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Hello,
I'm relatively new to Design X and try to figure out a proper workflow for this problem:
I have a 3D scan of a part, for training purpose I scanned the underside of a spoon (the real parts are pretty comparable). And as the end result I want a block with a cutout where the spoon fits in nicely to be held in position.
Triangulating and cleaning the mesh is pretty straight forward. And even auto fitting a surface to the mesh is fine. But how can I make a 3D cutout into a solid from a surface thats open on one side?
It would be great if someone could give me an example workflow for this type of task. If someone has suggestions for useful tutorials that would also help me a lot.
Thanks for you help

Cheers
Welded

I don't know Design X, but in Solidworks or Solid Edge or a 3D modeler, I'd use a ruled surface (or a straight line cross section swept surface) around the outside of the spoon shape, knit together the spoon surface and the ruled surf and sink it down into the solid, then use the surface to cut away the solid. Not sure how much help that is, but that's how I'd do it in a solid modeler.

matt wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 6:12 pm I don't know Design X, but in Solidworks or Solid Edge or a 3D modeler, I'd use a ruled surface (or a straight line cross section swept surface) around the outside of the spoon shape, knit together the spoon surface and the ruled surf and sink it down into the solid, then use the surface to cut away the solid. Not sure how much help that is, but that's how I'd do it in a solid modeler.

I thing this workflow is in principle what I want to do. My problem is, that I don't know how to generate the spoon surface in a way that it will fit to the ruled surface. Probably I make some mistakes that lead to small misfits between the two surfaces.
I would really like to see how someone with more experience than me goes through the hole process.

first pics would help.
can you show the scan to see what have.
I do not know GEOX, I use SW with DezignWorks to turn our scans into surfaces and solid so we can either add to exsiting parts or CNC Machine.
I use a Romer arm that both probes and scans right into SW, I have take meshes from other scanners and made parts.

Does the scan have the outside shape to be able to create the outer profile?

You can see both the cloud and the mesh of the scanned part here:


I only scanned the underside of the spoon, as the other side doesn't matter anyway and the shape seemed hard to scan in one go or to combine two scans as its so flat.

Thank you for having a look on my scans.

Use 'Cut with Surface'.

1. Transfer the surface created in DesignX to SOLIDWORKS
2. Create a solid block in SOLIDWORKS positioned where you want relative to the surface
3. Cut with Surface.

I would not recommend fitting a surface if, ultimately, you want to get the model into Solidworks. I would suggest using the "mesh sketch" to get the cross sections. Then creating the different features from the new sketches. Go through the process of recreating the model which will then translate that into Solidworks. From there it can go directly into Solidworks with the respective features.