Overview

Digitized Shape Editor enables you to read, import and process parts digitized to clouds of points. These clouds of points can then be used in Quick Surface Reconstruction, DMU, Surface Machining, or exported to various other formats.

Digitized Shape Editor in a Nutshell

Digitized Shape Editor:

  • proposes several import formats,
  • takes special characteristics of imported shapes into account (free edges, facets, ...), if requested,
  • ensures a fast processing of clouds (that may contain several millions of points) through filtering, activation and removal functions,
  • makes the manipulations of the various elements constituting cloud of points (points, scans, grids, meshes) easy,
  • provides edition functions such as merging and aligning of clouds, or creation of planar sections,
  • provides display and analysis functions of the cloud,
  • keeps the architecture of objects processed,
  • provides tessellations to be used directly with other applications or for visualization,
  • exports the models created to several formats.

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 6 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 6 products. It also describes the general layout of Version 6 and the interoperability between workbenches.

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step user tasks, which cover all product functionalities.

The Interface Description section, which describes the commands that are specific to Digitized Shape Editor, and the Customizing section, which explains how to customize settings, will also certainly prove useful.