How do I reduce the triangle/faces count in a tin?

[bladestar]

Hi good people

I have a comlex/curved tin with thousands of faces and i would like to reduce the number of triangles/faces as there is way too many that are not needed for the shape involved.

is this easily possible, is the a tool to do this or must i do it manually?

Thanks a loit for your help

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[Rich O Brien]

In Artisan there is a Polyreducer tool. There is also a free earlier version that is slightly problematic.

Tgi3D Amorph has a great Downsampling tool that you can use as it's a 30 day trial.

Or export to another app like Blender and reduce poly count there.

[Rich O Brien]

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=250026

You'll find those plugins here

[Jim]

MeshLab has some good cleanup tools, but it may take some practice to get it right. The work-flow isn't easy either - you need to export the model as .dae, load in MeshLab, process, save, then import back into SketchUp.

However, MeshLab works remarkably well. Here is an image of a model with reduced polys using MeshLab's "Quadratic Edge Collapse Decimation" filter twice using a 50% reduction.

[mac1]

See this link for thoughts on Mesh Lab https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BzoOdxbAUZ-WZjcwZDgwYzQtZjdjOS00YWI5LWE1NjctNDQ4ZWIzN2U1MTFm&hl=en&authkey=CJzM55oC.
It has a huge selection of cleaning, repairing and re-meshing filters. The learning curve is steep( sparse documentation). If at all possible I would used the plugin tools available for SU.

[bladestar]

taanks a lot guys

[bladestar]

@bladestar said:

taanks a lot guys

here's the end result..
got the faces down for the whole rifle by about 50%

hope u like it

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