Advanced Member L'Ancien Regime Posted April 4, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 4, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taros Posted April 5, 2013 Report Share Posted April 5, 2013 Very interesting. Thank you for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member dangre Posted April 5, 2013 Member Report Share Posted April 5, 2013 I am using 3DC just for this purpose. I have a 3D scanner for a small part of my engineering/design business and am finding 3DC very helpful to convert scan data to useful import to SolidWorks. It works very well if not better than expensive coversion software I have demo'd for organic shapes. But, for geometric shapes, I am still looking for software that will interpolate flat surfaces, cylinders, cones, and smooth curves. The big guys (Rapiform, GeoMagic, etc.) do a stellar job of this but thier $20k price is much more than my small scanning side of my business can justify. I will be researching T-Splines and others but after months of research I havnt found the economical solution. Thanks for bring this topic up. I am very happy with 3DC for organic shapes and the price for just retopo is worth it by itself. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member L'Ancien Regime Posted April 6, 2013 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 I am using 3DC just for this purpose. I have a 3D scanner for a small part of my engineering/design business and am finding 3DC very helpful to convert scan data to useful import to SolidWorks. It works very well if not better than expensive coversion software I have demo'd for organic shapes. But, for geometric shapes, I am still looking for software that will interpolate flat surfaces, cylinders, cones, and smooth curves. The big guys (Rapiform, GeoMagic, etc.) do a stellar job of this but thier $20k price is much more than my small scanning side of my business can justify. I will be researching T-Splines and others but after months of research I havnt found the economical solution. Thanks for bring this topic up. I am very happy with 3DC for organic shapes and the price for just retopo is worth it by itself. What you need is Resurf3d http://www.resurf3d.com/ I'd love to see you try it and then post a video here showing the Scanner -> 3dCoat -> Rhino-> Tsplines -> Resurf3d workflow.. Resurf will nail your tspline or NURBS surfaces to the underlying voxel scan mesh at .005 mm tolerances.. Brazil + Rhino = sublime... http://wiki.mcneel.com/brazil/shaders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member dangre Posted April 7, 2013 Member Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 I have looked at Resurf3D but the reviews have been not so good... http://www.rhino3d.com/resources/?id=3267 I just found this: http://www.mesh2surface.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member L'Ancien Regime Posted April 7, 2013 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Bad reviews were from 2011...I'm hearing both are excellent. Holy cow the latest version of Rapidform XOR SP1 is unreal Wouldn't it be sweet if one day 3d coat had this kind of robust retopo/autopo toolset? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member L'Ancien Regime Posted April 9, 2013 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 9, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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