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From: rbnye@cup.portal.com (Robert Bruce Nye)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: 3D models for part profiles
Message-ID: <42698@cup.portal.com>
Date: 26 May 91 20:17:03 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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We are getting constant requests for an ability to take CAD files
(specifically CATIA/CADAM) as input to our equipment.  What our equipment must
do is interpret an action point on profiles in order to scan between them. I
have glanced at these requests and I must question the usefulness of them. Our
equipment (Ultrasonic inspection systems) needs to fly over a part with
coaxial transducers.  This is not really a tool path geometry.  The incidence
of the sound beam must be normal to the surface under test.

The questions I have are:

o Is there a package which we could use to decimate a drawing (e.g. aileron)
  into two profiles (start and end point)?

o Is there an existing program which we could use to develop fly-by's at some
  distance over the part? (It needs to be incorporatable(?) into our scan
  software).

Thanks

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