Re-importing an Exported Point Cloud into PC-DMIS for a New Report – Is It Possible?

Hi all,

I’m in a bit of a unique situation and would love to hear your thoughts/experiences.

I have an old file where I measured a part and generated a report in PC-DMIS. Recently, that part has been modified and welded, so it can’t be re-measured at this time. While working with PC-DMIS, I discovered some coding errors in another program we use. However, I ran the same test to validate that the exported point cloud wasn’t affected by these coding errors, so both our engineers and the lab have confirmed that the data of the older file itself. I have an older post on this reddit were everyone here helped me discover this issue.

That said, the initial report produced with this data might not be giving us the right answers. An NCR was issued regarding this issue, and to clear it, the decision was made to create a new report. In another post, I mentioned that I was planning to move data from one software package to another. But today, I noticed that one of our positional GD&T callouts – which I know is free from coding errors – was giving a different result than expected, some one gave me some tips on some things to look at.

This got me thinking: Is it possible to export the measured data (as a point cloud) that I know is accurate and then re-import it into a new PC-DMIS file? I’d like to rebuild the geometry and generate a new report based on that imported data rather than re-measuring the part.

Has anyone done something similar or can offer some guidance on the best workflow for this? Any advice on export formats, import procedures, or potential pitfalls would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your help.