Point Cloud

#1

How to generate (using Rhino) a surface from a point cloud dataset?

The point cloud is a list of coordinates X, Y, Z, obtained from a 3D laser scan.

#2

They most simple way both in in accuracy and procedure is the the patch command - although it is quite limited…

         Else take alook at the rhino3d website in the ressources section. There are a

few Plugins which can do this one of them is called smurf and can do the
reconstruction into nurbs surfaces.

David Rutten has also coded a free Plugin which does mesh reconstruction take a look at his website at www.reconstructivism.net

Here somebody created NURBS surface by a roundabout route via mesh (pointcloud to mesh then mesh to nrubs)
http://www.rhino3.de/design/modeling/reengineering/PointCloud.shtml

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