I am wondering, if it's possible, to scan a part without a CAD File and extrapolate data and measurements from the scan and export that data into a CAD File. If this is possible, how do you do that?
As for the memory, it's always been a problem with Pcdmis. And, of course, there are work-arounds. Most common one for me and scanning, when scanning something BIG and needing a "tight" point cloud is to do it in 'sections'. Scan a section, filter it and so forth, the save the program (sec-1), then save it as "sec-2", close & open sec-2, then change the filter of the existin cloud to 5mm so it is just a ghost of a cloud, then scan sec-2, then save, then save-as sec-3, close & open sec-3, re-filter, and so on. Pretty much, keep the cloud under a million points.
Yeah. And then with PolyWorks, I can scan a single stripe of a million points without blinking. Working with 20+ million points, slow, but solid. Of course, PW also has its own quirks and weaknesses.
As for the memory, it's always been a problem with Pcdmis. And, of course, there are work-arounds. Most common one for me and scanning, when scanning something BIG and needing a "tight" point cloud is to do it in 'sections'. Scan a section, filter it and so forth, the save the program (sec-1), then save it as "sec-2", close & open sec-2, then change the filter of the existin cloud to 5mm so it is just a ghost of a cloud, then scan sec-2, then save, then save-as sec-3, close & open sec-3, re-filter, and so on. Pretty much, keep the cloud under a million points.
Yeah. And then with PolyWorks, I can scan a single stripe of a million points without blinking. Working with 20+ million points, slow, but solid. Of course, PW also has its own quirks and weaknesses.
