Today I have MoI combined with SWX. Usually I use SWX to import point cloud data that produce from scanner 3D. Today I have customer who sent to me a huge point cloud data. The file is point cloud data from piping system and building. Any body have experience on handling huge point cloud data, whats the best software that can handle this ?
Hi Anis, Geomagic (http://www.geomagic.com) tends to be mentioned often for processing point cloud data, that might be a good place to start.
Rhino also has some specific tools for point clouds, that may also be worth checking out.
The kind of thing you're talking about is often called "Plant design" - try searching for terms like: point cloud plant design to find some various specialized software for that kind of stuff, like this:
You can try Meshlab here http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ and theres a 64-bit version available as well. It can be difficultto use, but it is free. On my 32-bit system I can work with files with several million points, but if the files get close to 10 million points it starts crashing. I imagine the 64-bit version would be better.
Geomagic is US $10000 and up, depending on options. I thought I read somewhere you can purchase a license for a short time period, but I am not sure if that is true. I have an version 8, and I think they are on v11 or 12 now. Its much easier to use than Meshlab if you can tolerate the price.
I have SolidWorks Standard, so I don't have the scan to surface option for comparison. I imagine there might be some 3rd party plugins that might handle large data better.
Looks like Geomagic & Rapidform more concern on product design ( CAD ). For Meshlab, it has some limitations.
I still dont have final decision. Still watching some of the video of those product above to see more deep the features.
I've worked with Geomagic Studio many years ago for handling point cloud data from human scans and sets. At the time we tried Paraform 3d(don't think it exists any longer) and Rapidform : It was precisely in the most complex circumstances that GS was out shining the others(particularly in repairing fine defects after the tessellation, like overlapping surfaces and inverted normals). Also it has a very high quality system for converting the point data to nurbs surfaces/subd's.
Autodesk Plant Design should have point cloud tools (all current AutoCAD based products do). I am not sure how good they are since I don't work with point clouds.
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