The invention discloses a method for meshing point cloud data. In the method, aiming at discrete point cloud data obtained by laser scanning, an automatic global parameterization method with strong robustness is provided, and a parameterization result is used for directly acquiring a meshing result which is consistent with a main direction and can reflect intrinsic geometric characteristics of a model. The meshing result has two forms, i.e., the meshing result can be wholly formed by quadrangles, or formed by triangles. By using the method, only the point cloud data of the model is used, prior triangulation is not needed to perform point cloud data meshing, the processing procedure is completely automatic, point clouds containing noises can be processed without manual intervention, and the density level of quadrangle meshing can be quickly controlled through parameters to obtain quadrilateral meshes or triangular meshes with various resolution ratios.