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3D Laser Scanning, HDS?

Question asked by Don Williams on Feb 8, 2012
Latest reply on Aug 3, 2012 by Anna Wood

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I'm a land surveyor and I perfom a lot of 3D laser scanning, or High Definition Surveying, of large areas in industrial settings. Recently we have run into a few prospective clients running solidworks. I was wondering what type of format we would need to export our point cloud for a solidworks end user, and will solidworks be able to handle large amounts of point cloud data? Has anyone used 3D laser scanning data in solidworks?

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Scott Green Aug 3, 2012 2:13 PM
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I would take a look at 3rd party processing software that would get the data sub sampled, and edited s.t. you can be productive in SW with it.

Or take a look at Rapidform Software.

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Anna Wood Aug 3, 2012 2:44 PM
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SolidWorks Premium has an add-in called Scan To 3D that can read point cloud data and create surfaces from the point cloud.

What format you output the point cloud in will depend greatly on what version of SolidWorks or other software tools your customers have.

What are your clients expecting to recieve from you for data? What are they planning to do with the data? What year and version of Solidworks are they running?

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Anna
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