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Measure on an STL part.

Measure on an STL part.

Measure on an STL part.

(OP)
Hello,

I have a scanned casting part, an STL file. I need to compare it with our designed part.
How can i measure this scanned part?
The only hing that is working in the measure menu is "Point on Face", but that is not really accurate when measuring a hole or the distance between two parallel faces.
Are there more ways to measure it?

Thanks in advance,
Tjeerd

Using NX 8.0 and Teamcenter 8 on Windows 7 (64)

RE: Measure on an STL part.

try this:
analysis->deviation-> gauge
this will use faced bodies

RE: Measure on an STL part.

(OP)
Thank you for your answer.
This seems to be the right tool to check the cast part.
Only the tool is not checking all the face.
If i select one face it works, but when i select more faces or the whole part (around 700 faces) the tool only checks about 4 faces.
So i can check a couple important faces but not everything.

Using NX 8.0 and Teamcenter 8 on Windows 7 (64)

RE: Measure on an STL part.

Face Faced body,
you may sew the single faces to sheetbody and compare this with the facet body

RE: Measure on an STL part.

(OP)
Thanks again for your help.
But it doesn't work.
The designed part is one solid body, no single faces. So the sew command doesn't work.

Using NX 8.0 and Teamcenter 8 on Windows 7 (64)

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