[Aa...] Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Do we have the ability to perform a GD&T profile check on a set of surface points? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Lu...] Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 Hi Aaron, In my opinion, it is not possible to check the surface profile because the nominal geometry is missing at this point. However, you can at least inspect surface points for flatness (that would be a surface profile without datum). The procedure would be as follows: 1) Right-click on the surface points, then Select all Points 2) Construct -> Plane -> Fitting Plane 3) Inspect this plane for flatness in I-Inspect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Aa...] Posted January 29 Author Share Posted January 29 Hi Lukas, The procedure would be as follows... 1) Construct nominal surface patch 2) Construct nominal surface points 3) Apply a GD&T profile check for points using the following dialog options... Point list to be checked --> Select the points Nominal feature to base tolerance zone on --> Select the nominal surface patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Lu...] Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Hi Aaron, it sounded to me like you don't have nominal geometry, otherwise you can of course do it the way you described. Best Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Aa...] Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 Hi Lukas, So we can check profiles on surface points? This capability exists now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mi...] Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Hi Aaron, yes, you can check surface profiles on surface points if the nominal surface is constructed as a patch compound and the actual surface points are inserted into a point cloud. The neccesary construction steps are shown in the attached video. surface_profile_with_actual_point_cloud.mp4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Aa...] Posted January 31 Author Share Posted January 31 That's awesome! I did not know we could do that. I will try that out as soon as I get a chance. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Aa...] Posted February 1 Author Share Posted February 1 Is this a new feature for the 2023 version? I tried this process with my 2018 version but it gives me an invalid element error when I attempt to apply the GD&T profile control to the surface patch compound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ch...] Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Computation of surface profile on point clouds was introduced with the 2022 release of the software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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