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
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| 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. |
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| 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! |
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6. The Nurbs (iges128) surface
has been converted to a solid and rendered in a
downstream application. |
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