TVR Scott said:RacetruckRon said:In reply to TVR Scott :
This is awesome. I've thought about picking up a Kinect to do this but wasn't sure if it was worth the effort or not. What file format did you export the scan data as that you could bring it into CAD and what CAD software are you using?
The Kinect and Reconstruct Me produce basic "triangle files" - like an stl or obj. I'm pulling them into Mesh-Mixer, which is also free and pretty powerful. You can do a lot of clean-up and smoothing there, and then I exported back into a newer, much smaller, cleaner triangle-file. These can get get imported into Solidworks (for this I'm using 2017).
In Solidworks, the file can either be imported as a graphics file - basically a 3d picture - or as a surface. The surface import won't work if you have too big a mesh. I want to play around more with other export options in Mesh-Mixer and see if there are cleaner ways of getting files into SW.
This is sort of the very beginning of my scanning. I've already got ideas on how to make them sharper, more accurate, and more useful.
This is exactly what I wanted to hear. I'm off to ebay to find myself a cheapo kinect. My truck needs fender flares and a splitter.