Reduce PLY File Size StarForge 3D Modeling Software

Decimate Large 3D Scanner Files

PLY, the Polygon File Format created at Stanford, is what many 3D scanners, MeshLab and photogrammetry tools such as Meshroom write, often with vertex colours and millions of faces. Reduce PLY File Size decimates such a scan down to 300,000 triangles, a far smaller file with the same shape, and nothing is uploaded. The cleaned-up mesh becomes a 3D Print STL File that slices without choking. For anyone moving scans into 3D printing, StarForge 3D Modeling Software does free mesh simplification in one step, no Blender decimate modifier to learn.