SW 2005
I have been trying to get up to speed on surface modeling the last couple of days. I'm making good progress thanks to the suggestions this group has offered.
Let me restate the problem and see if anyone has any ideas: I am importing a 'point cloud' iges file. It is a 3d scan of a surface of an automobile. It comes in as more than 500 faces that make up the surface. There are holes in the surface and jagged edges. I can delete these ragged faces and fill them in later. When the surface comes in, it is not associated with any coordinate system. I can move it around using Insert, Surface, Move/Copy. What I would like to do is take some of these faces and associate them coincident to the standard planes on which I could then draw sketches to set fill boundaries. Since this is just a part file, I can not use mates to associate the faces with planes. Is there an equivalent way to do this 'mating' in a part file? I realize I can create new refernce planes to sketch on but I would like to use the standared planes if I can.