If you want to make a very good base mesh, you need to do something called retopology. As you probably discovered, there are some software packages that do this automatically, but they will never be as good as manually doing it. If you want to do it for free, I would suggest blender:<br>
<a href="http://vimeo.com/9260181">http://vimeo.com/9260181</a><br><br>Its free and has good retopo tools. This will of course take a long time to do, especially if you have to learn the software from scratch. I don't know of any automated tools that are free, so I can't help you there.<br>
<br><br>Laxman<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:50 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bentfork@gmail.com">bentfork@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The scans I have a too high resolution to be able to work easily with. I'd like to be able to convert the object into more simple primitives.<br><br>I've been looking at software that bills itself as 'reverse engineering' tools. One cheaper example is <a href="http://www.vero-software.com/products.php?page_id=1&sub_id=26%20" target="_blank">VISI Reverse</a><br>
A crazy expensive version is Rapidform.<br><br>I'm looking for a opensource alternative, or a recommendation on any of the paid version.<br><br>Andrew, I think SuperSkein was one of the things I was looking for. I may look into that if I've the time.<br>
<br><br>I'll try and get some scan data to share for the next meet up. Anyone have any requests?<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 May 2011 13:55, Paul & Andrea Mumby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:themumbys@gmail.com" target="_blank">themumbys@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">There is an STL importer for sketchup. I have used it to import on several occasions. But it doesn't maintain scale. So you need to re-scale your objects once they are in.<div>
<br></div><div>Beyond that, they are not normally as "clean" as a conventional sketchup model (because it contains all the triangles, as it's tessellated as an STL) but still perfectly workable.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Paul</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:08 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bentfork@gmail.com" target="_blank">bentfork@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Greetings 3D experts!<br><br>I've access to a 3D scanner that produces very nice STL files. I've been trying to convert this data into a format that I can easily manipulate in sketchup or solid works.<br><br>I was given some hints at a recent meeting including some cool scripts but I didn't write them down and all I could remember was Meshlab which was good but not good enough.<br>
<br>The solution we seemed to come up with was slicing the model into smaller parts, then exporting it slice by slice. Beyond that I cant remember.<br><br>Hope everyone had a nice sunny weekend!<br><br><br>
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