Using a Faro Arm USB with Catia V5R17 1

[a2t22]

Good day all,

I recently acquired a new-to-me Faro Arm platinum circa 2004. It connects via USB to my laptop.

I want to use this to reverse engineer parts by taking touches on the part and importing the corresponding points to CAD.

Im using Catia V5R17. I was on the phone with Faro for quite a while and they had me install a trial version of Cam 2 Measure. This software however is only intended to inspect parts already in production. It cannot seem to just export points from the part to use to actually create the CAD model in the 1st place.

The rep from Faro said there is a software called Point2Cad which can do this but that seems only to be for SolidWorks, which wont work with Catia.

So, what I need is a basic software package that integrates with Faro Arm USB and will allow me to take manual touches on a part and import those points into Catia V5R17. To the best of my knowledge, Catia V5R17 will not recognize Faro arm USB whatsover, so a 3rd party software is now needed.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[ferdo]

Hi

You will need a software which will be able to export cloud of points (like stl, asc, igs).

Check also here an answer for what you have to do in CATIA.

Regards
Fernando

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[a2t22]

Yes that is what Im asking : what software can I use to work with Faro Arm USB that could output a igs point cloud file ?

Cam 2 Measure does not output a point cloud, its only used for comparing touches to the nominal CAD model and preparing a report. For my work, we have no CAD model yet, we are using Faro to gather the point data to create said CAD model.

Im versed in Catia, and have the DSE workbench, so fully capable of taking in point clouds and working with them. Im stuck actually getting the point cloud to begin with.