Remove webbing from model

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The picture is an escalator model exported to .obj and imported into Daz Studio. The green part shows the webbing problem. This is the model: https://www.blendswap.com/blend/6671

Sometimes a Blender model will produce webbing in Daz Studio. I have so far fixed such models by editing the geometry to remove the relevant concave n-gons.

But this escalator model seems un-fixable.

I think it has to do with that fact that the n-gons in question are made from curves and the object they are part of has multiple instances.

I tried converting the curves to meshes.

I tried editing the geometries as usual, in edit mode.

I tried exporting it to Daz and then re-importing it to blender (edit again) and exporting it to Daz again.

But no matter what I do, the webbing persists.

Is there a way to reduce the blender model to a pure mesh with no modifiers of any kind so that it will be truly editable such that I can remove the webbing?

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n-gons do cause these artefacts.

Add a Triangulate modifier as the last modifier to all the offending objects to ensure they have only triangles when you export.
Expand the Geometry panel in the export settings.
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Ensure the “Apply Modifiers” option is ticked.

Good luck.

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Thank you so much, zeroskilz.

I’m sure your solution would work. Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to try it.

Instead, I dug deeper into the model and found two more instances of the big n-gon. I just deleted them 'cause they were redundant glass surfaces.