The disclosure notably relates to a computer-implemented method for generating a structured three-dimensional (3D) model from a mesh. The method includes obtaining a mesh that comprises faces, each face of the mesh including a normal and principal curvature values; computing a distribution of the principal curvatures values over the whole mesh by counting the number of occurrences of discretized curvature values; identifying in the computed distribution one or more dominant ranges of principal curvature values; for each identified dominant range, computing one or more regions of the mesh that includes faces belonging to the identified dominant range; for each computed region, detecting a primitive type by using the curvatures values of all faces of the region and identifying parameters of the detected primitive by using the mesh surface of the region.