Documentation

Smart Remesh rebuilds a heavy mesh as clean quads. It is two tools in one panel, because a machine part and a sculpt need different answers.

Smart Remesh (Organic) rebuilds the whole surface as an even quad grid at a face count you choose. For curved, sculpted or scanned models.

Smart Remesh (Hardsurface) finds the model's real edges, rebuilds each flat panel as a single n-gon, and drops the edge loops that carry no shape. For machine parts, props, panels, CAD and scan cleanup. It does not move the surface — every vertex of the result is a vertex the model already had, so the silhouette, the fillets and the panel edges come out exactly where they were.

📺 Video tutorials are included — see the Tutorials section of this page. They cover both halves, the presets, and the chamfer workflow.

Installing. Blender 4.2+: Edit ▸ Preferences ▸ Get Extensions ▸ ▾ ▸ Install from Disk. Blender 4.0–4.1: use the legacy zip in the same download via Preferences ▸ Add-ons ▸ Install. The panel appears in the 3D viewport sidebar (press N) under the Smart Remesh tab.

Using it. Select your model, pick a preset, press Remesh Hardsurface. A new object appears beside the original — the original is never touched. From then on every setting updates the result live. Three presets ship with it: Balanced for most models, Detail when the detector is missing lines you want kept, Flat Panels for models that are nearly all flat panel. Press + to save your own settings as a preset; they live in Blender's config folder and follow you between projects.

Restore Original. The ↩ button puts things back — select any result the add-on made and press it. Works on several objects at once.

Tips. Hold the mouse over any setting for a moment and its full description appears, including the numbers it was measured at on real models.

Credits. Organic mode uses Instant Meshes by Wenzel Jakob, Daniele Panozzo, Marco Tarini and Olga Sorkine-Hornung, redistributed unmodified under the 3-clause BSD licence. Everything else is by 3DRedbox Studio.

Support: https://discord.gg/EC8d7nPsYj