PolyWorks V10 Beginner’s Guide - UNAVCO

1 PolyWorks V10 beginner s GuideFebruary 20073 IMAlign 3 IMEdit 3 IMInspect 3 IMMerge 3 IMView InnovMetric Software Cyrille-Duquet, Suite 310Qu bec, Qu bec, Canada, G1N 4N6 Tel.: (418) 688-2061 Fax: (418) 688-3001 Copyright 2005-2007 by InnovMetric Software Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any way without written permission from InnovMetric Software is strictly manual is furnished for informational use only, and is subject to change without notice. InnovMetric Software Inc. assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccura-cies that may appear in this V10 beginner s Guide3 ContentsIntroduction .. 7 Your beginner s .. 7 For more 7 Before you 7 Getting the data files.

2 8 Typical PolyWorks 10 PolyWorks Basics .. 111. The PolyWorks /Workspace The Workspace Manager interface .. The Wizard window .. Workspace Sharing a PolyWorks 142. Interface Getting Visiting a module interface .. Working in the 3D scene .. Working with objects .. Objects and their Additional End the Close the active PolyWorks workspace .. Exit the Workspace Manager .. 24 ContentsPolyWorks V10 beginner s Guide4 Acquiring Data .. 25A. Scan the part .. 26B. Align the scans .. 27 IMAlign basics .. 27 Exercise #1: A typical alignment 281. Get 292. Import and align 3D Images one at a 303. Optimize the global 3D Image 344. Analyze the quality of the 355.

3 Save and 37 Exercise #2: Auto-align 3D Images .. 381. Get 382. Import and automatically align 3D Images one at a 38 Reverse Engineering .. 41A. Generate a polygonal model .. 43 IMMerge basics .. 43 Exercise #1: Generate a polygonal model .. 441. Start 442. Set parameters .. 443. Start the merging process .. 444. Exit IMMerge .. 44 Additional 45B. Improve the polygonal model .. 46 IMEdit basics .. 46 Exercise #1: A typical editing 481. Get 492. Import the polygonal model .. 493. Edit the Fill Smooth vertices .. Extract sharp 554. Optimize the polygonal mesh .. Optimize the 56 ContentsPolyWorks V10 beginner s Reduce the 575. Extract the shape of the 586.

4 Export the edited polygonal model .. 597. Save the IMEdit editing 59C. Create NURBS surfaces .. 60 Exercise #1: Create NURBS surfaces - manual 611. Get 622. Extract feature 623. Complete the curve 664. Create the curve network .. 705. Fit NURBS surfaces on the model using the curve 706. Export the fitted NURBS surfaces .. 717. Save the IMEdit editing project and exit .. 71 Exercise #2: Create NURBS surfaces - automatic 721. Get 722. Extract feature 723. Perform the 734. Save the IMEdit editing project and exit .. 74 Inspection .. 75A. Inspect the digitized part .. 77 IMInspect 77 Exercise #1: A typical inspection project .. 791. Get 802. Define the Reference object.

5 Import the Reference object .. Create Features on the Reference 823. Acquire the Data object .. 834. Align the Data object to the Reference object .. Pre-align using a best-fit alignment .. Auto-extract measured Primitives on the Data Align using Features .. 845. Measure .. Compare using all data points .. Compare using Cross-Sections .. Take basic 896. Report results .. 90 ContentsPolyWorks V10 beginner s Guide67. Save the inspection project and 90 Exercise #2: Control Feature Dimensions and GD& 911. Get 912. Create the 923. Control 934. Perform GD&T controls .. 945. Save and 95 Exercise #3: Using an automated inspection project .. 961. Get 962. Perform the automatic operations.

6 97B. Share the results .. 98 IMView basics .. 99 Exercise #1: View an inspection 1001. View the categories of objects and their comparison 1002. Take new measurements .. 1003. Create new report items .. 1014. Create a new formatted 1015. Export 1046. Exit 104 Additional 1051. IMAlign More information and other tools .. 1052. IMEdit Other tools .. 1073. IMEdit IMCompress parameters .. 1114. IMInspect Macro script 1125. IMInspect Other tools .. 115 IntroductionPolyWorks V10 beginner s Guide7 IntroductionInnovMetric Software Inc. welcomes you to PolyWorks , the leading software in the world for re-verse-engineering and inspection applications using high-density point beginner s PolyWorks V10 beginner s Guide will walk you through a typical reverse-engineering process and a typical inspection process using PolyWorks V10.

7 You will learn basic notions and do exer-cises that result in a reverse-engineering and an inspection application. This Guide : Is goal oriented - we provide you with the procedures, parameter values, and data files and you do the work. Uses workflow charts and a step-by-step approach; the workflow charts can be used as a gen-eral summary of all the steps needed to accomplish a basic inspection or reverse-engineering project in PolyWorks . References other PolyWorks tools not seen in this Guide to round up your learning order to use this Guide and do the exercises, the PolyWorks software must be installed and the license keys obtained that activate the more will learn quickly, and want to know more about certain tools or parameters, or have questions about tools not demonstrated in this Guide .

8 You can continue your learning by referring to the Poly-Works reference guides, by accessing the tutorials and the case studies available on our web site, by contacting your technical support service, or by following a training tailored to your you will benefit from: Instructions for getting the data files required for the exercises on page 8. A global PolyWorks workflow presentation on page 10. IntroductionPolyWorks V10 beginner s Guide8 Getting the data filesThe goal of this beginner 's Guide is to learn through practical exercises, using prepared data files (scans, polygonal models, etc.). The data files are available on CD or online. The procedures that follow explain how to copy these files to your computer s local disk.

9 On the next page, you will find a brief description of the files - On the PolyWorks Installation CD-ROM Insert the PolyWorks V10 installation CD-ROM in your CD drive. Cancel the installation that is launched automatically. Open Windows Explorer or My Computer. Click on the CD drive. Copy the PolyWorks V10 beginner 's Guide Data directory to your computer s local disk. Right-click on the copied directory and choose Properties. A dialog box pops up. Uncheck the Read-only attribute and click OK. A dialog box pops up. Check Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files, and click - On the Technical Support Zone of our web site: Start your web browser. Browse for If the web site language is not English, click on the English link at the top of the web page.

10 Find the TECHNICAL SUPPORT ZONE title on the page (see figure to the right). Enter your login and password, and click Enter. If you don t have your own login, you can use the public one: Login: PolyWorks Password: accurate Click . In the Data Exchange section, under Public, click PolyWorks V10 beginner s Guide Data to download to your computer s local disk. Unzip the PolyWorks V10 beginner s Guide file. Select the directory PolyWorks V10 beginner 's Guide Data. Right-click and choose Properties. A dialog box pops up. If the Read-only attribute is set, unset it and click OK. A dialog box pops up. Check Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files and click the next page for the PolyWorks V10 beginner 's Guide Data directory structure and the names of the data files.