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?
I used Geo for quite some time, back when we were using a Konica-Minolta scanning camera (80 pounds, took 'pictures' 640x480 points), and it had to be moved, then each 'picture' overlaid (by hand) to the previous, then "automatic" 'mesh' then repeat. Took freaking FOREVER (as in, a small detail would take 2-3 hours). Then, we got the arm, and the Geo work got moved to Cad since I really didn't have time for it, but in the 'move' I used it w/ geo to get him started on the use of Geo, and it was pretty slick. Alignments were kind of a bear, but we didn't have the 'inspect' portion of it (still don't). But, I just scan and dump XYZ files from the cloud and it's their problem now. NOW they are seeing WHY 'sharp' corners are really impossible. That has to be done in a "real" cad package, not a 'data gathering' package (like Geo & Poly really are). Yes, you can 'get close', but not really.
I used Geo for quite some time, back when we were using a Konica-Minolta scanning camera (80 pounds, took 'pictures' 640x480 points), and it had to be moved, then each 'picture' overlaid (by hand) to the previous, then "automatic" 'mesh' then repeat. Took freaking FOREVER (as in, a small detail would take 2-3 hours). Then, we got the arm, and the Geo work got moved to Cad since I really didn't have time for it, but in the 'move' I used it w/ geo to get him started on the use of Geo, and it was pretty slick. Alignments were kind of a bear, but we didn't have the 'inspect' portion of it (still don't). But, I just scan and dump XYZ files from the cloud and it's their problem now. NOW they are seeing WHY 'sharp' corners are really impossible. That has to be done in a "real" cad package, not a 'data gathering' package (like Geo & Poly really are). Yes, you can 'get close', but not really.
