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How To Create a High Quality Mesh-Fit Surface

By Rob Liebert • Aug 22nd, 2008 • Category: Advanced, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOR

XOR’s Boundary Fit Surfacing function helps you to easily create a surface body using boundary curves on the mesh, even if the mesh is a complex freeform shape.
This technical tip will help you understand how to create a high quality fitting surface.
Step 1: Mesh Optimization
To get a high quality fitting surface, you will first need [...]



How To Extract True Scale Section Profiles from CAD and Scan Data

By Rob Liebert • Aug 22nd, 2008 • Category: Intermediate, Success Blog, Tech Tips, XOV

In XOV, you can obtain several types of inspection results, such as deviation maps, section profiles, etc. during the inspection process. However, the results will be recorded as captured images. If, instead, you want to print out sections at their true scale, you can export them via the *.dxf file format.
Method:
First of all, you can [...]



How to Trim a Mesh using a Curve or Ref. Plane

By Mike Tsang • Aug 19th, 2008 • Category: Intermediate, Product News, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS, XOV

When you import scan data, the data will be loading in the software, and a new Mesh Feature will be added in the Feature Tree. Sometimes, you can have additional items created after the Mesh Feature, but you will not be able to immediately be able to trim the mesh using these items. This is [...]



Full Face Fillet

By Mike Tsang • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Novice, Tech Tips, XOR

Using the Full-Face-Fillet command:
The “Full Face Fillet” option is used for rounding or capping ribs and other exterior part features. This option uses three adjacent face sets and allows the creation of fillet geometry which is difficult or impossible to create using traditional edge-based filleting method. The image below shows an example feature using Full [...]



Beginner’s Exercise: Creating High Quality Boundary Fit Surfaces

By Rob Liebert • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Tech Tips

Create fit surfaces by drawing a patch network on the mesh:

As you can see below, there are some cases where the trimmed surfaces will produce a bad result. Specifically, the “Tangent Constraint On Boundary” option, which uses mesh normals to match continuity, sometimes gives a bad result.
(In General, you should avoid drawing patch boundary curves [...]



Dual-core and multi-threading support in Rapidform

By Tom Charron • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Tech Tips

We recently had a customer ask us this question:
I’m currently building a new machine for running RapidWorks, and we will have a great deal of scanning data to process, taken from very large objects requiring the merge of dozens of scans. We need to find a sweet spot between cost and performance, and it would [...]



Data formats for Leica HDS long range scanners

By Tom Charron • Jul 9th, 2008 • Category: Tech Tips

Leica HDS laser scanners use Cyclone software to do initial processing and cleanup of the data.  If you want to use Leica HDS data in Rapidform, you can save the scans in Cyclone as .PTS or .PTX formats, both of which are supported by all Rapidform products.
As an aside, it’s important to know how to [...]



Quick Start Guide

By Som Valliyappan • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Novice, Tech Tips, XOR, XOS

Did you know that Rapidform Softwares come with in-built Quick Start Guide and Tutorials
Show me how to use Quick Start Guide
Show me how to use Tutorials
I am missing my Tutorials/Help Files
Quick Start Guide
Quick Start Guide helps to quickly learn how to use the software and its various commands using interactive and highly descriptive examples. [...]



Frequently Asked Questions

By Som Valliyappan • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: Tech Tips

FAQ on Software Setup
FAQ on License
FAQ on Troubleshooting
FAQ on Software Setup
1. I have downloaded the software but I am not able to install it
Check if you have logged in as Administrator. Only Administrator user can install and update Rapidform Softwares
2. Check for Update button does not work
Check if you have logged in as Administrator. Only [...]



How to handle scan data which is far from the global origin

By Som Valliyappan • May 16th, 2008 • Category: Tech Tips, XOR, XOS

Problem
When you import long range scan data such as a building, a huge statue, a ship and so on, the origin of these data may be far from global origin of the application. Thus you may not normally work with these scan data in the application. One of problems is that you cannot create solid [...]