Hi Burr, there are specialized kinds of reverse engineering software that will do that kind of a thing, it is a pretty detailed process of fitting surfaces to that scanned data.
Some software you could try for that:
Raindrop Geomagic: http://www.geomagic.com/en/
headus CySlice: http://www.headus.com.au/
Rapidform: http://www.rapidform.com/
A few different ones for Rhino are listed here: http://www.rhino3d.com/resources/?category=13
Some of the best software for doing this tends to be like in the $10,000 range or so, it is not an easy thing to handle.
MoI is just not focused on this entire area of reverse engineering, I don't think that it is really feasible for it to ever really get focused on that myself but maybe in future versions when I have more emphasis on enabling 3rd party plugins, some other developers may offer some kinds of plugins to do that kind of a thing...
Rhino generally has a lot more of these kinds of reverse-engineering type tools in it, so if you need to do that kind of a thing probably Rhino would work best for that purpose.
So it is definitely possible, but it is not a focus area for MoI, you'll need to explore other software to handle it.
- Michael |
