SWC2MESH
SWC2MESH is a desktop batch converter that turns neuronal SWC morphology files into STL meshes for printing and further mesh work.
The Fruit Fly Brain Map Project (FlyWire Consortium, with partners including Princeton, HHMI, and Google AI) completed the first full wiring diagram of an adult fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) brain: over 166,000 neurons and more than 125 million synapses. It is a digital map of how a complex organism processes information, decides, and moves.
Made as a simple way to examine that neuron data as a sculptor. Existing scientific tools that convert SWC to mesh were hard to use; this app batch converts SWC to STL with control over mesh quality.
Built on a residency at Aldea, Bergen. Big thanks to Cameron MacLeod for the inspiration and guidance.
Repo on GitHub. First public release is v0.1.0, with builds for macOS Apple Silicon, macOS Intel, Windows, and Linux.
Download v0.1.0
On Apple Silicon laptops prefer the arm64 zip. macOS may quarantine the unsigned app: unzip, then chmod -R u+x on the app bundle and xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine … before opening.
Sample meshes
Five example STLs from real SWC inputs. Rotate and zoom in the viewer; download any mesh from the bar below.
