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How are you checking the dimension? Point to point? Plane to plane?

There are a few of us....

The command you used does not obtain the XYZ coordinates of a point, it merely gets the point's location in the tree. You want this command:

TREEVIEW PRIMITIVE POINT PROPERTIES POINT GET (  )

What commands do you feel are missing?

There is a visual lay out available in Innovmetric's Technical Support Zone which allows the cutting of cylindrical cross sections.

It will use a cylinder to cut a section at the intersection of scan data with the cylinder wall, then "unroll" the section to make it planar.

Perhaps this is what you're looking for?

Whoops! Maybe that's why there haven't been many new members lately... I've fixed it, thanks for letting me know!

You will need nominal primitives to calculate true position, however there is an easier way to create them. Once you've measured all your features, you can create duplicates of those measured features, then swap them to nominals. Then you can edit each new "nominal" numerically to give it the proper values. After that, you can match then back up to your measured values.

After you've done one part like that, you basically have a CMM program you can "run" for the next part.

Separate topics would be best.

Anything specific that you're hung up on?

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I have imported PTX in the past from a Surphaser scanner and it worked well and did not loop.  However, I did not have a 3GB PTX file.  I might be able to dig up a PTX file for you to import and test.  If you would like for me to test importing a file of yours let me know - it could be a computer performance thing.

//What version of Polyworks? 32 or 64-bit? What kind of memory? What kind of graphics card?

My rule of thumb was to use a min step slightly less than the accuracy of the data. That made sense to me and worked pretty good. Sometimes it creates large data files, but I'd rather worry about that later.

I'm trying to generate a point cloud from a CAD file.  I would like to specify a max point spacing when generating the point cloud.  I can't figure it out. 

Please help  :)

Ha!  So true.  It was soooo nice when we went to a network license. 

I have sprayed developer on machined parts.  It doesnt add much thickness to the part and comes off.