Jeff
We do not have these capabilities but from what you described it sounds like you could use a CGI reverse engineering machine to gather point cloud data. You can translate point cloud data to IGES, STL or just about whatever you like. Depending upon how intense of analyzation you want to do you could bring that translated point cloud data into just about any CAD package for color comparison, and most CAD packages offer IGES output.
I hope this helps.
If you have any questions regarding my reply feel free to contact me directly, phone or email.
Brad Van Dike
Yazaki North America
734.983.1704
bvandike@yazaki-na.com
>>> JeffK@protomarket.com 10/17/01 01:18PM >>>
Hello RP-MLers,
I have a question about 3D digitizing. I have a client who is having
trouble with the process control on some extrusions. The extrusions are
about 14" long, and are "C" shaped in cross section, so there is only a
narrow opening along the length of the extrusion. There are a couple of
secondary operations; the extrusions have an opening routed out of the
center of the piece, perpendicular to the length. An insert is then
sonicly welded into the opening, and then two endcaps are sonicly welded
onto the ends. We suspect that these secondary operations are causing
deformities which is negatively impacting performance. In order to
properly analyze this, we would like to do comparisons of acceptable and
defective assemblies and compare the two. Questions:
1. What methods can yield accurate internal dimensions when the width of
the opening is smaller than the internal dimension?
2. Once two 3D models have been created, is there a way to overlap the two
and call out the differences using color gradients or some similar method?
3. What type of data is created? Could it be exported to IGES?
Any shops that have relevant capabilities, please contact me directly via
e-mail. Thanks.
Jeff Katz
President
www.ProtoMarket.com
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