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Anatomed: 3D Anatomy for Obsidian
Embed interactive, region-isolated 3D anatomy directly in your notes. Write an anatomed
code block and get a live, rotatable 3D model inline, showing only the structures you asked
for, with a legend to toggle each one. Click a structure to open (or create) its note, wiring
anatomy into your knowledge map.
The models are a validated, Z-Anatomy-derived catalogue of ~3,500 named structures. Rendering is
always a bounded region (never a whole body system), with graded context: isolated /
related / regional.
Demo
Write an anatomed block, get a live 3D model inline, toggle structures, and click one to open
its note. Click the image to play.
Install
Anatomed is an official Obsidian community plugin you can download directly from within Obsidian.
From the community catalogue: Settings → Community plugins → Browse → search "Anatomed 3D Anatomy" → Install → Enable.
Manually: download manifest.json, main.js, and styles.css from the
latest release into
<your-vault>/.obsidian/plugins/anatomed/, then enable the plugin in Settings → Community
plugins. Desktop only for now.
Usage
Add a fenced anatomed code block to any note:
```anatomed
region: cervical spine
detail: related
title: Cervical spine
```
region:/parts:accept one or more structures (comma-separated), in English or Latin.detail:acceptsisolated(default),related, orregional(surrounding structures shown translucent).title:sets an optional heading.
Drag to rotate, scroll to zoom, right-drag to pan; toggle structures in the legend; hover for
names. Click a structure to open (or create) a [[Structure]] note.
Settings
- Asset base URL: where the 3D models (and the
related/regionalcontext data) are fetched from. - Structure notes folder: where click-to-create notes are placed.
- Viewer height and Default detail.
Privacy & network
The 3D model files (GLB), plus a nearest-neighbour dataset used only for related/regional blocks,
stream from a public asset host (configurable above). Nothing else leaves your machine; there is
no telemetry.
Building from source
This repository is self-contained (MIT). The viewer core under src/ and widget/ is shared with
the sibling project anatomed-mcp (which renders the
same anatomy inline in Claude).
git clone https://github.com/pitfa19/anatomed-obsidian
cd anatomed-obsidian && npm install
npm run build # -> main.js, styles.css (npm run dev for an unminified build)
Layout: main.tsx (plugin entry) · src/ (region resolver + catalogue) · widget/ (R3F viewer
- helpers) ·
assets/parts-catalog.json(bundled catalogue). The GLB models and therelated/regionalneighbour data are fetched at runtime from the asset host.
License & attribution
- Software (this plugin's code): MIT.
- 3D anatomy models + derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0 (see
LICENSE-ASSETSandNOTICE). Derived from Z-Anatomy (Kervyn & Zielinski, CC BY-SA 4.0), itself derived from BodyParts3D (DBCLS, CC BY-SA 2.1 Japan). Attribution is required.

