Christiaan Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 Ability to create a watertight mesh around open or closed meshes, NURBS geometry, subdivision and point clouds. 3 Quote Link to comment
0 VIRTUALENVIRONS Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 Interesting, but unclear exactly what you are proposing. Can you elaborate? Quote Link to comment
0 jmcewen Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 12 hours ago, Christiaan said: Ability to create a watertight mesh around open or closed meshes, NURBS geometry, subdivision and point clouds. With a button at creation to convert immediately to generic solid! Quote Link to comment
0 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Scott Lebsack Posted July 12 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 12 Similar to Drape Surface, but on the bottom too? https://app-help.vectorworks.net/2024/eng/VW2024_Guide/Shapes2/Creating a_drape_surface.htm?rhmapfs=true#CSH_802 1 Quote Link to comment
0 VIRTUALENVIRONS Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 This wish list is very complex. I have been using Extract Surface to generate the Hull and then shell. That seems to works well with continuous surfaces. Quote Link to comment
0 BartHays Posted July 13 Share Posted July 13 It sounds like you are looking for Screened Poisson Surface Reconstruction a la Meshlab: ( but built in VW) Quote Link to comment
0 VIRTUALENVIRONS Posted July 13 Share Posted July 13 On 7/11/2024 at 7:33 PM, Christiaan said: Ability to create a watertight mesh around open or closed meshes, NURBS geometry, subdivision and point clouds. Companies have been searching for the answer to this for ~35 years. Quote Link to comment
0 Jeff Prince Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 You might look at Rhino or Blender for inspiration on how it could be done... 4 Quote Link to comment
0 Christiaan Posted July 22 Author Share Posted July 22 On 7/16/2024 at 9:29 AM, Jeff Prince said: You might look at Rhino or Blender for inspiration on how it could be done... Yeah like that. 2 Quote Link to comment
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