Meshing large point cloud

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Meshing large point cloud

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Hi,

New to geomagic

Has anyone got a good workflow/ settings to mesh a large point cloud. The point cloud is a laser scan of an old wooden ship and we have been able to get a good mesh of a section of the ship but struggle to do the whole ship.

Can you produce a mesh of a point cloud in sections.

Any advice would be great

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Hi Bill

This may sound strange but work backwards.

Work out what the mesh is needed for and how it is going to be used, you may find you need a lot less data than you first thought.
What level of detail are you after, every rivet in fine detail or a good overall structure to the object.
Is it inside and out, can this be split apart
Find out what your PC running Geomagic can handle remembering that a mesh is almost double the points going in
Try unifying the data in cyclone first 3-5mm is a good starting point, this will remove a lot of duplicate info.
Use the reduce option on import 25% 33% or 50% try them all and see the difference
Make sure the registraion is as good as it can be, Geomagic will take a lot longer and not make nice results if it is poorly registered.
Use the Geomagic decimation can also reduce the poly count without loosing structure.

Great results are possible
4DMax-Example-Data-LIDAR_SS_Great_Britain_Bow.jpg
Good luck
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