Retopo [Retopologize Object ]

This command turns a polygonal mesh (SubD or triangle-based) into a reference mesh. Note that the object’s history, if any, will be lost on conversion. Only the Control Mesh is used for conversion so you should use Subdivide All beforehand to give your reference mesh enough resolution to work with.  

A SubD converted directly to a reference mesh, top row, the same SubD with two Subdivide All operations before converting


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Retopologize Object  

This command turns a polygonal mesh (SubD or triangle-based) into a reference mesh. Note that the object’s history, if any, will be lost on conversion. Only the Control Mesh is used for conversion so you should use Subdivide All beforehand to give your reference mesh enough resolution to work with.  

A SubD converted directly to a reference mesh, top row, the same SubD with two Subdivide All operations before converting

A reference mesh with undesirable holes, left, creating SubD patches, center, and added in as part of the reference mesh, right


From [Create Poly from Reference ]

This command will create a polygonal mesh from a reference mesh. It will probably not produce a quad-based mesh suitable for SubD modeling, but will provide an alternate means of repairing the mesh or setting up selection sets as it has access to all of the regular Power Surfacing selection and selection filtering tools.

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