This software helps reduce the polygons used in a highly accurate model create with some CAD/CAM system. This may be required to make the model light weight for use in other applications such as real-time visualization. The Home and student edition lets you continue the work at home if you like as also for students who could use a comparative light and inexpensive version for learning purposes.

VizUp Streamline Ultimate is designed for optimization of accurate but complex 3D models. Usually such models would have been created in regular CAD/CAM/CAE systems. However for real-time visualization which must re-render the model for various viewing conditions, this is a very compute intensive job. Your regular desktop may not be up to the task and only solution is to reduce the number of polygons used in modeling the item and yet maintain visual faithfulness. This software is a 3D reduction and optimization tool that speeds rendering and yet controls a 3D model`s visual quality. The product allows you to achieve polygon reduction, which can be compared to manual work of a designer. 3D model formats suggested include Wavefront .OBJ, VRML 2.0/97 and StereoLitho (.STL) file formats.

VizUp has a very simple user interface. The main item is the 3D viewer and a toolbar that has commands and options readily available. VizUp performs the compression automatically with a single click on the reduce button. Compression at different ratios is done at the same time so that you do not have to do it again if you are not happy with the results of a particular compression ratio. VizUp doesn`t change the coordinates of the vertices and thus the rendering quality is easily maintained. You can examine the result by displaying a model as a set of textures, a set of smooth surfaces colored according to the material properties, as an object consisting of flat polygons, as a wireframe, or as a set of vertices. A wonderful tool for the specific needs!