Symmetry detection

[[yo...]]

I recently tried a demo of QuickSurface and in the areas where QS and Zeiss inspect the one thing I was impressed by was the ability in QS to autodetect symmetry by loosely defining a plane with a few points approximately along the symmetry. Then it pretty accurately picks up the symmetry and gives you a reference plane for it. 

Is there any way to do this in Zeiss that I have just missed? 
If not I think it would be an awesome feature and I would think relatively easy to implement. Zeiss can align parts based off features. I would imagine it could be done with the same algorithms by essentially looking for features across a part instead of between two parts. 
 

 

[[Jo...]]

Hi,

I dont know about loosly but you can construct a symmetrie plane of course.

Then there is also a mirror feature that should help getting both planes for that fast.

Techguide seems down atm, so i cant give you a link.

 

And you could write script for that if you really use that a lot.

[[yo...]]

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If you mean a symmetry plane based off other planes created from features then you need features on the part that could be used to construct those planes. For example it would be easy to create centerline planes on a cube by creating a best fit plane on each face and then a symmetry plane between them. But if a part has very organic geometry it could be difficult or impossible to pick up clearly defined geometry to precisely find the center, wheras the algorithm in QuickSurface is able to look at all the points and essentially find a best fit centerline just like Zeiss does best fit features for other things.  

[[Jo...]]

What do you want his for?

You can create a plane out of very "organic" stuff. Thats what fitting algorithms are for.

Inspect does this aswell.

Just construct a fitting plan select all points of your mesh and choose a normal and you got your symmetrie, when you choose Gauß.

 

 

Edited February 24

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This would be for something like aligning the part to the origin so a useful normal has not been defined yet. 
Here you can see how Quicksurface does it. This  is a good example too of a part with very organic surfaces that would be hard to pull features from in Zeiss Inspect to align it to origin. Being able to define one plane based on "best fit", would go a long way in precisely aligning the part to the origin and an axis. It also gives you a plane that you could then apply points, lines, etc, to further align it to origin.