Triangle Tolerance

Triangle Tolerance

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Triangle Tolerance

tshufordhicks
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I just recently came across Meshmixer for 3D printing but I have a few questions before I begin using the software. How many triangles can Meshmixer tolerate?

Is it necessary to do retopology and lower polycount for 3D printing?

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hfcandrew
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Depending on your computer power, may get framerate drop off at 1M, and some more complex functions seem to take very 5 minutes to compute, or some boolean operations may fail.

 

To reduce a triangle count:

Select>Edit>Reduce
http://help.autodesk.com/view/MSHMXR/2019/ENU/?guid=GUID-54087649-E962-409E-8565-F646BDA80B33

 

Not necessary though. Only use this if the above mentioned issues are interfering with your CAD work, such as in needlessly high res scans.

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