Is IMAQ a good solution

[Trin]

Hello All,

I am working on a project that contains scanning an object with a laser, model the points cloud and manipulate the 3D object. Manipulation contains Zoom, Navigation, marking points, connecting points and finally making a desired surface through the marked points, all should be done by using a stylus .

Till now, i am using 3D picture control features but in this momenet i have lots of problem in making path on the surface of object , finding edges and so on .

I read about IMAQ a little bit, but i am not sure if it is a good choice to switch on or not, so i would like to hearing if any one has worked the same project with IMAQ, or even generally what you experts thing about using IMAQ computer vision.

I would appreciate any kind of suggestion, that will be surely a great help.

Cheers

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

Hi,

IMAQ Vision intendent for 2D image processing. So, if you need to process 2D slices from 3D image, then it should be good choice. But, for example,  if you need to detect Edges in 3D Volume, then IMAQ Vision will not help.

Andrey.

[Trin]

Thanks Andry, good to  know. So, it seems that i should stick with 3D picture control

btw, does anybody has an idea about edge finder for a 3D volume?

[Matt_W1]

I haven't tried this (so it may not be practical) but If your edges are visible in a projection (shadow) of the 3d solid. Then you could use 2d image functions against the projection and if you had the projected depth information for the projected image you could reverse the projection to get the edges in 3d.