Surface Triangulation Tools Overview

The Surface Triangulation Tools sub-menu of the Geometry menu provides an array of tools that can be used to edit model visibility and transparency. The following options are included in the Surface Tools menu:

• Re-Triangulate Surface: A feature-preserving surface re-triangulating tool that improves the quality of triangulation.
• Simplify Triangulation: Simplify geometry by reducing the number of triangles to improve operation efficiency.
  
• Merge Surfaces: Combine touching surfaces and resolve intersections at where they meet.
• Form Closed Triangulation: Taking a single or multiple surfaces and form closed boundary(s).
• Ungroup Disjoint: Separates a surface that has clear disconnected parts.
• Ungroup Non-Manifold: Separates a surface (e.g. T junction) at places where more than two faces meet and disconnected parts.
• Create from Selected Faces: Merge the selected surfaces and outputs the surface in patches if there is any obvious disconnected parts.
  • Note: the ability for this function to resolve the intersections between surfaces is the upgrade from previous versions of this tool.
• Create Triangulation from closed Polyline: Form surface from a closed polyline, planar or non-planar.
  • Note: The non-planar polyline to surface is the upgrade from the previous version of this tool.