How to fix this mess

nico1984

i recieved a job in wich i have to fix this mesh in order to properly unwrap it and map the textures on it, i am not used to this kind of job, i always create the models from scratch, any suggestion on how to do this in a time efficient way? in this example i've already applied an option within blender called Tris to quads and tinkered with the operator options and this is more or less the best result i've got

oglu

we remodel such things... cleaning does take to long...

nico1984

yea that was my first thought, i was hoping for something more in the realm of " Magic algorithm " way hehe but what are you going to do... thank you for saving me hours of internet digging man!

nico1984

a question though, is this like a bug  or issue in the import or is it the result of poor modeling? i ask because i've imported many obj files and didnt get this result

McDev

Used to work with CAD files a lot where you get stuff like this. There are only two options: Remodel or fix vertex by vertex. In that case you might want to remodel it. There are some decimination tools (which will not help here), but I didn't hear of any retopo tool yet, at least non automatic one.

nico1984

yea i just started remodeling thnks for the answering!

pmiller001

If what you ahve to do is Unwrap it, I'd find a way to select edges by their angles. So for example, I  might harden all edges that are more than 45 degrees, Select those edges, unwrap, then cleanup from there. 

Not sure if Blender has that capability, but I do that In Modo all the time. really speeds up the process. 

You could also use 3D coat. That program is really nice for uvs, especially weird ones like this.

nico1984

i have to bill him the hours that the model took , the question would be, how much time  would take at an intermediate skill level to model this? 

im kind of new about paid work so i dont know these kind of things 

nico1984

it took me like 6 hrs but i figure its too much

nico1984

all the interior of the chair has been modeled as well, as if it were to be printed 

nico1984

For better  appreciation these are all the parts i had to remodel

Violet

This probably doesn't help, as it's for Max, but there's a script called 'Hide Longest Edges' which removes the long edges in the poly and reverts everything to four sided quads (most of the time).

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/hide-longest-edges

nico1984

Violet thx for trying anyway!

nico1984

i know that this question doesnt fit with the topic but how many hours should this take? i need to charge by the hour, and i dont want to over or under charge the client, the complete job is to remodel the mesh and apply  photo realistic textures on it