Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering
>> 2007,
Volume 2,
Issue 1
doi:
10.1007/s11465-007-0012-z
Closed surface modeling with helical line measurement data
1.School of Machinery and Electronics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 201418, China; 2.School of Machinery and Dynamic, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, China;
Available online: 2007-03-05
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Abstract
Models for surface modeling of free-form surface and massive data points are becoming an important feature in commercial computer aided design/computer-aided manufacturing software. However, there are many problems to be solved in this area, especially for closed free-form surface modeling. This article presents an effective method for cloud data closed surface modeling from asynchronous profile modeling measurement. It includes three steps: first, the cloud data are preprocessed for smoothing; second, a helical line is segmented to form triangle meshes; and third, Bezier surface patches are created over a triangle mesh and trimmed to shape on an entire surface. In the end, an illustrative example of shoe last surface modeling is given to show the availability of this method.