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 Triangulation 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).
• Convex Hull: Creates a surface that envelopes the selected geometries
  
• 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.
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.
The non-planar polyline to surface is the upgrade from the previous version of this tool.