Digitized Shape Preparation

What's New

Digitized Shape Preparation Basics

Related Guides and Resources

Digitized Shape Preparation Access to Content

Customizing Preferences

Offline Mode

User Interface

Action Bar

Standard Area

Digitized Data Section

Digitized Data Section: Primary Area

Digitized Data Section: Secondary Area

Wireframe Section

Wireframe Section: Primary Area

Wireframe Section: Secondary Area

Context Toolbars

Curve on Mesh

Action Pad Panel

Predefined Queries

Introductory Concepts

About Import Files

About Aligning

About the Transformations Commands

About the Limit Element in Mesh Morphing

About Flipping Edges

About Planar Sections

About Constraints for Curve from Scan

About Creating 3D Curves

About Curve on Mesh

About Lines

Displaying Clouds of Points or Meshes

Activating a Portion of a Cloud of Points

Extracting Data from a Cloud of Points

Importing and Exporting

Importing Digit Files

Exporting Content

Exporting Clouds of Points or Meshes

Managing Large Clouds

About 3DXML Import/Export of Large Clouds of Points

Importing Large Digitization Files

Opening and Editing Large Clouds of Points

Extracting and Converting a Portion of a Large Point Cloud into a Regular Point Cloud

Aligning Clouds

Aligning using the Robot

Using Fast Alignment

Aligning by Best Fit

Aligning Clouds with Constraints

Aligning with RPS

Aligning Clouds Using Spheres

Aligning a Cloud Using the Previous Transformation

Solving Constraints Errors While Aligning Clouds

Performing Transformations

Translating Geometry

Rotating Geometry

Performing a Symmetry on Geometry

Transforming Geometry by Scaling

Transforming Geometry by Affinity

Transforming Elements from an Axis to Another

Editing Clouds

Filtering a Cloud

Removing Elements from a Cloud of Points

Protecting Characteristic Lines

Performing Operations on Clouds

Merging Clouds of Points

Disassembling Data from a Cloud of Points

Splitting Meshes or Clouds

Working with Meshes

Creating or Regenerating Meshes

Creating a 2D Mesh

Creating a 3D Mesh

Connecting Several Meshes

Tessellating

Flipping Edges

Preparing Meshes

Creating Cloud Primitives

Creating Clouds/Points

Decimating Meshes

Refining Meshes

Smoothing Meshes

Smoothing With a Brush

Optimizing Meshes

Offsetting the Mesh

Creating a Rough Offset

Trimming or Splitting a Mesh

Merging Meshes

Projecting a Mesh on a Plane

Performing Boolean Operations

Modeling Using a Grid

Morphing Meshes

Performing Analyses

Displaying Information

Performing a Deviation Analysis

Creating or Editing Scans

Creating Free Edges

Creating Planar Sections

Creating Automatic Planar Sections

Creating Planar Sections

Projecting Curves or Scans

Creating Scans

Discretizing Curves

Editing Scans

Creating or Editing Curves

Creating 3D Curves

Applying a Tangency Constraint on a Point

Creating 3D Curves on a Scan

Creating a Curve on Mesh

Creating Curves from Scans

Creating Wireframe Elements

Creating Points

Creating a Point Using Coordinates

Creating a Point on a Curve

Creating a Point on a Plane

Creating a Point on a Surface

Creating a Point Using the Center of a Circle/Sphere/Ellipse

Creating a Point Tangent on a Curve

Creating a Point Between Two Points

Creating Lines

Creating a Line Between Two Points

Creating a Line Using a Point and a Direction

Creating a Line Normal to a Curve

Creating a Line Tangent to a Curve

Creating a Line Normal to a Surface

Creating a Line at the Bisection of Two Lines

Creating a Line Up to an Element

Creating a Series of Lines Using the Last Point

Creating Planes

Creating a Plane Offset From another Plane

Creating a Plane Parallel to a Plane and through a Point

Creating a Plane Normal to another Plane

Creating a Plane Through Three Points

Creating a Plane Through Two Lines

Creating a Plane Through a Point and a Line

Creating a Plane Through a Planar Curve

Creating a Plane Normal to a Curve

Creating a Plane Tangent to a Surface

Creating a Plane Using an Equation

Creating a Mean Plane Through Points

Creating a Plane Between two Planes

Creating Circles

Creating a Circle with a Center and a Radius

Creating a Circle with a Center and a Point

Creating a Circle with Two Points and a Radius

Creating a Circle with Three Points

Creating a Circle with a Center and an Axis

Creating a Bitangent Circle (with Two Elements)

Creating a Bitangent Circle (with at least a Point)

Creating a Tritangent Circle

Creating a Circle with a Center Element and a Tangent Curve

Techniques

About Keyboard Shortcuts

Using Points in Generative Shape Design

Working with Drafting

Reference Information

Digitized Shape Preparation File-based Design Import

Digitized Shape Preparation Database Design Import

Polyhedral Geometry in Digitized Shape Preparation

Converting a Mesh/Scan/Cloud of Points into a Polyhedral Feature