What’s the best plugin for improving smoothing/increasing faces to smooth out curves like this? I get these models from the manufacturer, but you can see where the back of the chair meets the seat, no amount of SketchUp’s smoothing makes it perfectly smooth in the rendering. What would you recommend for a plugin to fix this?
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you can check thomthom’s subd.
what you see here is the geometry. the only way to get it smoother is to have more geometry.
select the group with the geometry that need detailing, and click on the white ball in the subD toolbar. click on the green one to subdivise more. the red one to subdivise less.
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Also check that the edges in the model are smoothed instead of hidden. Many furniture models in the 3D Warehouse that have been converted from some other software have this error.
You can have better and more predictable subdivisions if your model is made of quads instead of triangles or Ngons.
Here’s an explanation of what are quads triangles and Ngons on a 3D model by Thom Thom
your problem is wrong quad flow which leads to smoothing issues. it can be solved with Max’s retopology modifier or remodeling from scratch in SU+Artisan\SubD