Reverse engineering like in Solid Edge (parasolid)
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mdesign
Solid edge (parasolid) has many useful features for working over 3d scans and reverse engineering.
It's mostly about segmenting a 3d mesh into simpler shapes (planes, cylinders, spheres, cones) and extracting surfaces from those segments. More complicated surfaces than planes can be extracted from a 3d scan. There is always a possibility of removing features from a 3d mesh. There is also a unique feature to boolean (subtraction) a CAD tube from a mesh and put a CAD fillet over that edge (between CAD and mesh).
I'm writing about it because it's Parasolid, so maybe it`s possible to move all those reverse engineering features from Parasolid straight to Plasticity.
You can watch some of that here: https://youtu.be/czZQ01ndNTQ?si=lP9PeRncyyhh9H3G&t=30
and here:
To be honest, I bought Solid Edge, which is expensive mostly for those Reverse Engineering features, which are brilliant, I think.
Cheers!!!
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Scott Stephens
I see a use case for
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Nicholas Fox
The question is, how many people do reverse engineering and are likely to want to use it in Plasticity? I would think that the number would be pretty small. I know that I'd never use it, but that does not mean that others won't.