Try Meshlab, an open-source software, it can convert point model into mesh model.

Thank you for the suggestion.

I had a try at Meshlab. It is an excellent piece of code; but seems to have some stability problems. Especially when the choice of the Poisson filter for calculating normal faces is not right (the default filter settings fails quite often causing frustration).

How about the other filters, e.g., Marching cubes, pivoting ball, delaunay triangulation... do they fail as well?

Dear MurliDharan, you can do it easily in AutoCAD and more easily in Pro-E or Creo Parametric.

In Auto CAD,

Either you must value of coordinates of Point Cloud or you have point clouds in DXF format.

Then you use the spline tool to connect those points.

After making close geometry you can use surface command to make surface from it.

you can thicken your surface or edit you surface from surftab1 and surftab2 commands.

In Pro-E

You just IGES format of those point clouds you can use boundary blend option for doing so.

Same is the case with Creo Parametric.

In case of any problem email me at [email protected]

Regards

You could try Cocone from Tamal Dey's group.

http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~tamaldey/cocone.html

It requires a sufficiently dense sampling and assumes that the sampling is from a smooth surface.

I guess Rhino would be a good option. It can import a huge number of file formats, including point clouds and the like. (you can download a free test version, which can save a limited number of times)

By using the patch tool you can fit NURBS surfaces on through the points. You will have to put effort in it yourself to make the right selection of points. Usually it is difficult to fit a complete point cloud with one surface.

Otherwise you would go in the direction of more expensive and dedicated softwares like Rapidform and Geomagic. Those are specially developed for handling point clouds from 3d scanners.

google for reverse engineering software.

Solid Works have a module for point clouds editing and converting. If you work on complex project, the best choise is a dedicated software (Rapidform, Geomagic, ...).