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Re: What would be the best way to surface a mesh?
Have whoever gave you the curves only iges file a surfaces iges file. I really don't think there's any good way to go from 6,000 curves to surfaces in a very fun or accurate manner.
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Re: What would be the best way to surface a mesh?
I tried the filled surface feature but SW only allows me to pick one mesh box at a time. I did a number of them to see how it looked but it didn't look like a solid. Is this normal because of graphics or just not a good way for the surface.
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Re: What would be the best way to surface a mesh?
You used a surface feature therefore SW created a surface. If you create enough surfaces to form a watertight group of surfaces, you can then create a solid from them.
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Re: What would be the best way to surface a mesh?
Does the Import Diagnostics tool correlate to the mesh boxes in that if I was to surface each box separately in the end it would be a watertight surface. Or are they two different things.
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Re: What would be the best way to surface a mesh?
Do you only have the curves? Or do you have the mesh too? (This is what a mesh would look like ... https://demos.teamplatform.com/pages/12240?t=9t4tjk)
If you have curves, I bet they are just cross sectional curves, right? If so, you are not going to be able to use those curves easily.
Is it something that you could imagine lofting? The curves loops would have to be closed, of course.
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Re: What would be the best way to surface a mesh?
What quality of model do you need? Why are you remodeling this in SolidWorks?
If you need a high quality NURBS surface, you are going to have to learn how to create these surfaces, and it is not something you are likely to pick up in an afternoon.
This is where I typically link to my site with a bunch of presentations, but it is down for a couple more days because I had to thwart some efforts from hackers.
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Re: What would be the best way to surface a mesh?
After seeing your screen-shot, I have to ask the same question: Why are you remodeling this in SolidWorks?
These curves seem to be coming off of some type of design file (some sort of computer graphics program) and it doesn't look like sections derived from scan data. Based on the your screenshot, someone, somewhere has a high-quality geometry of the shape and they decided to only send you cross sections.
Are you modeling this in SolidWorks because you need as a solid or surface for simuation, assembly, or machining?
If you can track down the original shape, you may find a way to convert the computer graphics geometry to an IGES/STEP surface format that you sew together in SolidWorks. If you can't find a way to convert the computer graphics model into a surface file suitable for SW, then you'll almost certainly be able to export the geometry as triangulated meshes (polygons). From there, you can use an automatic surfacing approach with a high-patch-count to get a geometry that will be useable in SolidWorks (ScanTo3D might be able to do this, but I think it will depend on the richness of content of the geometry. If there is too much complexity of shape, then the polygon mesh density may be too high for the add-in). Either of the approaches described here will provide a faithful representation of the original shape, but you need to get that original shape first.
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Re: What would be the best way to surface a mesh?
Thanks for the input guys. This is an artist model for a candy mold done for us. I think we will go a different route on this one. Thanks again for the responses and information.
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Re: What would be the best way to surface a mesh?
What software pacakge did your artist use? If we know that we may be able to offer some options for moving the data between their program and SolidWorks.
Cheers,
Anna
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