Help reducing triangles

Help reducing triangles

SGoldthwaite
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Help reducing triangles

SGoldthwaite
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I have an STL that I want to bring into Fusion 360, but it has almost 1.4 million triangles so it bogs Fusion down.  I want to reduce the number of triangles while still keeping the shape.  I attached a picture of the STL.  It's a lot of wavy curves.  I want to keep the crests and valleys pretty sharp.  I have Meshmixer, but don't really know how to use it.  I'd appreciate some tips on reducing the triangle count for this particular shape. 

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hfcandrew
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SGoldthwaite
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Thanks.  I used the reduce feature with Max Deviation option and set it to 0.01mm.  I also enabled shape preserving.  This reduced the triangles from 1.4 million to 14,000.  The STL looks very good and is much more manageable in Fusion.

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