Join our MCAD Central community forums, the largest resource for MCAD (Mechanical Computer-Aided Design) professionals, including files, forums, jobs, articles, calendar, and more.
All you need to do is create curves through those points. Curve creation is very important as on that only the surfaces will be created. Normally we dont prefer Pro/E to create scan curves, we do it in Imageware. Then we take those curves in Pro/E & then make our own curves in Pro/E to retain the history. Its is helpful in one big way if you follow this method of creating curves. As the curves are created in Pro/E you can edit it also to get your required shape.
I hope you got a picture of it. I had mostly used this approach for most of the works & got surfaces close to point cloud data.
The products is mainly casted metal. We do some benchmark of competitors design and verification of our own.
<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />
moose
Geomagic is a separate program, it was included with the scanner.
We hired someone to do it full time so I havent used it in awhile.
Here is what I found in the help section of WF2:
<h1>About Creating Analytical Surfaces</h1>
When creating analytical surfaces,
<ul>
<li ="kadov-p-CTopic-Text-Bulleted">
You can first select a domain and then select the
required surface-creation tool. Restyle automatically creates the surface. You
can also select the tool and then select a domain.
<li ="kadov-p-CTopic-Text-Bulleted">
If you click the Domain check
box, select a domain to define a surface. Otherwise, you must select a point on
facets for creating a planar, cylindrical, or extruded surface or one or two
points on facets for creating a conical or revolved surface depending on whether
you do or do not define the direction for creating surfaces.
<li ="kadov-p-CTopic-Text-Bulleted">
Clicking the Full check box
creates a complete 360 degree surface for cylinder, cone, or revolved surface;
or for surface based on a closed section for extruded surface. You cannot use
Full for a flat surface.
<li ="kadov-p-CTopic-Text-Bulleted">
Before creation of an analytical surface, you can
select only datum points as origin points. While modifying an analytical
surface, you can select any location on the facet as a reference for the origin
point.
<li ="kadov-p-CTopic-Text-Bulleted">
When you select a datum point for the origin
reference, the analytical surface is located in such a way that its origin point
exactly matches the selected datum point in its final position.
<li ="kadov-p-CTopic-Text-Bulleted">
Before creating a surface, you can optionally
select a datum axis, datum plane, or surface to specify the direction. For
conical, cylindrical, and revolved surfaces the defined axis is the axis of
revolution.
<li ="kadov-p-CTopic-Text-Bulleted">
After the surface is created or when you are
modifying the surface, you can modify the coordinates of the origin and the
angles of direction. You can also move the origin parallel to a defined
direction by selecting a point on the facet model. This is especially useful for
conical surfaces and extruded surfaces with a draft angle.
<li ="kadov-p-CTopic-Text-Bulleted">
Restyle uses the coordinate system to recalculate
the coordinates of origin and the direction angles. You can specify the
coordinate system to be used for these calculations. Otherwise, Restyle uses the
default coordinate system.
[/list]
Note:
Selecting proper references such as datum axes or datum planes results in
accurate creation of analytical surfaces.
i am also doing something like this but i used the "blend from file" feature. i created an ibl file where the coordinates of my points are stored and proe did the rest like curve generation and surface smoothing.
the problem is i don't like the result. is there any way of choosing the method of curve generation? like if i want a cubic spline curve to connect the points?
i am not familiar with the algorithms that proe uses. can anyone shed a light?
This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register.
By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
ffice