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Reverse engineering in CAD from point clouds

  • May 10, 2013
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We use a lot of point clouds, a few here and there for GIS/Civil application. Our more common usage are using land laser scan in big existing plants (brown field,) place them as reference in our CAD software to do the CAD design of existing structures, equipment, etc. We then redraw what is exiting on top of the point clouds.

 

 

We can have hundreds of designers and engineers spending time re-drawing the objects on top of reference point clouds.

 

 

If we could recreate surfaces of structures and equipment, to recreate the shape of walls, beams, piping, etc. That could save use an enormous amount of time (and money)

 

 

We do have many Point clouds management software and add-ons for CAD, but always look for alternate solutions; does anyone found ways of recreating thos type of shapes efficiently from Point cloud using FME?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best answer by takashi

Hi,

 

 

I don't think there is a perfect way to do that automatically. But the articles below might be helpful to cut down some cost: Creating a Raster from a Point Cloud Raster to Vector

 

 

Takashi
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  • May 12, 2013
Hi,

 

 

I don't think there is a perfect way to do that automatically. But the articles below might be helpful to cut down some cost: Creating a Raster from a Point Cloud Raster to Vector

 

 

Takashi