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Hi, there.
I am working on a project of processing stl data. I have a problem:
In order to show a stl surface rapidly, I need to decrease the number of triangles in the mesh. For example, I have a STL file which contains 2000 triangles, but I only want 1000 triangles. How can I make the mesh smaller?
Thanks for your help!

Hello VJay
I do not believe we have a built-in functionality for that. I suggest using some other tools. We are more focusing on parametric technologies.
Plese get in touch if you really need this in DGK. It would not be a problem to add.

You could also implement it yourself using mesh construction functionality like in Morph sample. There should be algorithms available on the web, including some open source.

We have few refinement methods. See the MeshOps sample.

Regards

See also: Reducing meshed objects for analysis (restored)