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Need help with the function "scan minimum" when creating a circle

I have a part an where I need to measure a contact angle of a circle contacting 2 other circles as well as the radii of these 2 other circles.


At the moment I use 3 scans to achieve this.
  1. One scan to evaluate the radius #1 (just the left side)
  2. One scan to evaluate the radius #2 (just the right side)
  3. One scan from left to right (over the top surface) to generate a contact circle which contacts a point left and right each to calculate the contact angle. I use the function "scan minimum" to create the contact circle.


One problem I have, is that the scans are a bit rough/jittery. This results in the contact angle not being very stable.

What I want to do now is the following:
  • get rid of the third scan from left to right
  • filter the two separate radius scans
  • generate the contact circle from the two filtered scans

The problem is, that the feature "scan minimum" doesn't allow me to input 2 separate scans.
I tried to generate a a set of the two scans and a point cloud to get around this limitation but nothing works.

Does somebody knows a way to get around this limitation? Maybe there is a way to feed all the pints into one scan?
If possible I would prefer a solution without a script but if necessary I would also resort to a script.
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  • Aaron Baldauf There's a limitation with the Scan Minimum command in that it only accepts a single, linear open scan as an input. However, I may have a simple work-around. Rather than creating two separate linear open scans and trying to combine them into one, could you do one linear open scan encompassing all the surfaces you are interested in and then split it into a left & right section? That would allow you to measure everything in one single operation. For the Scan Minimum, you would just use this one scan as the input. For your left and right profiles, you would just construct a left and right set from the relevant hits of the larger scan.
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  • Aaron Baldauf There's a limitation with the Scan Minimum command in that it only accepts a single, linear open scan as an input. However, I may have a simple work-around. Rather than creating two separate linear open scans and trying to combine them into one, could you do one linear open scan encompassing all the surfaces you are interested in and then split it into a left & right section? That would allow you to measure everything in one single operation. For the Scan Minimum, you would just use this one scan as the input. For your left and right profiles, you would just construct a left and right set from the relevant hits of the larger scan.
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