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Is it possible to create a mesh from a serie of points?

Hi there,

I'm very new to CAD so that might be something trivial.

I've got a bunch of vectors representing coordinates.

The whole creates a shape in 3D.

From all of those points, I'd like to be able to create a 3D object by entering the maximum of coordinates I've got and get the object out of that.

You can think as the serie of points I've got as forming a cube to make things simple (it's close enough to the form I'm trying to build). I have 10k points to represent it but no idea how to build a 3D object from that.

Thanks a lot for any help or guidance.

Answers

  • billy2billy2 Member, OS Professional, Mentor, Developers, User Group Leader Posts: 2,014 PRO
    yes you can.

    In the early days of OS I was reading in .obj and creating points:


    Notice that I refined density at the midplane.

    I went on to create my own polygon mesh:


    Then OS allowed meshes and I stopped trying to create a mesh:


    So you work with points, vectors or any other primitive. You'll want to look into feature script. Otherwise, write your data in an .obj format and bring it in as a mesh.



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