creating surface from datum points

[Guest]

Hi all,



I have series of about 4950 points that are the coordinates of a 3D surface. The points are layed out in a rectangular manner. I wish to place a surface through/on these points.



I've tried putting datum curves through these points, but I can only make the curve (it seems) with splines- which is not what I want. because then the surface curves upside down through the Z ,Y coordinates..



Any suggestions as to how I can lay a surface along these points?



Any ideas?

 

[especial]

Are you doing the first direction and second direction?

 

[especial]

Scratch my reply!! Goodluck!

 

[miked]

you could do that easily with restyle.

The only problem is they want 15k for the module.

I think they have a 90 day demo if that helps.

Mike

 

[dougr]

Have you tried Surface-New-Advanced-From File.



Looks like you can edit this data into IBL format. (http://www.proecentral.com/portal/forum/msgDetail.asp?msg_id=813&for_id=29 )



Wouldn't be surprised if it bombs with 4950 points.



If you want to find out more do a google search on point clouds...

 

[dougr]

Yep..



Your going to have a lot of work.

 

[miked]

www.ptc.com

http://www.ptc.com/products/datasheets/ree.pdf



You drape a surface over the points and refine it until you are happy or your cpu maxes out.



Mike