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Scansite Case Study #130

Scanning a manequin and building an iges 128 CAD model

Problems and Opportunities:
The original manequin was provided at full (life)size.

Downstram Application:
The client will bring the iges128 into Maya for animation.

This type of "watertight" iges128 file could be imported into almost any downstream application, including ProEngineer, SolidWorks, SolidEdge, MechanicalDesktop, Catia, SDRC IDEAS, SurfCam, MasterCam, DelCam, FeatureCam, Alias, SoftImage, 3DStudioMax, Maya, FormZ, Imageware, Rhino, and many more

Original manequinn model 1. The manequin was scanned using our scanning systems and the data combined to achieve a 900,000 polygon file. 2. The polygonized mesh was brought into our CAD system and organized into 270 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!
6. The Nurbs (iges128) surface has been converted to a solid and rendered in a downstream application.  

 

 

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