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- On Thu, 22 Feb 1996, WilliamMesa wrote:
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- > I am looking for a way to combine adjacent polygons that are lying on the
- > same plane, is there a macro/plugin that will allow me to discover if 2
- > adjacent polygons have parallel normals ? Maybe there is some other way to
- > do this that I haven't thought of. I welcome your thoughts on this....
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- > p.s. I have a CAD model of approximately 130k triangles and want to
- > decimate this down to as few as possible. Every square patch is broken into
- > at least 2 adjacent triangles and cylinder caps are usually at least 12
- > polygons.
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- I believe if you use LightWave Modeler's MERGE function that will make
- all polys adjacent with parallel normals 1 poly.
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- Ralph Ocampo
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