Project a scan onto a plane???

[cappleby1]

I have a scan of a part that is relatively flat and I would like to be able to further flatten it by projecting all of my scan points onto a plane.  I was hoping that I could pull out dimensions from the section view of my print from the outside profile of this scan in the software perhaps I could even convert it to a dxf.  I am having trouble using the cross section tool for this purpose because of missing data or reflections from the scanner.  If i can take the scan of the top of the part and flatten it to a plane I may have a chance to do this.  How anyone out there encountered a problem like this?  Here is a Pic of the scan to further illustrate my issue.

[cappleby1]

I am also researching IMEdit.  I think there may be some tools in this module which will prove to be helpful

[jrayself]

Some of the sketch functions in IMEdit should be able to accomplish what you're looking for.

[cappleby1]

Ok so in IMEdit I was able to get exactly what I wanted.  For me I did a destructive test on the part so I cut it open then scanned the face just like the section view of my print using the point cloud method in IMInspect.

Level the scan of the part face to one of the coordinate system planes in IMInspect

Go to the button: Sketches>Create a Sketch (The scanned face must be a polygonal model, I just took my point cloud and meshed it).  The next dialog is Method choose the from a plane (mine was XY), Click Continue.

The next dialog is another Method, For me I choose silhouette edge click preview if you want, then click create.  Now you have a sketch of the profile. No need to sketh at this point if your profile looks good. You can export this as a point cloud and a few other formats like dxf. 


I now have the model of the actual part in IMInspect and I made the cross section on the model to simulate where I did my cut/scan on the real part.  I imported the point cloud of my cut face scan profile i just made in IMEdit however I can't get the two to align.  I have tried every method I could think of but nothing works.  I will post some pics soon





I will post a solution if I can find one, I have already contacted Polyworks.

[cappleby1]

One method that worked for the alignment of these two items is to use the anchor method to create features on each.  With the features it will be possible to do a feature based alignment.

Go figure the most obvious method I did not attempt.  I don't think any of best fit type alignments will work for this circumstance.

Hope this helps any of you out there who will need to scan section view of parts. 8)