# Increasing mesh size of a .stl file

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/increasing-mesh-size-of-a-stl-file/4120
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [April 20, 2020, 8:15am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/increasing-mesh-size-of-a-stl-file/4120 "2020-04-20T08:15:10Z")
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### Author: ![Dinushika1992](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Dinushika1992](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Dinushika1992)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 8:15am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/increasing-mesh-size-of-a-stl-file/4120/1 "2020-04-20T08:15:10Z")

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Hi,

I have a .stl file of a model with 1920 triangles (meshes). I want to increase it to more than 5000 meshes. Can someone please tell me how can I increase the number of meshes of my model. Thank you

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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/increasing-mesh-size-of-a-stl-file/4120/2 "2020-04-20T13:48:33Z")

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The **Subdivide** and **Loop Subdivision** filters should do that.

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### Author: ![Dinushika1992](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Dinushika1992](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Dinushika1992)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/increasing-mesh-size-of-a-stl-file/4120/3 "2020-04-27T02:24:26Z")

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Thank you very much!