Rhino 7 Feature: QuadRemesh

We welcome any feedback you have on this new Quad Remesh features. We encourage any comments or questions be created as new topic in the Quad Remesh Category:

https://discourse.mcneel.com/c/serengeti/quad-remesh

This should make the future topics easier for others to find.

In this weeks WIP you’ll find more improvements to hard edge detection.

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In this weeks WIP you’ll find the addition of 3 new settings for the QuadRemesh command

  1. Target Edge Length - setting this value to a value greater than 0 will let the quad remesh algorithm attempt to compute quads with an edge length as close as possible to the value based on the objects curvature. Using this setting will disable Target Quad Count / Adaptive Size / Adaptive Quad Count.

  1. Multi-Axis Symmetry - Symmetry can now be applied to more than 1 axis. X / XY / XZ etc.

Example Remeshed with XY Symmetry

Example: Remeshed with XYZ Symmetry

Example: Multiple combinations of XY XZ ZY

  1. Adaptive Quad Count - When disabled Adaptive Size value will generate varying size quads but still try to hit the goal of target quad count. When enabled the target quad count will be less respected by adaptive size values in order to better fit the curvature of the shape.
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Brian James has created a quick demo video of using the new Quad Remesh tool in a SubD workflow that you can watch here.

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Hi everyone!

I made an in depth walk through video on how the different controls work in the new QuadRemesh command. Hopefully this video will help you get the most out of this powerful new tool.

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In this weeks 7.0 WIP you’ll find 2 new subtle enhancement features to the new QuadRemesher command.

First: When the preview checkbox is selected and the preview has generated for a single mesh you will see what the mesh face count as well as average mesh edge length the new mesh will have. These results will also be written to the command line as well when pressing OK.

Second: There is now an additional SubD conversion option to remove any creases that may be in the resulting subd. This saves a step of removing them after running QuadRemesher.
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