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Mine won't stand on it's own with the scanner attached either. my lock is holding for now. (romer infinite arm).

i'm away from my polyworks console this week and was asked by my sales guy to open an stl file and give him the volume of the part. i dont have solidworks yet :(. in all the time i have been working with this software, i have never even looked or noticed if it will give mass properties. will it?

i created a curve network by starting with fillets to do the boundaries of my part (and any areas of curvature that weren't boundries) because there are no sharp edges on it. i then used standard curves to fill in any areas between the boundries that needed it. so i have fillets around the edges, and standard curves in the center. one problem i am having that i wanted to mention, is that if i ad planer constraints to my center patches, it warps my radii at the fillets. i even added the constaints before i fitted the patches, and it still caused problems.

well, i just re-scanned the part and probed my holes in the last fixtured position. then i aligned all of my other passes to the last position so that everything was in the correct place. worked great! i know there must be a way to align everything together after the fact, but i couldnt hit upon it. if anyone does have any similar experiences along these lines, i'd love to hear about it

"'Cut Holes with Curves' could be a function you can use. Just create a circle from your cylinder in IMInspect, edit it numerically to 1 and import it into your IMEdit project. After closing both sides of the model surface you can use the curve to create a watertight cylinder."
I get this, but how do i align my probed hole that i created in im inspect to the nurbs model in im edit. i cannot refixture my part to the exact location in which i scanned it. so even though i can align everything in im inspect and probe my holes. when i import them back into im edit, they are in the wrong spot. i played with the function that allows you to save a new initial position to no avail. i also tried a few other things. any ideas?

thank you

i have only tried to use the reference point alignment once, but i will familiarize myself with it .. i am scanning into im align, then i usually reduce my overlapping layers, save it, and then open it in im inspect.

it could be a boss, a centerline, or a non machined dimmension that we have to hold a tolerance to.

when you compare your scanned images (castings in my case), to a reference file, is best fitting your data and reference objects together good enough for an accurate result? do i actually need to fit planes to elements and use the 3 perpendicular planes alignment in addition to the best fit? the reason i ask, is because i have a bore that probes, and is 13.210, and my laser data when compared to cad shows its within .025 per side, or about .050 total. the nominal dim is 13.00 btw. i would pass this casting based on the laser data and end up with 0.040 machine stock, which would not be acceptable. i believe all of my alignments were very good while scanning.

perceptron scanshark. i am finally getting to the point that i can produce some decent models. i lose some curvature detail sometimes when i get into a hurry to finish one, but i'm not producing these for customers, just practicing.

Can someone please remind me what the acceptable max error is for the laser calibration to the sphere. i'm thinking less than or equal to .015

well i emailed them and they sent me the pre-release. yay. i'm sure i'm the only one that didn't know this, but you can do some limited 2D stuff in v11 using cross sections, and dimmensioning them. i suppose it's kind of a moot point now, but thats what i did

oh ok thanks

well i don't have the pre-release of v12, i will have to wait till october i guess. so sad

i dnt see v12 yet in the "new releases" section of the innovmetric tech support zone. i'm going to call them and see whats up