Hi
A kind sponsor of our race team scanned our engine recently. I have received the data from them as an igs and stl file. If I open the data in solidwwrks, using scanto3d, I can create a mesh of the engine, but whenever I try and create the surfaces I just get an error saying surfaces cannot be generated. Any help would be much appreciated. Please find enclosed a screen shot of the mesh.
Cheers
Dave Murray
Cardiff Racing
www.cardiffracing.com
A kind sponsor of our race team scanned our engine recently. I have received the data from them as an igs and stl file. If I open the data in solidwwrks, using scanto3d, I can create a mesh of the engine, but whenever I try and create the surfaces I just get an error saying surfaces cannot be generated. Any help would be much appreciated. Please find enclosed a screen shot of the mesh.
Cheers
Dave Murray
Cardiff Racing
www.cardiffracing.com
If you have an IGS file, is it just a point cloud or is it nurbs surfaces? Try to open IGS without ScanTo3D, and see if your sponsor already did the work. I'm not sure there is any simple advice one could give a novice to make this kind of work doable, other than to encourage you to learn about the process with any of the tutorials included. Where you go with it also depends on what the end use of the data will be. If all you need is a display in an assembly, the STL data may be good enough, using a graphics body. If you want a parametric model, you will need to go a step further, and rebuild the part with features, which will take some additional patience.
Best of luck.