Tris to Quads

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Unfortunately, most CAD-software aren’t very good at exporting Quad-topology or even uniform triangles for that matter. The only way that I managed to get a Quad mesh into Blender from Solidworks was to save the part as a .SAT-file, then opening the SAT-file in MOI3D (Moment of inspiration) which is a light-weight CAD program. In MOI, you simply save the file as OBJ and customize the topology from there.

So the process is:

  1. Solidworks - Save as SAT
  2. Open SAT-file in MOI3D
  3. Save as OBJ with quad topology

I know it’s a late answer, but I hope it’s helpful still. :slight_smile:

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