I am measuring a feature that is somewhat round but has lot of jagged edges. I want to use all of the areas to calculate the area. I am measuring this using hundreds of points. Anyone have any ideas ? I have searched for answers but can't seem to come up with any.
surface area? is it cylidrical, kinda like a gear shape? Or more hemi-spherical? 2 approaches I can think of would be to construct datums and take measurements to get a "circumference" (assigning and then summing the assigned variables of the distance measurements), OR taking the surface area of a shape the part would fit into (like a hemisphere) and then adding to that area using the same idea of assigning variables with measured values from constructed datums (because the hemisphere is going to have the smallest possible surface area and any grooves, edges, etc. are going to give it more surface area). EXAMPLE: If I wanted to know the surface area of a gear I could take lines on all the teeth surfaces (at same height and on level) and cunstruct points where they intersect, take a measurement from each peak and valley, assign all those measurements to an array, sum the array, and multiply by the height. I don't often use code like that in my programs so I'm not going to try and write out that example for you but it isn't too hard and the help files are detailed.
surface area? is it cylidrical, kinda like a gear shape? Or more hemi-spherical? 2 approaches I can think of would be to construct datums and take measurements to get a "circumference" (assigning and then summing the assigned variables of the distance measurements), OR taking the surface area of a shape the part would fit into (like a hemisphere) and then adding to that area using the same idea of assigning variables with measured values from constructed datums (because the hemisphere is going to have the smallest possible surface area and any grooves, edges, etc. are going to give it more surface area). EXAMPLE: If I wanted to know the surface area of a gear I could take lines on all the teeth surfaces (at same height and on level) and cunstruct points where they intersect, take a measurement from each peak and valley, assign all those measurements to an array, sum the array, and multiply by the height. I don't often use code like that in my programs so I'm not going to try and write out that example for you but it isn't too hard and the help files are detailed.
