Flattening 3D-scanned metal sheets?

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Advanced Subsurf Modeling - Techniques to Avoid Pinching

Catmull-Clark mesh smoothing

Hello. This addon adds tool “C-C Smooth” to the Specials menu in Edit Mode. It does the “Catmull-Clark” surface smoothing on the selected vertices. It doesn’t do the subdivision step, it just reshapes the selection. Here’s how it looks compared to the built-in Smooth tool: [C-_C_Smooth] If you don’t know how to install a 3rd-party addon you can look in the manual. The script can be downloaded here: catmull_clark_smoothing.py Not sure if it’s useful, I wanted to see what it looked like. At…