Official Standard approach to optimize a 3D model with Pixyz Studio

Optimizing a 3D model with Pixyz Studio is a straightforward process that involves a series of steps to ensure the best possible results. Pixyz Studio is a powerful tool designed to handle complex and large data, making it an ideal choice for CAD data preparation and optimization. Here's a standard approach to optimize a 3D model using Pixyz Studio:

1. Import the 3D model: Start by importing your 3D model into Pixyz Studio. The software supports a wide range of input formats, including native CAD files from industry-leading CAD solutions like CATIA, Siemens NX, SolidWorks, CREO, Inventor, and STEP.
2. CAD Tessellation: Once the model is imported, the next step is to perform CAD tessellation. Tessellation is the process of converting CAD data into a mesh of polygons, which is more suitable for real-time 3D visualization and game engines. Pixyz Studio offers best-in-class tessellation algorithms to ensure high-quality results.
3. Decimation: After tessellation, you may need to reduce the number of polygons in the model to improve performance and reduce file size. This process is called decimation. Pixyz Studio provides advanced decimation algorithms that allow you to maintain the visual quality of the model while significantly reducing the polygon count.
4. Optimize the Product Structure: Pixyz Studio preserves the original product structure (hierarchy) of the imported CAD data. You can optimize this structure by merging, splitting, or reorganizing the tree to better suit your needs.
5. Manage Part Occurrences and Prototypes: Pixyz Studio allows you to work with instances and prototypes, which can help optimize your model further by reducing memory usage and improving performance.
6. Adjust Face and Vertex Normals: To ensure the best visual quality, you may need to adjust the face and vertex normals of your model. Pixyz Studio provides tools to easily edit and optimize normals.
7. Animation (optional): If your model includes animations, you can use Pixyz Studio to manage and play them back to ensure the animation quality when exported has been retained.
8. Export the Optimized Model: Once you have completed the optimization process, you can export the optimized 3D model to a suitable format for your target platform, such as Unity, 3DS Max, Maya.

By following this standard approach, you can efficiently optimize your 3D models using Pixyz Studio, ensuring high-quality results and improved performance for real-time 3D visualization and gaming applications.

 

Also the Pixyz documentation can help answering more advanced questions. Not to mention the "Working with Pixyz Studio" section for a deep-dive in Pixyz data preparation.

 

Hello @guyvandenbosch , thank you for your comment and feedback. And for suggesting some feature improvements to our support and Product Management team. We'll have a look and see what is feasible regarding manual polygonal selection.
In the meantime, have you tried the

repairMesh()

orientFromView()

or

smartOrient()

functions in Studio? Any luck?

 

Hi @mgear , those particular steps would include the use of features like:

mergeFinalLevel()

mergeByTreeLevel()

mergeByRegions()

Most of them are available in the Scene menu, check it out and give it a try!


As for step 6., the creation/regeneration of part instanciation can have a quite positive impact on your overall model size, and complexity, and boost the rendering performances in your favorite 3D engine (assuming that engine does support instances). Unity does.

algo.createInstancesBySimilarity([1], 0.980000000000, 0.980000000000, False, True, True)