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Scan to 3D any good?

Scan to 3D any good?

Scan to 3D any good?

(OP)
Do any of you use this for reverse engineering at all?

Interested in the overall experience with this feature.

1) What shapes does it suit? Parametric or organic?

2) Can it repair surfaces, i.e. knit?

3) Can it create pure parametric shapes using the point cloud data?

How mature is this feature? How does it compare to something like geomagic? Not?

RE: Scan to 3D any good?

We usually have it done by an outside company. Last model I know of they got the point cloud data and was able to make a parametric model of that data, however the model could not be adjusted, so I ended up redoing the model myself using the point cloud model as a reference.

I have been looking at the Next Engine scanner and they claim to have the software to make a parametric model from the data acquired from object.

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
Berry Plastics
Cad Admin\Design Engineer
www.scottjbaugh.com

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RE: Scan to 3D any good?

(OP)
Hi SBaugh,

yes, although i do most of the RE myself, onetime an external company also supplied us with such a non-editable potato solid. Totally useless.

That RapidForm software from Next Engine sure looks sweet, feature recognition, editable afterwards, feature tree exportable to SW directly.

Not sure how battleproof that software in is practice though, would  it be as good like in their demo...

Anybody experience with this product mayby?
 

RE: Scan to 3D any good?

321GO,
This is a service I used 2 years back on a B757 HSTAB leading edge. They scanned it, and even made a Solidworks model for me for about 500 bucks. See attacahed flyer. (the images shown is the leading edge part)

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 3.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer

RE: Scan to 3D any good?

(OP)
macduff,

do you know which software they used?
 

RE: Scan to 3D any good?

can't remember, but did you try there website?

www.reversemodeling.com

 

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 3.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer

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