I use point clouds generated by our touch point (not scanning) CMM to create part geometry.  The point clouds are brought in using Digitized Shape Editor, but I then must create a physical point for each dot on the cloud to be able to use it for creating geometry.

Is there some automated method of created a point for each dot in the cloud, or do I need to sit there and click on every single dot to manually create points?  Its very tedious when Ive got 1500 points...Thanks.

Paul

>>PolyWorks/Inspector™ is a powerful software solution that uses high-density point clouds and contact-probe datasets to control the quality of parts and tools at every phase of your manufacturing process. Today, major automotive and aeronautic OEMs and tier-one suppliers worldwide use PolyWorks/Inspector™ as their standard point cloud inspection software for prototype, first-article, manufactured, and assembled parts inspection

Not really what I was asking for.  Im well aware there are plenty of laser scanning devices out there that will provide me with a dense enough scan to build geometry off of (using QSR).

But we only use a touch point CMM.  Which provides me with basic information, like a cross section of points with which I can then draw a sketch off of.  See attached file V5R17.

So I have a couple hundred points to work with (usually), and its a real pain to sit there and click on each point in the cloud to assign a Catia point to it. 

What Im asking is if there is some way to have Catia automatically assign a Catia point to each value  of the point cloud.

This method is quite robost (if I could figure out a way to automate the point creation somehow).  I can take multiple clouds and average the x,y,z data across multiple parts using Excel, then dump all the data back into Catia and create a nominal model based on the measurements of 5 sample parts.  Then I can graphically show the tolerance range of the measured samples at any given measured point.  This is very handy for reverse engineering OEM parts.  Just need to figure out how I can create points in Catia for each value in point cloud. 

Create the text file as Mike suggested, read the file into Excel and clean it up so your X, Y, and Z coordinates are in the A, B, and C columns. Go to Catia Help and search for ElementsFromExcel. That's where the Excel file is located to create the points in Catia.