Simplify model adaptive to required level of detail

General Feedback & Requests
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I would love to be able to simplify the model adaptive to the required level of detail of its parts. Current workflow is to make a selection for higher polygon count, simplify this lightly and then select roughly the other parts and simplify these more heavily. Since there is no way to save a selection , or to reselect after simplify, it is hard to “invert” the original selection and since doing it by hand the boundary between the higher detail geometry and the more simplified is rough.

I would like to be able to either

  1. preserve or reselect the selection after simplify command (since the original geometry is simplified, new (resulting) polygons would have to be selected)

  2. to support soft or mask selection for the simplify command

  3. to support a mask for the simplify command

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Hi Lukas,
thank you for your idea. I added this to our feature request database.

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While I totally agree with the sentiment of your post and hope that RC better supports adaptive decimation, one workaround to the “no way of saving a selection” issue I can suggest is the following:

  • adjust the reconstruction region to include/exclude a region you wanna decimate
  • export the reconstruction region
  • select the faces instead of the region by going to Tools > Mesh Model > Box > select triangles inside the box
  • simplify to X amount
  • import the reconstruction region
  • select the faces OUTSIDE of the region by going to Tools > Mesh Model > Box > select triangles outside the box
  • simplify, etc