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AverageInspector
Guru's,

I am once again coming to you for aid;

I have yet to fully utilize the magical functions that lay dormant deep deep inside the menu bar and because of that I am hoping someone on here has journeyed far from the custom quickmeasure toolbar that I have grown accustomed to.

I have a mech engineer that wants to reverse engineer a CNC machine component on the CMM to make in-house, and in the past I have just taken a *** ton of manual points on the part, constructed some features and reported the XYZ actuals out for them to hand-key into CAD software... Nightmare for them.

I vaguely remember working with someone at Northrop that was able to export point data into a file format that could be uploaded into CAD software with the same aligned coordinate system to do the same thing, without the tedious entry of various nominals.

Is that what the "FILE -> EXPORT -> POINTCLOUD" function is for or is it another tool somewhere else?

Any help is always greatly appreciated.

At the moment programming on 2022.2 SP4.

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  • . Use ADVANCED SCANS, scan features using an alignment that matches the Datums of the CAD.
    1. CREATE GOOD BASE ALIGNMENT
    2. ADVANCED SCAN ALL FEATURES OR PROFILE YOU NEED
    3. UN-MARK ANY FEATURES YOU DO NOT WISH TO EXPORT / MARK FEATURES TO EXPORT
    4. GO TO : FILE/EXPORT IGES/ NAME AND SAVE FILE IN APPROPRIATE LOCATION/ HIT ENTER
    5. IGES FILE EXPORT WINDOW POPS UP
    6. CHOOSE ALIGNMENT FROM "ALIGNMENT" DROP DOWN
    7. CHECK MARKED FEATURES ONLY
    8. HIT "SETUP" BUTTON
    9. CHOOSE "OUTPUT" : I USE "SCANS AS POINTS" AND SCANS AS COPIOUS DATA FORM 2
    10. EXPORT
    11. OPEN 3D CAD SOFTWARE. I USE SOLIDWORKS
    12. GO TO FILE LOCATION AND OPEN IGES FILE
    13. ***YOU WILL HAVE TO PLAY WITH THE "IMPORT SETTINGS" IN YOUR CAD SOFTWARE TO GET EVERYTHING TO WORK JUST RIGHT.
    14. ONCE YO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY IMPORTED YOUR FILE YOU CAN CONSTRUCT REFERENCE PLANES AND OPEN SKETCHES TO START DRAWING AND DIMENSIONING.
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  • . Use ADVANCED SCANS, scan features using an alignment that matches the Datums of the CAD.
    1. CREATE GOOD BASE ALIGNMENT
    2. ADVANCED SCAN ALL FEATURES OR PROFILE YOU NEED
    3. UN-MARK ANY FEATURES YOU DO NOT WISH TO EXPORT / MARK FEATURES TO EXPORT
    4. GO TO : FILE/EXPORT IGES/ NAME AND SAVE FILE IN APPROPRIATE LOCATION/ HIT ENTER
    5. IGES FILE EXPORT WINDOW POPS UP
    6. CHOOSE ALIGNMENT FROM "ALIGNMENT" DROP DOWN
    7. CHECK MARKED FEATURES ONLY
    8. HIT "SETUP" BUTTON
    9. CHOOSE "OUTPUT" : I USE "SCANS AS POINTS" AND SCANS AS COPIOUS DATA FORM 2
    10. EXPORT
    11. OPEN 3D CAD SOFTWARE. I USE SOLIDWORKS
    12. GO TO FILE LOCATION AND OPEN IGES FILE
    13. ***YOU WILL HAVE TO PLAY WITH THE "IMPORT SETTINGS" IN YOUR CAD SOFTWARE TO GET EVERYTHING TO WORK JUST RIGHT.
    14. ONCE YO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY IMPORTED YOUR FILE YOU CAN CONSTRUCT REFERENCE PLANES AND OPEN SKETCHES TO START DRAWING AND DIMENSIONING.
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