Splitting a single huge mesh into many managable parts (automatic)

UDFX

Hi, anyone know of way in maya (or in an another software) to split a huge single mesh file, anything over 1 million polygons into chunks where each chunk has a max allowed polygon limit (like 10.000 polygons)
Right now I'm doing this by hand but it's not very pleasant really. I've searched google and I'm not sure if I don't know the specific name for this procedure because I can't find anything.

Help appreciated

Alex_J

i dont know of anything specific to that purpose but if you drop a model in unity it splits it up for every like 60k triangles automatically, IIRC.

because zbrush has no trouble handling dense meshes like that, that would be my go to. Just go to ortho camera and use the split brush or polygroups and you could split it up pretty fast like that.

another caveman

https://www.sidefx.com/products/sidefx-labs/sidefx-labs-tools/
Mesh Slice will do that ! Out of a 3d grid sized from your bounding box.

UDFX

another caveman said:

https://www.sidefx.com/products/sidefx-labs/sidefx-labs-tools/
Mesh Slice will do that ! Out of a 3d grid sized from your bounding box.

This sounds awesome (and the rest of the tools as well) I mainly use Maya but this might be the time to take a visit to houdini land once and for all.