DP Meshing Recommendations

3D Meshing / Feature Extraction Recommendations

Here are a few (of many) excellent options for converting your DP scans into 3D meshes and/or semi-automatically extracting CAD features from the point clouds:

3D Meshing Recommendations:
Meshlab (PLY import) - Video

Feature Extraction Recommnedations:
InfiPoints (DP import) - Video
ClearEdge3D EdgeWise (DP import) - Video


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