Downstram Application:
A pattern for bronze casting was to be milled on a five axis CNC milling machine, so an Iges128 (Nurbs surface) was required. The pattern was milled out of hardened wax and sent to the foundry for casting.

1. The original sculpture was scanned on three different scanning systems and the data combined to achieve a 1.7 million polygon file	2. The polygonized mesh was brought into our CAD system and organized into 1,632 patches in preparation for Nurbs Surfacing.
3. A Nurbs surface (iges128) was generated. The Nurbs surface is "watertight" and all patch boundaries are tangent	4. The Nurbs surface with patch boundaries shown.
	5. The Nurbs surface has been interrogated for fidelity with the polygonized mesh and a color map generated. All Nurbs patch areas shown as grey are within .005mm (.0002 inches) of the polygonized mesh!