Does anyone know any good retopology tools for importing meshes from CAD programs?

AlexOptimal

Hello! I've recently been experimenting with some CAD programs due to how well they handle boolean operations and whilst the stl imports are usually fine some of them have some pretty bad topology around the areas where the bevels/fillets are placed. Does anyone know of any good retopology tools/programs which could improve this process?

Kanni3d

Depends what these meshes are for, and how they are used. A lot of remeshers are out there that will do the trick, 3ds max has quadremesher, which is now native in 2021+ as "Remesher". But using these would not be ideal for real-time, nor would it be optimal for many reasons.

Nothing beats manual work, especially since you can generate a workable low res mesh from cad (.step files have a geometry density slider that will get you somewhere to a starting point).

AdalBertZ

I heard that Moi3D has the best meshing options from the CAD programs. Arrimus3D has a good video example:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6lfRQvXKx8