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HIDE and UNHIDE

    10-May-93 16:33:09
Sb: #43226-HIDE and UNHIDE
Fm: Aaron Weintraub 70222,557
To: MICHAEL CORTESE 71035,743
Hi Michael, It's true what Martin says about there not being a routine to do what you want, but I just had a thought that might work, depending on the structure of the model. What if you were to select the entire object, and do a Modify/Vertex/Weld on all the vertices? Then, experiment to get your desired results by changing the Weld Threshold option in the options menu. Keep changing, and welding until your face count is low enough. By deleting vertices that are in the same general area as others, the overall shape should be retained. Again, I can forsee problems depending on your geometry, so, more than likely some manual retouching will be necessary. Overall, though, this seems to be a feasible workaround for having to do the whole thing manually. Aaron