QUADIFY
By Anvil Interactive Solutions
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Quick Start

This page walks through your first Quadify Ultra operation from installation to result.

Install the Add-on

Download quadify_ultra.zip from your Superhive purchase. Open Blender 5.0 or newer and go to Edit → Preferences → Extensions → Install from Disk. Select the zip file and click Install. Enable Quadify Ultra in the extensions list. You do not need to restart Blender.

Open the Panel

Press N in any 3D Viewport to open the N-panel. The Quadify Ultra tab appears in the tab list. Click it to expand the panel.

At the top of the panel you'll see a Suggest a Feature or Report an Issue button — this opens a contact dialog with the support email and a Gmail compose link pre-filled with your mesh diagnostics and system info.

Your First Quadify Operation

Select a mesh object in Object Mode. Use the two Quick Remesh dropdowns to describe your mesh:

  1. "What is your mesh?" — pick the closest description (Scan data, AI-generated, Organic/character, Hard surface, Mixed).
  2. "What do you need?" — Best topology (QuadWild), Fast preview (Voxel + QuadriFlow), or Exact face count (Voxel + QuadriFlow with target).

The run button label updates to show exactly which engine and settings will be used. Click it, or press Ctrl+Shift+Q to run.

Not Sure Which Settings to Use?

Click "Ask AI: How to handle this mesh" in the main panel. The AI Mesh Advisor analyses your mesh and gives instant, mesh-specific advice — including which engine to use and why. Requires an Anthropic API key in the Agent tab. Advice history is saved per session and is collapsible.

Review the Result

After processing, the results card shows:

  • Algorithm used and ML confidence score
  • Before and after face count
  • Quad percentage achieved
  • Processing time

If the result is not what you wanted, press Ctrl+Z to undo. A backup of the original mesh is saved automatically before every operation — you can also restore it explicitly using Restore Original Mesh in the Results panel (available after QuadriFlow and Voxel Remesh modes).

QuadWild Live HUD

When "Best topology" (QuadWild) is selected, a viewport overlay shows live progress — elapsed time and current phase ("analysing geometry" / "quadrangulating patches"). Blender stays responsive throughout. Press ESC at any time to cancel cleanly.

Post-Process Tools

Reduce Poles is available in the Results panel after any operation. It dissolves vertices with 5+ edge connections where it can be done safely without creating non-manifold geometry. Run this after Smart mode for cleaner topology.

Compare Before/After toggles the original mesh as a wireframe overlay on the result.

Local Cleanup

For fixing specific areas after a full-mesh operation, switch to Edit Mode on the processed mesh. The Local Cleanup panel appears in the N-panel. Click Select N-gons to pre-select problem faces, adjust the selection if needed, then click Clean Up Selection. Only the selected faces are processed.

Keyboard Shortcut

The global shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Q triggers the main Quadify operation from anywhere in the 3D Viewport without opening the panel. It uses whichever algorithm is currently selected in the panel settings.