3d Coat and T-splines for Reverse Engineering

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[Taros]

Very interesting. Thank you for this.

[dangre]

I am using 3DC just for this purpose. I have a 3D scanner for a small part of my engineering/design business and am finding 3DC very helpful to convert scan data to useful import to SolidWorks. It works very well if not better than expensive coversion software I have demo'd for organic shapes.

But, for geometric shapes, I am still looking for software that will interpolate flat surfaces, cylinders, cones, and smooth curves. The big guys (Rapiform, GeoMagic, etc.) do a stellar job of this but thier $20k price is much more than my small scanning side of my business can justify. I will be researching T-Splines and others but after months of research I havnt found the economical solution.

Thanks for bring this topic up. I am very happy with 3DC for organic shapes and the price for just retopo is worth it by itself.

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I am using 3DC just for this purpose. I have a 3D scanner for a small part of my engineering/design business and am finding 3DC very helpful to convert scan data to useful import to SolidWorks. It works very well if not better than expensive coversion software I have demo'd for organic shapes.

But, for geometric shapes, I am still looking for software that will interpolate flat surfaces, cylinders, cones, and smooth curves. The big guys (Rapiform, GeoMagic, etc.) do a stellar job of this but thier $20k price is much more than my small scanning side of my business can justify. I will be researching T-Splines and others but after months of research I havnt found the economical solution.

Thanks for bring this topic up. I am very happy with 3DC for organic shapes and the price for just retopo is worth it by itself.

What you need is Resurf3d

http://www.resurf3d.com/

I'd love to see you try it and then post a video here showing the Scanner -> 3dCoat -> Rhino-> Tsplines -> Resurf3d workflow..

Resurf will nail your tspline or NURBS surfaces to the underlying voxel scan mesh at .005 mm tolerances..

Brazil + Rhino = sublime...

http://wiki.mcneel.com/brazil/shaders

[dangre]

I have looked at Resurf3D but the reviews have been not so good...

http://www.rhino3d.com/resources/?id=3267

I just found this:

http://www.mesh2surface.com/

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Bad reviews were from 2011...I'm hearing both are excellent.

Holy cow the latest version of Rapidform XOR SP1 is unreal

Wouldn't it be sweet if one day 3d coat had this kind of robust retopo/autopo toolset?

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