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Mesh License?

I am new to PC-DMIS with the 3D scanner. I am likely missing something simple here. 

How do you make a mesh instead of a point cloud? 
I can scan things as a mesh bit as soon as the file is saved and re-opened it reverts back to a very un-sexy point cloud. (the engineers like sexy mesh models) 

Google and the help file has said I just need to insert a mesh, which I do not have an option for?

This is what my HASP unlocks...
Key Version No: 16
PC-DMIS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PC-DMIS 3.25 Enabled
PC-DMIS BIG COP
PC-DMIS Bundle Alignment
PC-DMIS CAD Output Translator
PC-DMIS CAD++
PC-DMIS COP
PC-DMIS DCC Scanning
PC-DMIS Display CAD
PC-DMIS DMIS Translator
PC-DMIS Expire : 2023-12-13
PC-DMIS GD&T Selection
PC-DMIS Laser Probe
PC-DMIS Laser Probe Type: Romer Integrated
PC-DMIS Online Interface-Romer RDS
PC-DMIS Sheet Metal
PC-DMIS Stats Output
PC-DMIS Tactile Probing
PC-DMIS Vendor-Brown & Sharpe

Any ideas? 

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  • I am also leaning towards PolyWorks for the laser scanning abilities, but Inspire also looks very capable. For portable, PC-DMIS might not be the best option. I have nothing to compare with at the moment though.

  • At the risk of being banned... And clearly stating that I have almost no experience using the Demon for scanning (the boss hates it based on decade old information and no actual usage experience Rolling eyes)

    But alas, we have been using PolyWorks with blended touch trigger and scanning routines and it works quite well for simple datum structures. We hard probe the datums and then scan the bulk of the part. We have found that for complicated datums it can fall short, the more rigid structure of PCDMIS will help out a great deal.

    We asked the Hexagon salesman for a trial of Inspire when he was onsite, but never heard anything back. That lack of follow up did contribute to us purchasing another seat of PolyWorks. 

  • At the risk of being banned... And clearly stating that I have almost no experience using the Demon for scanning (the boss hates it based on decade old information and no actual usage experience 

    I'd strongly recommend giving PC-DMIS portable a try, it's come a long way in the last 10 years.  My predecessor made considerable improvements for the portable arm and tracker user experience.  My current team have also added a number of improvements such as adding the constructed extracted features, adding the 3D Mesh profiles, improving performance when working with large data sets, being able to create a COP from the CAD model and many more.  Certainly when it comes to handling complex datum structures, PC-DMIS's geometric tolerance command is way ahead of the competition.

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  • At the risk of being banned... And clearly stating that I have almost no experience using the Demon for scanning (the boss hates it based on decade old information and no actual usage experience 

    I'd strongly recommend giving PC-DMIS portable a try, it's come a long way in the last 10 years.  My predecessor made considerable improvements for the portable arm and tracker user experience.  My current team have also added a number of improvements such as adding the constructed extracted features, adding the 3D Mesh profiles, improving performance when working with large data sets, being able to create a COP from the CAD model and many more.  Certainly when it comes to handling complex datum structures, PC-DMIS's geometric tolerance command is way ahead of the competition.

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