When you create a mesh, you typically use the Mesh Buildup Wizard. If scan data is constituted by line-type point clouds, however, boundaries are not easy to maintain in their original shape while you generate the mesh.

If you manually triangulate using the 3D Triangulation command in the Addins menu, you will get better a result [...]

Problem:
When you pan a model in XOR/XOS, based on ATI graphic (Radeon or FireGL series) and Preferences > Hardware > OpenGL > Frame Buffer Save/Restore is “FBO” in the application,

Fig1. Preference Setting
the model unpredictably moves in the Model View as shown in the image below - fig2 and fig3.

Fig2. Before Panning

Fig3. After Panning
Solution:
You [...]

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 [...]

Rapidform user Local Motors has posted another installment about how they’re using XOR with a Z Corp Z Scanner to create SolidWorks models of components for the new car they are creating.  Local Motors has only had Rapidform for about a month, but they are already putting it to very good use.
LM: Engineering Blog - [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Local Motors, who just bought Rapidform XOR, had this to say after their first day of training.
LM is a fascinating company.  They’re a spin-off of MIT that is working to make vehicle production a local, customized affair.  They’re combining advanced engineering capability (especially 3D scanning!) with web 2.0 community capabilities to let people directly affect [...]

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 [...]

In this module, we create a CAD model of a plastic security camera housing from 3D scan data using XOR. The redesign techniques used assume we’re going to liveTransfer the model to SolidWorks. Incorporating various solid modeling techniques in XOR, we can RE the part in about 2.5 hours. This is a good exercise for practicing parametric modeling methods. This is a highly recommend tutorial for intermediate users.

We’ve put together a white paper outlining the techniques and advantages of what we call third-generation reverse engineering. Click here to download a copy in PDF format. Feel free to share this with colleagues as well.
To summarize briefly: 3G RE is the process of making a full CAD model from 3D scan data, [...]