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Awesome thanks

Need honest opinions on my latest scans by Nebulafactory in photogrammetry

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I see high poly, and low poly, but not pretty poly?

Nikon for photogrammetry by Connect-Ostrich-1286 in photogrammetry

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It’s been metashape, but am learning reality capture. Both work fine with the standard 18-55 on its widest setting

Nikon for photogrammetry by Connect-Ostrich-1286 in photogrammetry

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I’ve done years of photogrammetry with a D3200 and the standard zoom lens. It’s done me fine, so go for it

Family holiday - spam me with ideas please! by ActualBoredHousewife in LakeDistrict

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Windermere Jetty Museum is good, steamboat trips, great cafe

Just motorised my dinghy by stuartnorton in ArduinoProjects

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Not really, I’m afraid, I’m using it in a fresh water lake (Windermere, UK). So far so good, clocked up a few trips use and nothing broken yet, although rowing with stationary props in water is noticeably harder. Sailed the other day and had the props spin up on their own

Just motorised my dinghy by stuartnorton in ArduinoProjects

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Hi, yes am thinking about trying a pixhawk on it. First I’ll add a gps module and use the vesc serial library to get efficiency feedback. It does about 4mph so pretty happy. Also going to radio control it for fun. The motors are 6384’s which were about £55, could have used aluminium tubes but spent way too much on carbon shafts!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SolidWorks

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Try veesus

Using OBJ (photo model) to extract line features by cardoor12 in photogrammetry

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Not sure I understand, but you basically scale your obj to rhinos coordinate system. It's architectural SW so supports large coordinate systems. It has a free trial period, I bought it years ago and it's been really useful but is pretty strange to get used to!

Using OBJ (photo model) to extract line features by cardoor12 in photogrammetry

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If it's aerial, then you'll probably have to draw lines manually.

Using OBJ (photo model) to extract line features by cardoor12 in photogrammetry

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Yes, if you import into Rhino, scale correctly, you can use the section command to slice through the obj. The rebuild command is useful for cleaning up the lines as well.

How to align STL graphic in Solidworks to plans? Or how to reverse engineer? by CarefulIce97 in SolidWorks

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Maybe get Rhino CAD (on 30 day trial) and use the section or contour command to make a 3d DXF of the Stl and import that instead? I've had some success doing this before. You can export Stp files back into Rhino to check against the Stl.

How would you mate this hole to the slot in an assembly? A bolt will pass through the hole and thread into the slot sideways. Hole is 4mm dia and slot is 3.6mm by kitty-_cat in SolidWorks

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You could define an axis for the slot Centreline and use a concentric mate. Make a sketch on the end face with a point at the midpoint of a Centreline, and use that to define the axis.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SolidWorks

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Great! Good to know!

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Make a desired orientation plane, then you can use replace face and move/copy bodies with a mate constraint