Poly's'Gone is your premier solution for advanced 3D polygon to 2D vector line art conversion, used for documentation and illustration purposes. Poly's'Gone is not producing an ordinary hidden-line rendering you are familliar to receive by using a CAD application! Poly's'Gone strength is a special hidden-line rendering technique. It produces thick lines indicating an objects contour and thin lines that represent the visible inner edges of an 3D object. All of this even with export to a scaleable vector file - no pixel based image! This is by far much more than any CAD package is capable off!

By using 3D CAD or modelling applications for architectural and mechanical engineering, it is still an issue to process, reduce and simplify the high degree of accuracy that is inherit to 3D files down to the requirements of technical illustration and documentation. Furthermore, the usage of pixel based images exported from CAD programs is usually not recommended for integration and processing with existing illustrated parts catalogues (IPCs) and technical manuals.

Most of the time, they are too colorful and have a fixed raster resolution that can lead to headaches when going to press.

Unraveling the difficult task to go from 3D CAD to 2D vector illustration is where Poly's'Gone comes to play - simply export parts and assemblies from your favorite 3D program as OBJ (Wavefront / 3D Paint) or VRML file format and convert with Poly's'Gone to a convenient 2D vector file right away. Of course, this conversion can be performed according to an existing layout or drawing style guide for your vector line images.

With Poly's'Gone you not only get a reliable hidden-line-removal, you will get an illustration with thick lines indicating object contour and thin lines representing visible object edges for your preferred parallel or perspective projection view! This is a real bonus for recognizing and understanding any objects in 2D illustrations for all kind of publishings!

After finishing the 3D->2D conversion, you can export your 2D visible-lines vector-drawing as a Computer Graphics Metafile (ISO/IEC 8632) or a SVG file from Poly's'Gone and continue either with further processing the CGM / SVG file in a suitable drawing program or import to an appropriate layout application and place your drawing as is into layout. In addition, you can even reduce the number of vector lines prior to export by applying the new Merge-function. This new feature removes overlapping vector lines from your 2D rendering result and therefore reduces line clutter and file size!

The common, usage-proven and all over documentation business accepted style of "Thick-Thin Drawing" for technical illustration is, if ever possible, hard to achieve with 3D applications. Most of the time, one has to fight with 3D program set-up for receiving all material and contour lines and the proper perspective view matching an existing style guide. Poly's'Gone is fixing these issues for you, so you can use your time on other tasks!

This high demand in mind was our goal to develop Poly's'Gone! Download a full functional, save-disabled trial version.