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Points
Species whether duplicated points are to be eliminated.
Tolerance
When eliminating points you may enter a tolerance value. If points are closer to each other than this
value, then they are merged into one point; if the points are further apart than the value, they won’t
be merged. If polygons become redundant (e.g. if all three corner points of the polygon occupy the
same point), CINEMA 4D will automatically delete them.
Subdivide
With this command you can partition polygon objects or splines. If no polygons are selected when
subdividing a particular polygon object, then all polygons are partitioned. Otherwise, only the selected
polygons are subdivided.
Subdivision
The number of subdivision steps to be applied. Proceed with caution — the number of surfaces (or
the number of points), and therefore the RAM required, for any object rises dramatically with each
increase in this value.
For triangles and quadrangles, with each extra subdivision step a polygon is divided into four surfaces.
So, if the object initially has three surfaces, a single subdivision results in 12 surfaces, a second
subdivision results in 48, a third in 192 and so on.
For n-gons, a point is created in the center of the n-gon; edges are then created that run from the
center point to the n-gon’s original corner points. The new polygons are made up of triangles and
quadrangles.