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How big can a point-cloud file be for onshape? And do you all recommend a specific app for this?

gareth_phillips604
gareth_phillips604 Member Posts: 2 ✭
in Community Support
I have a project that requries me to work with raw data from a Point-cloud or STL file. I am trying to determane which of these would be the most viable file format and if there are any apps within onshape to help me out with this? There will be a fair bit of surfacing to do as the part is very curvy.

Any help would be hugely appreciated!

Kind Regards

Gareth 
M.D.-Ventarus Engineering

Answers

  • MichaelPascoe
    MichaelPascoe Member Posts: 2,945 PRO
    edited August 2024

    Here is a custom feature someone made for importing a CSV to Points
    Click the plus button at the top of the screen to add it to your toolbar.


    RENDERCAD
    rendercad.ai - Photorealistic product rendering.

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  • S1mon
    S1mon Member Posts: 4,516 PRO
    If you have an STL file, you can import that directly and use it as a reference. Onshape can do mixed modeling with mesh and NURBs CAD. You can align sketches and/or 3D curves to vertices of mesh data.

    If you're doing a lot of reverse engineering from point clouds and/or mesh data, there are other tools which are more suited for that type of work.

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