Oh, and in Max the command is called Mesh Optimize. In Hexagon it's called decimate. Sorry about the mixup.
Both of them end up triangulating the mesh... You may not like that much. But once it's smoothed, you can't tell in the rendering. If you're making an animation, the bends can look little unexpected.

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