“reduce facets” operation

[unnos]

How does the "reduce facets" operation in Spaceclaim work?

Are facets simply deleted on a stochastic basis or multiple facets merged into larger ones?

What is the underlying mathematical principle for this? I could not find an explanation in the Ansys documentation.

[Atharv Joshi]

Hello Unnos, 

You can check the help doucmentation Reducing the Number of Facets (ansys.com)

The model or selection is re-faceted with fewer triangles based on the Triangle reduction and Maximum deviation specified.

Regards

Atharv