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Finding the mass or volume center of a mesh

I am a hobby artist and recently I started to wonder if the body posture of a T-Rex could be rectified with help of a 3D software like ZBrush. I notice in a lot of illustrations a front heavy posture, that in my opinion may not be possible due to mass distribution of head, chest and tail. Is there a way to find the center of mass or volume of a given mesh? I don’t pretend to take into account bones and stuff, but only to approximate the center of mass or volume distribution of a mesh, in this case a biped dinosaur.

ZBrush provides mesh volume through the 3D Print Hub plugin but not the center of mass. Autodesk Meshmixer (free) does have though, under Analysis>Stability. Your model probably needs to be a closed volume.

Meshmixer seems really useful for finding the center. Thank you very much for the tip. Now I have to figure out how to make meshes watertight.

Well, one way is to use Tool>Geometry>Modify Topology>Close Holes.

I couldn’t find the mentioned feature “close holes”. Instead I found EDIT->Make Solid. Once again a big thumbs up for guiding me to this software. Greeting from Guatemala.

I was talking about ZBrush. :stuck_out_tongue:

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