Thanks to mrdic as well; I watched the Youtube video about Instant mesh and will try in a few minutes. That goes to the same direction, indeed.
How do you fill the gaps within freecad (that will be probably my next step!)?
Thansk again to all for your help.
How to scaleup a .step object in only one direction?
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Re: How to scaleup a .step object in only one direction?
Forgotten to mention about softwares: for Windows 10, please...
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Re: How to scaleup a .step object in only one direction?
Ok with InstantMesh: perfect!
I did the mesh quad simplification. Then, import to Freecad, but only the "alias mesh" option works well (not the .obj). What should I do now, as the faces are not recognized? Thanks (I am starting with those tools, thus sorry if this is obvious for you...)
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I did the mesh quad simplification. Then, import to Freecad, but only the "alias mesh" option works well (not the .obj). What should I do now, as the faces are not recognized? Thanks (I am starting with those tools, thus sorry if this is obvious for you...)
Thanks
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Re: How to scaleup a .step object in only one direction?
Perhaps more details, sorry: if I import the new simplied qud-mesh in the Mesh menu, that is OK. But, then, for shape, then solid building, again, it leads to tri- and not quads anymore. Ok the initial mesh has been largely simplified, that is already one positive step. But is it not possible to maintain the quad?
Thanks
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Re: How to scaleup a .step object in only one direction?
point cloud
under "see also" you have cloudcompare, not a user myself, but would be very surprised if it was not possible to do it all there
meshlab will do it as well, it might take a while to get used to ml though, and workflows sometimes are a bit awkward (there is for example not cut command, but you can essentially do the same by putting facets on different layers).
blender is another alternative, also a quite daunting user interface
once you have a tidy pointcloud/mesh, fc will easily cut and transform that. tidy here means that a remesh algo is run for simplifying the whole thing (read less points).
when it comes to the filling you will have to help it by adding triangles manually so that the gap to fill is "squared off" - the algo will be on strike if the required amount of facets to fill the hole is too large, same goes for too large curvature (in other words, it will not fill anything that goes 360 deg).
my tools of choice, meshlab for simplifying, fc Mesh_Workbench for the cut/transform/fill, the needed commands are listed at the wiki (and transform is just right-click->transform in treeview and drag it).
however this is just because I know enough to get it done that way, not necessarily because that is the best choice of toolset to use.
under "see also" you have cloudcompare, not a user myself, but would be very surprised if it was not possible to do it all there
meshlab will do it as well, it might take a while to get used to ml though, and workflows sometimes are a bit awkward (there is for example not cut command, but you can essentially do the same by putting facets on different layers).
blender is another alternative, also a quite daunting user interface
once you have a tidy pointcloud/mesh, fc will easily cut and transform that. tidy here means that a remesh algo is run for simplifying the whole thing (read less points).
when it comes to the filling you will have to help it by adding triangles manually so that the gap to fill is "squared off" - the algo will be on strike if the required amount of facets to fill the hole is too large, same goes for too large curvature (in other words, it will not fill anything that goes 360 deg).
my tools of choice, meshlab for simplifying, fc Mesh_Workbench for the cut/transform/fill, the needed commands are listed at the wiki (and transform is just right-click->transform in treeview and drag it).
however this is just because I know enough to get it done that way, not necessarily because that is the best choice of toolset to use.
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Re: How to scaleup a .step object in only one direction?
Hi to all!
Just to thank everyone who gave tips and advices on this topic that is now solved!
1. InstantMesh to simplify the intial scanned mesh
2. Import under FC/Mesh + some mesh repair, etc...
2. Converted to shape and solid
3. Upper faces identification through Draft/Facebinder
4. Extrusion of those faces
5. New solid ready.
Again, thanks to each of you!
Best regards
Just to thank everyone who gave tips and advices on this topic that is now solved!
1. InstantMesh to simplify the intial scanned mesh
2. Import under FC/Mesh + some mesh repair, etc...
2. Converted to shape and solid
3. Upper faces identification through Draft/Facebinder
4. Extrusion of those faces
5. New solid ready.
Again, thanks to each of you!
Best regards