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Basic Course

- Align -

March, 2007

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1. Overview 1.1 What does this exercise cover? Exercise 1 This exercise shows alignment using Ref.Plane that is extracted from mesh regions.

Exercise 2 You can select Ref.Geometries for alignment but you also can directly select necessary regions for alignment as discussed in this exercise.

Exercise 3 If you have CAD data and want to align scan data to CAD data, this exercise shows how to align them.

2. Process 2.1 Exercise1 1 Import File

You can import mesh data using Insert > Import. Select the Align1.stl file.

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2 Hide Ref.Plane Hide Front, Top and Right plane from the Model Tree.

3 Region Group Mode To enter Region Group Mode, click the (Region Group) on the toolbar.

4 Auto Segment Click the (Auto Segment) button on the toolbar. Set the slider of Mesh Shape to Prismatic and click the OK button.

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5 Edit Region Change the selection mode to paint brush and paint the model like the imagebelow;

Click the (Split) button on the toolbar. The gray region is divided into two regions.

6 Exit Region Group Mode

Click the button to exit region group mode.

7 Ref.Plane Click the (Ref.Plane) on the toolbar. Select (Filter Regions) icon from the bottom toolbar to select region on the mesh data. Select the bottom region and method in the Add Ref.Plane dialog tree is changed to Extract.

Click the OK button.

8 Ref.Plane In the same way above, extract Plane 2 and Plane 3.

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9 Interactive Setup Click the (Interactive Setup) on the toolbar or Tools > Align > Interactive Setup. Click the (Next Stage) button.

10 Select Entities Change Filter Selection to (Filter Ref.Geometries). Click the Plane and select Plane1. Click the Vector and select Plane3. Click the Vector and select Plane2. Click the OK button.

Final Result The aligned mesh data will be like the image below;

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2.2 Exercise2 1 Import File

You can import mesh data using Insert > Import. Select the Align2.stl file.

2 Auto Segment To enter Region Group Mode, click the (Region Group) on the toolbar. Click the

(Auto Segment) button on the toolbar. Set the slider of Mesh Shape to Prismatic and click the OK button.

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3 Edit Region Change Selection Filter to (Filter Regions) and select the top region. Click the

(Shrink) button 5 times to remove unnecessary boundary area. Exit Region Group mode.

4 Interactive Setup Click the (Interactive Setup) on the toolbar or Tools > Align > Interactive Setup. Click the (Next Stage) button.

5 Select Entities Click the Plane and select the top planner region. Click the Vector and select the cylindrical region. Change Target to Origin. Click the OK button.

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6 Final Result The mesh data is aligned to the origin coordinate.

2.3 Exercise3 1 Import File

You can import mesh data using Insert > Import. Select the Align1.stl and Align1.igs file.

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2 Quick Alignment Select (Quick Fit) button on the toolbar or Tools > Align > Quick Fit. Click the Target Body and select Imported Body1. Click the OK button.

3 Best Fit Alignment After Quick Fit, automatically Best Fit dialog tree appears. Click the OK button. Scan data is aligned to CAD data.

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