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

gareth_phillips604

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

MichaelPascoe

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.

S1mon

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.