COPious Plug-in. Software that provides additional power and functionality in SURFCAM

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Features

• Smoothing Algorithms
  

  A simple yet powerful smoothing algorithm automatically “sandpapers” the rough spots off the data prior to deploying SURFCAM’s powerful NURB surface smoothing algorithms. The user interface consists of an XY grid size, a slider bar for “as is” vs. “moderate” vs. “extensive” smoothing. Once this task is completed the user is presented with options for how many points per segment are to be considered for each blended surface point as the NURB surface is created.

• Automatic Probe Radius Compensation
  

  COPious can handle data from a Renishaw probe. It automatically offsets all data by the probe radius value prior to surface generation, resulting in wrinkle-free true surface data based upon either probe tip and radius or probe center and radius.

• Automatic Blending Over Cutouts
  

  A typical laser scanner captures all details within a “depth of field”, omitting points that are outside of user-specified settings, leaving “holes” in the point cloud data that normally must be manually fitted using tedious construction techniques. COPious automatically handles this by interpolating intermediate points at each grid location, then the adjacent surface shape influences these grid points to make the “holes” simply “disappear. This is often the most difficult task when manually working with point cloud data.

• Automatic Healing of Surface Models
  

  Many solid modeler IGES translators deliberately overlap adjacent surfaces, trimming them back along a common edge. Standard CAD or CAM-based surface algorithms have no provision for dealing with this circumstance. Also, since what should be a smooth surface is expressed with individual surface patches, the UV flow of these surfaces do not necessarily transition smoothly from surface to surface. Since COPious can easily handle overlapping point data, raw CAD data files generated by solid modelers can easily be converted into a single “baby smooth” surface with little/no user intervention.

COPious Inputs

• ASCII Point Cloud Files
  

  In FilesOpen mode, COPious contains a high performance external reader for importing thousands of points per second for surface processing. COPious buffers all point data into a temporary file for processing and doesn’t multiply to amount of data by adding this information to your SURFCAM model unless requested.

• Any SURFCAM Input Methods
  

  When COPious is activated from the SURFCAM AddIns menu, any valid POINT or PolyLine data that is unmasked and selectable will be considered for the surface to be created. PolyLines are automatically subdivided into POINT entities at each grid location.

System Software Requirements

COPious uses SURFCAM's Application Programming Interface (API) and the surface modeling features within SURFCAM Design PLUS and higher packages, which are a pre-requisite. Simply stated, COPious requires no added software other than SURFCAM.

Hardware Requirements

COPious runs on any system that will run SURFCAM.

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