Sketchup Reduce Number Of Faces
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.
- For example, if you choose 30%, the total number of polygons will be reduced by 30%; Note: The mesh must be triangulated prior to reduction. Any faces that are not triangles will be automatically triangulated when the operation is performed. The percentage of reduction refers to the number of triangles, not the number of faces.
- 2017-12-02 21:53:17 UTC #1. Hello, What I wanted to know are there any plugins or a free software that can reduce the number of polygons. For example, a truck/bogie for locomotive would have 100,000 faces. I would want to reduce it by half. The total of faces would be 50,000.
Reduce the number of faces in your model using this easy to use plugin. It will speed up your working time and improve render speed.
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POLYGON REDUCER (polyreduce.rb) is a SketchUp plugin to reduce the number of faces of SketchUp objects. It is useful especially when we use high poly models imported in our model or when we simply want some surfaces to be simpler and lighter. Below you can see a simple comparison of an object created with the Torus plugin before and after using the polyreduce with the face count on the left.
Above the initial object before using the Plugin. Below the object after running the Polyreduce plugin.
As you can see above, sometimes the object will not look so smooth as before running the plugin. This has an easy solution. We run the Soften Edges function and we can control again which edges are shown and which ones are hidden achieving a better result as it can be seen below.
To use the plugin you must select the faces you want to simplify. Then right click and select 'Polyreduce' from the context menu. On the dialog box, you can select the percentage of reduction you want to use. Very useful Plugin!
