Hello,

Looked through the archive but couldn't find any good answer.
I'm importing an object form Archicad (via 3ds format) to LW and need
to do some amendments in Modeler, but... there are lots of triangles
(circles!) there and it's hard to work efficiently with this...
So, is there any function, plugin or script that reduces neighbouring
polys with common points and laying 'in-line' to one n-poly (of course
automatically)?

Aleksander Lenart

Aleksander Lenart wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Looked through the archive but couldn't find any good answer.
> I'm importing an object form Archicad (via 3ds format) to LW and need
> to do some amendments in Modeler, but... there are lots of triangles
> (circles!) there and it's hard to work efficiently with this...
> So, is there any function, plugin or script that reduces neighbouring
> polys with common points and laying 'in-line' to one n-poly (of course
> automatically)?
> 
> Aleksander Lenart
> 

Reduce Polygons should do it. I use this workflow ( ArchiCAD -> 3ds file 
-> Lightwave ) all the time.

You could try saving as an OBJ as that supports n-gons as well.

jw.