zuluriney

I would very much appreciate an option for the CutOff tool in Voxels mode where you can remove whole parts that are connected. I am working with meshes generated from CAT scan data and I have a lot of noise which is represented by small "blobs" which are disconnected from the main parts. Instead of rotating the model in all possible directions and lasso selecting the parts to cut off it would be nice to be able to just click on a part and remove it completely. Is such a feature possible? Is it maybe already there and i'm just not able to find it? Thanks!

I'll try ply import, thanks. When I import without voxelization, then the whole mesh is imported, right? no merging is done... Earlier today I tried a run with a simplified model and had to scale it to about 300M to get the necessary detail...I'm starting to think that i need to improve the creation stage of the model and not rely on later stage optimizations. Since there are a lot of sharp edges (It's a sculpture made of thousands of Katana Swords) I guess voxelization is not really suitable for such a detailed model since I get lots of artifacts on the edges. Anyways, thanks for the help

Hi all, I am trying to import a very large model (around 20M polys), it consists of around 30k intersecting meshes. My initial thought was to use 3D Coat as a good way to Merge those meshes and create a printable STL, after some post processing. The problem I am facing is that once I import it and scale it to something that could be usable detail wise, i get a horrendous Estimated Polycount of a few hunded Million. When i try AutoScale, i get around 600k but once i hit Apply I only get one single blob :/ The thing is, that most (really, maybe 90%) of the polys could be thrown away because of the intersections. (Maybe someone could suggest some program to BooleanUnion all those objects together and create one mesh in a preprocessing step before i get to 3D Coat for all the rest) The other thing I noticed is that while importing an STL the rate at which the model is processed seems to be around 2MB/sec, which is quite slow when you have an almost 2GB file. The OBJ importer is working much faster, but filesizes in OBJ are a lot larger than stl.. Is there any preferred import format for which 3D Coat is optimized? btw my current machine is an i7 with 16G RAM and a Quadro 5600, but I also have access to a 24 Core Xeon with 96G and a FireGL ... which in turn doesn't support CUDA :/ I'd be very greatful for any hints concerning huge files and big polycounts.. Oh yeah, currently i'm on the free trial because i'm not sure if 3D Coat is suitable for my needs, but it looks very promising, a very nice tool to have for 3D Printing. Thanks