diff --git a/Applications/ApplicationsLib/CMakeLists.txt b/Applications/ApplicationsLib/CMakeLists.txt
index 6a49327875f0db0ac3b8c08bf224633208aa82dc..86eb64722bd957fbf995ddca440856a6e2210401 100644
--- a/Applications/ApplicationsLib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Applications/ApplicationsLib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ if(OGS_BUILD_CLI OR OGS_BUILD_UTILS OR OGS_BUILD_TESTING)
         ApplicationsLib PUBLIC Processes PRIVATE ParameterLib ProcessLib
     )
 elseif(OGS_BUILD_GUI)
-    target_link_libraries(ApplicationsLib PRIVATE nlohmann_json::nlohmann_json)
+    target_link_libraries(ApplicationsLib PRIVATE MeshToolsLib nlohmann_json::nlohmann_json)
 endif()
 
 if(OGS_USE_LIS)
diff --git a/Applications/FileIO/CMakeLists.txt b/Applications/FileIO/CMakeLists.txt
index e3819bbfd4bea32ae15e84c1ccaa159f2a60f5b0..fc14b9dfd9f799c37756bea24c3d0ca6507804b9 100644
--- a/Applications/FileIO/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Applications/FileIO/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ target_link_libraries(
            $<$<BOOL:${OGS_BUILD_GUI}>:QtBase>
            $<$<TARGET_EXISTS:shp>:shp>
            $<$<TARGET_EXISTS:SwmmInterface>:SwmmInterface>
-    PRIVATE MeshLib GitInfoLib
+    PRIVATE MeshLib MeshToolsLib GitInfoLib
 )
 
 target_precompile_headers(ApplicationsFileIO PRIVATE [["BaseLib/Error.h"]]
diff --git a/Applications/Utils/FileConverter/CMakeLists.txt b/Applications/Utils/FileConverter/CMakeLists.txt
index b35e3f3f3ed6e3785b0feda92db22bce1c5dcb31..1050fcbe834a06cb822a3ee88466d1261fc8114b 100644
--- a/Applications/Utils/FileConverter/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Applications/Utils/FileConverter/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ endif()
 foreach(tool ${TOOLS})
     ogs_add_executable(${tool} ${tool}.cpp)
     target_link_libraries(
-        ${tool} ApplicationsFileIO GitInfoLib MeshLib MeshGeoToolsLib tclap
+        ${tool} ApplicationsFileIO GitInfoLib MeshLib
+                MeshToolsLib MeshGeoToolsLib tclap
     )
 endforeach()
 install(TARGETS ${TOOLS} RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)
diff --git a/Applications/Utils/GeoTools/CMakeLists.txt b/Applications/Utils/GeoTools/CMakeLists.txt
index 4ff8b39fa7f0a0d2784f9bace7ab367882cdad64..d13d64a86a315e32b8b1ed94c4a5c3d3adc779c7 100644
--- a/Applications/Utils/GeoTools/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Applications/Utils/GeoTools/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ set(TOOLS MoveGeometry createRaster addDataToRaster generateGeometry)
 foreach(tool ${TOOLS})
     ogs_add_executable(${tool} ${tool}.cpp)
     target_link_libraries(
-        ${tool} GeoLib GitInfoLib ApplicationsFileIO tclap
+        ${tool} GeoLib GitInfoLib ApplicationsFileIO MeshToolsLib tclap
     )
 endforeach()
 install(TARGETS ${TOOLS} RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)
diff --git a/Applications/Utils/MeshEdit/CMakeLists.txt b/Applications/Utils/MeshEdit/CMakeLists.txt
index 419689ff98e669fbb9a1920b5b9c29ea009295c5..b14178dbfc22647032073350c162aa7f3d4d9be3 100644
--- a/Applications/Utils/MeshEdit/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Applications/Utils/MeshEdit/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -37,13 +37,13 @@ target_include_directories(
     RemoveGhostData PRIVATE ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/ThirdParty/paraview
 )
 target_link_libraries(
-    RemoveGhostData GitInfoLib MeshLib tclap VTK::FiltersParallel
+    RemoveGhostData GitInfoLib MeshLib MeshToolsLib tclap VTK::FiltersParallel
 )
 install(TARGETS RemoveGhostData RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)
 
 foreach(tool ${TOOLS})
     ogs_add_executable(${tool} ${tool}.cpp)
-    target_link_libraries(${tool} GitInfoLib MeshLib tclap)
+    target_link_libraries(${tool} GitInfoLib MeshLib MeshToolsLib tclap)
 endforeach()
 install(TARGETS ${TOOLS} RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)
 
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ target_link_libraries(
 target_link_libraries(
     CreateBoundaryConditionsAlongPolylines MeshGeoToolsLib ApplicationsFileIO
 )
+
 target_link_libraries(createLayeredMeshFromRasters ApplicationsFileIO)
 target_link_libraries(MapGeometryToMeshSurface MeshGeoToolsLib)
 target_link_libraries(MeshMapping ApplicationsFileIO)
diff --git a/Applications/Utils/MeshGeoTools/CMakeLists.txt b/Applications/Utils/MeshGeoTools/CMakeLists.txt
index de10ebe24ec164a5e30d1263ad5f8f9d6b398113..1f22b261f7a54749c34ee564c48d0da40aba2025 100644
--- a/Applications/Utils/MeshGeoTools/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Applications/Utils/MeshGeoTools/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ endif()
 foreach(tool ${TOOLS})
     ogs_add_executable(${tool} ${tool}.cpp)
     target_link_libraries(
-        ${tool} ApplicationsFileIO GitInfoLib MeshLib MeshGeoToolsLib tclap
+        ${tool} ApplicationsFileIO GitInfoLib MeshLib MeshToolsLib MeshGeoToolsLib tclap
     )
 endforeach()
 
diff --git a/Applications/Utils/ModelPreparation/CMakeLists.txt b/Applications/Utils/ModelPreparation/CMakeLists.txt
index 8536e16a724699f00896e443b111e791fbc5ed71..566e30fdcee0b297fa11aef7c9be9337346096fd 100644
--- a/Applications/Utils/ModelPreparation/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Applications/Utils/ModelPreparation/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ set(TOOLS ComputeNodeAreasFromSurfaceMesh convertVtkDataArrayToVtkDataArray
 )
 foreach(tool ${TOOLS})
     ogs_add_executable(${tool} ${tool}.cpp)
-    target_link_libraries(${tool} GitInfoLib MeshLib tclap)
+    target_link_libraries(${tool} GitInfoLib MeshLib MeshToolsLib tclap)
 endforeach()
 install(TARGETS ${TOOLS} RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)
diff --git a/Applications/Utils/OGSFileConverter/CMakeLists.txt b/Applications/Utils/OGSFileConverter/CMakeLists.txt
index 640abb9fa4959c4f37ce1d7759dbbd6bc96c0092..caa479b881714668f0a7e41c28ebe39ae1d163a1 100644
--- a/Applications/Utils/OGSFileConverter/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Applications/Utils/OGSFileConverter/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ogs_add_library(
 )
 target_link_libraries(
     OGSFileConverterLib PUBLIC ApplicationsFileIO MathLib QtBase
-    INTERFACE MeshLib
+    INTERFACE MeshLib MeshToolsLib
 )
 
 set_target_properties(OGSFileConverterLib PROPERTIES AUTOMOC TRUE AUTOUIC TRUE)
diff --git a/Applications/Utils/PostProcessing/CMakeLists.txt b/Applications/Utils/PostProcessing/CMakeLists.txt
index 13bbef5c9113361e899cb7ca61685df7677f3a4e..71ac52621b1a66a88f889d449b96f9a11d16ac0f 100644
--- a/Applications/Utils/PostProcessing/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Applications/Utils/PostProcessing/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 if(OGS_BUILD_PROCESS_LIE)
     ogs_add_executable(postLIE postLIE.cpp)
-    target_link_libraries(postLIE GitInfoLib LIECommon tclap)
+    target_link_libraries(postLIE GitInfoLib LIECommon MeshToolsLib tclap)
     install(TARGETS postLIE RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)
 endif()
 
 if(OGS_BUILD_GUI)
     ogs_add_executable(Raster2PointCloud Raster2PointCloud.cpp)
     target_link_libraries(
-        Raster2PointCloud ApplicationsFileIO BaseLib GitInfoLib tclap
+        Raster2PointCloud ApplicationsFileIO BaseLib MeshToolsLib GitInfoLib tclap
         VtkVisFilter
     )
     install(TARGETS Raster2PointCloud RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)
diff --git a/Applications/Utils/SimpleMeshCreation/CMakeLists.txt b/Applications/Utils/SimpleMeshCreation/CMakeLists.txt
index 0bb8da606c602ce27d416062ca0ebefa7b033c21..9e01789cf8450cc8ec7357f7584bea3e56e836d5 100644
--- a/Applications/Utils/SimpleMeshCreation/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Applications/Utils/SimpleMeshCreation/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ set(TOOLS generateStructuredMesh createMeshElemPropertiesFromASCRaster)
 
 foreach(tool ${TOOLS})
     ogs_add_executable(${tool} ${tool}.cpp)
-    target_link_libraries(${tool} ApplicationsFileIO GitInfoLib MeshLib tclap)
+    target_link_libraries(${tool} ApplicationsFileIO GitInfoLib MeshLib
+                                  MeshToolsLib tclap)
 endforeach()
 install(TARGETS ${TOOLS} RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 756fe96aa49ae2f29a342bbbd04345d6ed89a4e1..40bb885369942a02a5758eefb85f06817e97a435 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ add_subdirectory(GeoLib)
 add_subdirectory(InfoLib)
 add_subdirectory(MathLib)
 add_subdirectory(MeshLib)
+add_subdirectory(MeshToolsLib)
 add_subdirectory(MeshGeoToolsLib)
 add_subdirectory(NumLib)
 
diff --git a/MeshGeoToolsLib/CMakeLists.txt b/MeshGeoToolsLib/CMakeLists.txt
index d8670feacc4301c313637c24a22c8cfbcbfc45da..0e165b8efff75ec2116a2442b65685bbcefbd4b4 100644
--- a/MeshGeoToolsLib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/MeshGeoToolsLib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ get_source_files(SOURCES)
 ogs_add_library(MeshGeoToolsLib ${SOURCES})
 
 target_link_libraries(
-    MeshGeoToolsLib PUBLIC GeoLib MathLib PRIVATE BaseLib MeshLib
+    MeshGeoToolsLib PUBLIC GeoLib MathLib PRIVATE BaseLib MeshToolsLib
 )
 
 target_precompile_headers(MeshGeoToolsLib PRIVATE [["BaseLib/Error.h"]]
diff --git a/Tests/CMakeLists.txt b/Tests/CMakeLists.txt
index 1231b018b6c0f29a926d1fe9a0ea19de318a4974..3dbcdfaa98e98071aa4da060aa09fea772b4de10 100644
--- a/Tests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Tests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ target_link_libraries(
             autocheck
             gmock
             gtest
+            MeshToolsLib
             MeshGeoToolsLib
             MaterialLib
             MathLib