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mjenkins10-Marble
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May 11, 2012 3:15 PM UTC
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Autodesk 123D Catch

I just wanted to share this because I thought it was amazing! We took 30 pictures of a platewith an iPad running the appand a model was automatically created.


By opening the scene in the desktop version, I exported as an .OBJ file which could then be opened in ProE!


http://www.123dapp.com/catch


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    ptc-7261111-Visitor
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    May 11, 2012 3:46 PM UTC

    Interesting idea, but where is the Android app? I would like to test this on my Android phone.


    Looks like you would still need to use another software to fit a NURB surface to the mesh (i.e: PolyWorks, etc.) before importing into Pro-E. Otherwise, you are only viewing the mesh file in Pro-E.


    Chris



    In Reply to Michael Jenkins:



    I just wanted to share this because I thought it was amazing! We took 30 pictures of a platewith an iPad running the appand a model was automatically created.


    By opening the scene in the desktop version, I exported as an .OBJ file which could then be opened in ProE!


    http://www.123dapp.com/catch


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    mjenkins10-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    May 11, 2012 4:02 PM UTC

    I tried just using our lab digital camera and the desktop version but it was very difficult to connect all the points in the pictures by hand.


    There must be something magical about the iPad version because it just created the model by pushing a button.


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    ptc-19327451-Visitor
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    May 11, 2012 7:34 PM UTC
    After bringing in the mesh file into pro-E you would need to use
    something like Pro-scantools to turn this into surfaces, and they could
    be very 'crinkly' I would guess that pro-scantools would then have some
    ability to smooth the result.



    Christopher F. Gosnell



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    amedina1-Visitor
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    May 11, 2012 10:23 PM UTC
    I knew there was a catch 22.... They own the content for you and your
    neighbor and anyone else using this thing. They probably just wanna make a
    library of stuff and want free labor from all of us. Well there is an F key
    for that somewhere on this Keyboard I'm sure of it.....Anyway don't model
    anything you hold precious like a new design, your face, your dog. I would
    model something useless like a computer mouse or a keyboard. Maybe even
    something where it is illegal to shoot but it looks legal. That way
    eventually Autodesk would have to stop "cloud sourcing" their work and
    maybe even be sued. I would rather do what google is doing where my work is
    mine and no one gets a stray copy of it unless I am willing to share it
    with the world. Plus any processing is done on my computer. It does not
    take a super computer to do what they are doing. Rant off..

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    amedina1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    May 11, 2012 10:28 PM UTC
    Here this is a better option set. Its free and you own your content as in
    its in your computer only and not in their server.
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    mjenkins10-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    May 14, 2012 4:28 PM UTC

    Yeah, good catch.


    Seems like there is a lot of that digital communism going around now.


    That is why I quit using Dropbox (which has similar terms.)


    Someone also listed:


    http://www.photo-to-3d.com/


    as an alternative...


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