Inventor is not able to view point clouds

[linuskotte]

We'll get a inventor model of the huge cover . And we need to do a cross check old model to new scanned point clouds.

Inventor is not able to view point clouds, so the idea is to import inventor model to autocad . Do a cross check to point cloud notice the changes and put them into the inventor model . Move the flanges in the correct position.

This is the client mail.

iam not  understanding this mail. Presently iam using autodesk inventor 2012 .

what is point clouds?

i know little bit of point clouds.

Please Tell me clearly this mail concept and how to start this work. Client is provided scan files.

[MariaManuela]

Hi,

Wikipedia explains very well what Point Cloud is (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_cloud)

We have a lot of customers that use 3D scanners to, for example, reverse engineering.

The last case that I am reminded is a case of a helmet. The customer wanted in 3D. He had no designs....nothing .... just the helmet. The solution is get the point clouds with a 3D scanner and send it to a CAD system....is a quite difficult but possible.

I know that AutoCAD and 3D Studio can read point cloud.

Read the topic:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor/Point-Cloud-files-in-autodesk-Inventor/m-p/3146764/h...

May be that 2013 bring news 😉