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As far as I know, like @ahendrix is saying, you can use assimp via createMeshFromResource. This already gives you the triangles you're looking for, but you could also afterwards convert it to a shapes::ShapeMsg via constructMsgFromShape or its variant shape_msgs::Mesh with a further call to boost::get, more or less like it's explained in here.

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