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What about Point Cloud Data use inside Inventor? IMHO, that’s the place it should be done first. Perhaps even Fusion before that. It annoys me when a “built from the ground up to be 3D” product is relegated to get the “hand-me-down” technology from a “3D enhanced” 2D product.
QubeIt,
AutoCAD is a platform technology product like an OS and not discipline/industry specific. This is where much of technologies for multiple industries is developed for a wide cross section of Autodesk customers. Point Clouds are used more in the AutoCAD based product base than the mechanical design at the present time. For example AEC industries like Civil Engineering and Process & Power use Point Clouds the most, and those industry products are based on AutoCAD. I am sure the Inventor team is looking at how they can best use Point Cloud technology in the Manufacturing industry products by researching how their customers would use it in their workflow. They will also research where it fits in priority of other technology and solutions being asked for by the manufacturing industry customers.
Thank you for you comment,
Shaan
Sorry Shaan, I don’t mean to be snippy. I have done point clouds in the recent past and it was quite an arduous process to produce 3D models from them. I wasn’t looking for an “automatic” feature recognition/creation, but rather just a decent workflow. I had to “post process” the point clouds gathered (i.e. register them, decimate, etc.) then bring it into AutoCAD. I even tried Rhino for a bit because I just didn’t like creating 3D models in AutoCAD coming from an Inventor workflow. I kept saying to myself, “Man, if I could just bring it straight into Inventor, I could have this model done already”.
On the bright side, I will admit that I am happy to see Autodesk looking into creating some type of native workflow for manipulating and working with point cloud data. I really do think that’s the future.
I know that making product development decisions is a tough job because you want to deliver Mars to the customers but through a natural evolution of technology and a finite amount of resources you have to stay focused on what you can deliver which is the Space Station. It’s still an impressive feat, just not everything you would “want” in a perfect world. As an Inventor fanboy I still want Mars, though. 🙂
Thanks Shaan.
-Brian Hall-