and textures are read from next to the file. glTF counts in metres, so a model 1 unit wide shows as 1000 mm; for models meant in millimetres (AI generators, many exports) choose Settings → 3D models → Millimetres |
| Archives | .zip, .7z, .rar, .tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, … | Mosaic | Members | Browsed like folders through libarchive |
| G-code | .gcode, .gco, .g | ✔ | – | The picture the slicer embedded (PNG, JPG, QOI), otherwise the toolpaths; print facts from the comments (OrcaSlicer, Anycubic, Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer, Cura). Binary G-code (.bgcode) is not read yet |
| Images | .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .webp, .gif, .bmp | ✔ |
Everything can be changed in the settings window (⚙ at the top right, or Ctrl+,), sorted into categories on the left: General (language, what a double-click on a model does, the panes), Library (library folders, the inbox), Tags (colours, the tag list, suggested tags), Tiles (which badges show where on a sample tile, tags as names or dots, file names, tile size, folder previews), 3D view (picture quality of the large preview and the model windows, the unit of glTF models), Programs (slicer and mesh editor), Printer (your printers), AI & MCP (optional assistant, what it may see, access log), Data and storage (backups, and the preview cache with its size and a Clear cache button) and About Meshgrove, which lists the exact paths on your system.
| What | Linux | Windows | macOS |
|---|---|---|---|
Settings (config.toml) and pane layout (layout.json) | ~/.config/meshgrove/ | %APPDATA%\meshgrove\ | ~/Library/Application Support/meshgrove/ |
Library index (library.db) and backups/ | ~/.local/share/meshgrove/ | %APPDATA%\meshgrove\ | ~/Library/Application Support/meshgrove/ |
AI suggestions and access log (proposals.db, only once an assistant was used) | ~/.local/share/meshgrove/ | %APPDATA%\meshgrove\ | ~/Library/Application Support/meshgrove/ |
Cache: previews, STEP meshes, extracted archive files, the log (meshgrove.log) | ~/.cache/meshgrove/ | %LOCALAPPDATA%\meshgrove\ | ~/Library/Caches/meshgrove/ |
| Exported pictures | ~/Pictures/Meshgrove (localised, e.g. ~/Bilder) | Pictures\Meshgrove | ~/Pictures/Meshgrove |
| Exported print lists (PDF, CSV), tags and notes | Documents folder | Documents folder | Documents folder |
The cache can always be deleted; it is rebuilt when needed. The index can be deleted too, but tags, notes, lists and the print log live in it, so export them first or keep the backups.
config.toml is plain text. The settings window covers everything, but for reference:
library_roots = ["/home/me/3D-Models", "/mnt/nas/prints"]
last_folder = "/home/me/3D-Models/minis"
tile_size = 160.0 # 96 … 384
only_models = false
sort_by = "name" # name | modified | size | type
sort_descending = false
language = "en" # "de", "en"; leave out to follow the system
lock_panes = false # true: panes can only be resized, not moved
double_click = "window" # window | preview | slicer | editor | default_app
preview_quality = "high" # large preview and model windows: standard | high | studio
preview_controls = false # large preview: show name, tools and hints
gallery_view = "grid" # grid | list
print_filter = "all" # all | unprinted | printed | failed
colored_tags = true # tags in colours (otherwise grey)
tile_tags = "names" # names | dots
tile_tag_count = 3 # 1 … 8
[tile_layout] # badges on the tiles, each list from its corner inwards
top_left = ["filaments"]
top_right = ["duplicates", "tags"]
bottom_left = ["file_type"]
bottom_right = ["check", "favorite", "print_state"]
hidden = []
filaments = "dots" # dots | stripe
check = "text" # text | symbol
name_lines = 2 # 0 … 2
name_extension = true
[list_columns]
hidden = ["type"] # preview, folder, type, size, dimensions, modified, tags, favorite, print
widths = { name = 320.0 } # columns you made wider or narrower
[folder_previews]
enabled = false # models from subfolders on folder tiles
depth = 2 # 1 … 5 levels
cycle = true # fade through more than four
[slicer] # leave out to detect automatically
name = "My Slicer"
program = "/opt/myslicer/bin/myslicer"
args = [] # put before the file names
env = [["LD_LIBRARY_PATH", "/opt/myslicer/lib"]]
workdir = "/opt/myslicer"
[editor] # mesh editor; leave out to detect automatically
name = "FreeCAD"
program = "/usr/bin/freecad"
inbox = true # collect new files in the inbox
[[printers]] # leave all out to take them from the slicers
name = "Anycubic Kobra S1"
x = 250.0
y = 250.0
z = 250.0
nozzle = 0.4
materials = ["PLA", "PETG"]
[ai] # optional assistant over MCP
enabled = false
chat_mode = "review" # review | auto: changes from the chat reviewed first, or applied at once
[[ai.libraries]]
root = "/home/me/3D-Models"
access = "cloud" # none | local_only | cloud
images = true # thumbnails may be sent
[ai.endpoint] # your own endpoint for the AI chat and one-click actions
base_url = "http://localhost:11434/v1"
model = "qwen3:8b"
local = true # runs here or on your own network
vision = false # the model understands pictures
tools = true # the model can use tools
Environment variables for special cases:
| Variable | Effect |
|---|---|
WGPU_BACKEND=gl (or vulkan, dx12, metal) | Choose the graphics backend, e.g. if the window stays black |
RUST_LOG=meshgrove=debug | More log output (on the terminal and in meshgrove.log) |
MESHGROVE_STEP_MESHER=/path/to/meshgrove-step-mesher | Use a specific STEP helper |
Meshgrove was called STL-Browser during development. On the first start it moves the
folders of that name (~/.config/stl-browser …) to the new ones, and it imports exports
made under the old name.
Meshgrove is built for collections of thousands of files on ordinary hard drives:
| Feature | Linux | Windows | macOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gallery, list view, viewer, library, tags, notes, lists, print log, duplicates, bed check | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| G-code and readme previews, PDF checklists | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| ZIP / 7z / RAR / TAR | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| PDF previews | ✔ with poppler | ✔ with poppler | ✔ with poppler |
| STEP previews | ✔ all packages; source build with OpenCascade | ✔ | ✔ |
| Copy files to the clipboard | ✔ Wayland (X11: paths as text) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Paste files from the clipboard | ✔ Wayland (X11: paths as text) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Show in file manager | ✔ D-Bus (Dolphin, Nautilus, …) | ✔ Explorer | ✔ Finder |
| Slicer detection | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Read-only drive detection | ✔ | – | – |
| Thumbnails in the system file manager | ✔ freedesktop thumbnailer (.deb, .rpm, install.sh) | – | – |
| Menu entry and icon | ✔ .deb, .rpm, install.sh | ✔ installer (Start menu, Open with) | ✔ app bundle |
The window stays black or the app does not start.
Meshgrove needs Vulkan (Linux, Windows), Metal (macOS) or DirectX 12 (Windows). Update the
graphics driver. As a workaround, try another backend: WGPU_BACKEND=gl meshgrove. The log
is meshgrove.log in the cache folder; Settings → About Meshgrove shows its path.
Changes on disk show up only after a while (Linux).
Linux limits how many programs may watch folders (fs.inotify.max_user_instances, often 128).
On busy desktops that limit is used up, and Meshgrove then falls back to checking every
minute. To raise the limit: sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_instances=512. To keep it
after a reboot, put fs.inotify.max_user_instances=512 into
/etc/sysctl.d/90-inotify.conf. F5 reads the current folder again immediately, and
right-click → Rescan folder a whole library folder with everything below it.
Dolphin shows no 3D previews.
Enable the previews in Dolphin's settings (see
Thumbnails in Dolphin) and raise the size
limit. Delete ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail (install.sh does this) and reopen the folder.
meshgrove-thumbnailer -s 256 model.stl /tmp/test.png tests the thumbnailer by hand. The
AppImage brings no thumbnailer; use a package or the source build for that.
STEP files show "built without OpenCascade".
This only happens with a source build: the STEP helper was built without OpenCascade, or with
a version older than 7.5. Install the OpenCascade development files (see
From source) and run packaging/install.sh again.
PDFs show only an icon.
Install poppler (pdftoppm must be on the PATH).
"Move to trash" is greyed out. The file is inside an archive, or the drive is mounted read-only. On Linux, NTFS drives are often mounted read-only when Windows was not shut down cleanly (Fast Startup).
The slicer is not found or does not start.
Set it in Settings → Slicer. Anycubic Slicer Next on Linux needs its library folder in
LD_LIBRARY_PATH. The automatic detection sets that up, and the settings keep it when you
only change the name.
Copying files pastes only text (Linux). Copying real files needs a Wayland session. Under X11, Meshgrove falls back to copying the paths as text.
Where are my tags if I reinstall? In the library index and in the daily backups (see the table). Use Settings → Back up tags, notes & lists → Export before moving to another computer, then Import there.
Does Meshgrove change my 3MF/STL files? No. It never writes to model files or archives. With import or placement by tag switched on it moves files (never their contents), and the history takes every move back.
You need Rust 1.95 or newer and libarchive. OpenCascade (STEP) and poppler (PDF, at runtime only) are optional.
Linux: see From source. For development:
cargo run --release -p meshgrove -- ~/3D-Models
Windows (MSVC toolchain):
# libarchive as a static library through vcpkg
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg C:\vcpkg
C:\vcpkg\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
C:\vcpkg\vcpkg install libarchive:x64-windows-static
$env:VCPKG_ROOT = "C:\vcpkg"; $env:VCPKGRS_TRIPLET = "x64-windows-static"
cargo build --release -p meshgrove -p meshgrove-step
macOS:
brew install libarchive pkg-config
cargo build --release -p meshgrove -p meshgrove-step
STEP support on any system: install OpenCascade 7.5 or newer (dnf install opencascade-devel, apt install libocct-data-exchange-dev, brew install opencascade,
vcpkg install opencascade, …). If its headers are not in /usr/include/opencascade, point the
build at them with OCCT_INCLUDE (and OCCT_LIB for the library folder), then build
-p meshgrove-step. For a static OpenCascade, such as vcpkg's static triplets, also set
OCCT_STATIC=1. The resulting meshgrove-step-mesher must sit next to the meshgrove
executable or be on the PATH.
Release packages: .github/workflows/release.yml builds
them all. Windows, macOS and the AppImage link libarchive and OpenCascade statically from a
pinned vcpkg (packaging/vcpkg/install.sh); the .deb and .rpm use the
distribution's libraries. The scripts for each format are in packaging.
Meshgrove is a Cargo workspace of eight crates:
| Crate | Purpose |
|---|---|
meshgrove-core | Everything without a window or GPU: file formats (STL, 3MF, STEP, OBJ, PLY, glTF, G-code, archives, images, PDF, text), the SQLite library index, scanner, search syntax, duplicate signatures, tags, notes, lists, the print log and backups, thumbnail cache, settings, printer profiles, printability checks, the inbox, the change journal, and ai: what an assistant may see and suggest |
meshgrove-render | The wgpu mesh renderer, shared by thumbnails (headless), the 3D viewer, the hover turntable and the Dolphin thumbnailer |
meshgrove | The egui application |
meshgrove-step | meshgrove-step-mesher: STEP → STL with OpenCascade, as a separate process |
meshgrove-thumbnailer | The freedesktop thumbnailer for Dolphin and file dialogs |
meshgrove-mcp | meshgrove-mcp: the optional MCP server the user's own assistant starts (stdio); reads the index, writes only suggestions |
meshgrove-plugin-api | The plugin interface (MIT OR Apache-2.0): the WIT world, manifest, tools, panel widgets, bundles; with guest the bindings for writing a plugin (docs/plugins.md) |
How work flows through the app:
flowchart LR
UI["UI thread<br/>(egui)"] -- "visible tiles, hover" --> Q["Thumbnail queue<br/>visible first"]
Q --> IO["Reader thread<br/>one at a time, HDD-friendly"]
IO --> P["Parser pool<br/>STL · 3MF · OBJ · PLY · glTF · G-code · text · archives"]
P -- "STEP" --> S["meshgrove-step-mesher<br/>(own process)"]
P --> G["GPU thread<br/>headless wgpu render"]
G --> C[("Preview cache<br/>PNG + facts")]
C --> UI
L["Library service<br/>scanner + file watcher"] --> DB[("SQLite index<br/>files · tags · notes · lists · prints")]
G -- "size, hash, geometry" --> L
DB -- "search, duplicates" --> UI
Some design decisions:
meshgrove-mcp never writes the library: suggestions go to a
database of their own (proposals.db), and only Meshgrove's library service applies what the
user accepts, journalling every step so it can be undone.cargo test --workspace # unit, format, database and GPU render tests
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo fmt --all
scripts/ui-screenshot.sh out.png 8 ~/3D-Models # screenshot of the UI in a headless nested KWin
scripts/ui-screenshot.sh runs the app in a virtual KWin session and saves its window, so UI
changes can be checked without touching your desktop. Test hooks (environment variables) can
script the session. Use separate XDG_CONFIG_HOME / XDG_DATA_HOME / XDG_CACHE_HOME
folders to keep test runs away from your real settings:
| Variable | Effect |
|---|---|
MESHGROVE_SCREENSHOT=out.png, MESHGROVE_SCREENSHOT_DELAY=8 | Save the window after the delay and quit |
MESHGROVE_POINTER=x,y | Pin the pointer, e.g. to test the hover turntable |
MESHGROVE_HOLD=1, MESHGROVE_WHEEL=dy | Hold the button / turn the wheel at the pointer |
MESHGROVE_CLICKS=x,y;x,y | Click these points one after another (from 3 s, every 0.8 s); x,y*2 double-clicks |
MESHGROVE_MEASURE=fx,fy;fx,fy | Measure between these points (fractions of the view) in the first model window |
MESHGROVE_WINDOW_VIEW=top | Start the first model window in a standard view (front, left, …) |
MESHGROVE_TYPE=text | Type text after the clicks |
MESHGROVE_SEARCH=query | Start with a library search |
MESHGROVE_FLATTEN=1 | Start with "include subfolders" |
MESHGROVE_VIEW=duplicates / settings | Open the duplicate view / the settings |
CI runs formatting, clippy and the tests on Linux, Windows and macOS. Render tests run on
software Vulkan (lavapipe) on Linux. Pushing a tag v* builds the release packages for all
three systems and creates a draft release.
Translations live in crates/meshgrove/locales (de.yml,
en.yml). A test makes sure every key used in the code exists in every language.
Ideas and next steps, roughly in order:
.bgcode)Bug reports, ideas and pull requests are welcome in the
issue tracker. Helpful details in a bug
report: your operating system, graphics card, what you did, and the log file meshgrove.log
(its path is under Settings → About Meshgrove; start Meshgrove with RUST_LOG=meshgrove=debug
for more detail). A sample file
helps a lot when a model shows wrongly, if you are allowed to share it.
For code: run cargo fmt, cargo clippy and cargo test before opening a pull request, and
keep comments and identifiers in English. New user-visible text goes through t!("…"), with
entries in both locale files. By submitting a contribution you agree that it is licensed under
the same terms as Meshgrove (GPL-3.0-or-later).
Meshgrove is free and stays free. If it saves you time or tidies up your print library, you can leave a tip on Ko-fi. Bug reports, ideas and a ⭐ on GitHub are just as welcome.
Meshgrove is developed by Davis as a project of German Redneck Engineering.
Built on excellent open-source work: egui/eframe with egui_tiles, egui_extras and egui_commonmark (with pulldown-cmark), wgpu, glam, rusqlite with SQLite, libarchive through compress-tools, OpenCascade, poppler, notify, zip, quick-xml, image, krilla (PDF checklists), ab_glyph, BLAKE3, trash, , and , among others. Finding and connecting the AI assistants is adapted from (MIT). Logo and banner were created with the Krea 2 image model.
All models in the screenshots are our own designs (German Redneck Engineering).
Copyright © 2026 Davis · German Redneck Engineering
Meshgrove is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Meshgrove is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
The STEP helper uses OpenCascade (LGPL-2.1 with an exception) as a separate program; PDF
previews call poppler's pdftoppm (GPL) as an external program. The licenses of all libraries
and fonts built into the program are listed in THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.md, which comes with every
release package. In the Windows, macOS and AppImage packages, OpenCascade is built into the STEP
helper; the source code of that OpenCascade version is attached to each release.
Anycubic, OrcaSlicer, Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer, KDE, Dolphin, Windows and macOS are trademarks of their respective owners. Meshgrove is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
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| STEP / STP | CAD files are tessellated by OpenCascade in a separate helper process, so a broken file cannot crash the app; results are cached |
| Archives | Open ZIP, 7z, RAR and TAR like folders; every model inside gets a preview; files are extracted only when another program needs them |
| Library | Index (SQLite) of all library folders; instant search such as dragon ext:3mf tag:painted is:unprinted; changes on disk are picked up automatically, and Rescan folder catches anything else |
| Tags and notes | Tags and notes belong to the file content, so they survive renames and moves; tags in colours, as pills or dots on the tiles; suggested tags for themes (garden, workshop, kids' room …), print properties and state; the search finds note text too; daily automatic backups; export and import as JSON |
| Favourites and lists | ★ favourites (Ctrl+D); collections across folders, hand-picked or a saved search that stays current; print lists with the copies you need of each model, ticked off as you print, then archived; a print list becomes a PDF checklist with pictures or a CSV file |
| Print log | Log a print as printed or failed (and undo it); tiles show ✓2 or ✗; show only what is not printed yet, printed or failed; search with is:printed, is:unprinted, is:failed |
| G-code | Previews from the picture the slicer embedded (PNG, JPG, QOI), or the toolpaths drawn when there is none; slicer, printer, print time, filament (grams, metres, material, colour), layers, nozzle and cost; a warning when a file was sliced for another printer |
| Readmes | Text files (.txt, .md, .nfo, README, LICENSE) get a page preview; the preview pane shows them in full, Markdown formatted with links that open in the browser; a selected folder shows its readme |
| Printers | All your printers with their build volumes, found in Anycubic Slicer Next, OrcaSlicer, Bambu Studio and PrusaSlicer or entered by hand; each model says which printers it fits on, tiles mark models that fit only when turned (↻ 41°) or on no printer (✕); G-code is matched to its printer; search with passt:"Kobra S1" and is:zugross |
| Printability check | Every model is checked for holes (open edges), edges shared by more than two faces, faces without area, separate parts and volume, and for suspicious sizes (drawn in inches?); ⚠ on the tile, details in the info pane, is:problem in the search |
| Inbox | New files are collected in an inbox, grouped by the folder or archive they came in (a customer's ZIP, a new download), with copies of known models counted apart; tick them off when sorted |
| AI (optional) | Meshgrove brings no AI, but your own assistant (Claude, LM Studio, Cursor …) can search the libraries you open to it over MCP and suggest tags, notes, lists and moves; with an endpoint of your own (Ollama, LM Studio, OpenAI-compatible) there is an AI chat with @ references and one-click actions too. Nothing changes until you accept it, and everything can be undone |
| Import and placement | Name a downloads folder and Meshgrove offers its new models, G-code and archives for import into the library's landing folder (moved, numbered when a name is taken, archives whole or unpacked; undoable). A file in the landing folder that gets a theme tag is placed into that tag's folder, by a rule you set or by your assistant, with your okay or – out of the landing folder only – by itself |
| Duplicates | Finds exact copies and the same model saved differently (ASCII vs binary STL, STL vs 3MF, rotated or moved copies), suggests which copy to keep and can move the others to the trash |
| Slicer and apps | "Open in slicer" for one or many models (finds over 30 common filament and resin slicers, among them Anycubic Slicer Next, OrcaSlicer, Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer, Cura, Creality Print, QIDI Studio, FlashPrint, Lychee, ChiTuBox and UVtools, whether installed as a package, Flatpak, Snap or AppImage; add the ones you use with a ＋ in the settings, pick a default, the others sit in a submenu), into the slicer window that is already open where the slicer allows it; "open in" your mesh editors or CAD programs (finds over 20 programs, among them Blender, FreeCAD, Autodesk Fusion, MeshLab, SolidCraft, OpenSCAD, SolveSpace, Rhino, SketchUp, SolidWorks and fstl, again in every install variant; add and choose a default in the settings); Ctrl+C copies the files for pasting into the file manager or slicer, Ctrl+X cuts, Ctrl+V pastes files from the clipboard into the folder; "show in file manager"; open with the default app |
| Desktop integration | Menu entry, icon, file associations; on Linux the same renderer also provides thumbnails in Dolphin and file dialogs |
| Languages | English and German, following the system language (switchable in the settings) |
Paste (Ctrl+V): copies the files on the clipboard – from Meshgrove, the file manager or as paths – into the folder shown, or by right-click into a folder tile. Nothing is replaced (a taken name gets a number), the copies keep their tags and notes, and the history undoes it.
Cut (Ctrl+X): marks the selection (the tiles fade) and puts it on the clipboard; the next paste moves the files instead – within the library with tags, notes and previews along, undoable in the history. File managers that know the cut marker (Dolphin, Nautilus) move them too, and what they cut is moved when pasted here.
Show in file manager: opens Dolphin/Nautilus, Explorer or Finder with the files selected.
Open with default app (context menu): opens a model in the system's default application, for example the slicer registered for STL files; other files open there with a double-click.
| – |
| Shown large in the preview pane |
.pdf | First page | – | Needs pdftoppm from poppler |
| Text | .txt, .md, .markdown, .nfo, README, LICENSE, COPYING | First page | – | Shown in full in the preview pane, Markdown formatted; UTF-8, UTF-16 and Latin-1 |
| Everything else | File icon | – | Shown with its extension so the folder view is complete |
meshgrove-plugins | The plugin host: wasmtime sandbox, grants, panels, jobs, staging, the AI tools of plugins, and meshgrove-plugin-run for running a plugin without Meshgrove |