cleaning up a touch probe scan

[kyeakel]

I have a machine that I just use to build a point cloud of an item I'm trying to reproduce. The scan of a wooden object has the grain of the object on it's flat surface. This adds a lot of additional machining time, which is unnecessary. I've tried the smoothing tool which helps but does not remove all the texture. Is there a feature in Aspire 10 that would allow me to remove a few thousandths from the top of the model?
Thanks for any suggestions,
Kipp

[highpockets]

Picture might help.

Can you just draw a closed vector around the area to machine?

[TReischl]

Have you tried the smoothing tool?

I think you are talking about removing over all surface roughness, right?

There are two varieties to the smoothing abilities, the first is a general smoothing which will slightly round over sharp corners which is usually a good thing, sometimes not. Then there is the smoothing inside the sculpt tool which you control directly.

[highpockets]

The smoothing tool won't go far enough?

[ohiolyons]

Try making a flat shape say 0.001 high.

Merge it with the model. Slowly add base height till you raise it just high enough to "fill in the wood grain" but not too high so you dont change the overall height.

Hope this makes sense.

[ohiolyons]

Highpockets he probably needs to deposit, then smooth so he does not noticeably lower it while trying to hide the grain.

[highpockets]

John, good idea, but it's all guess work until we get a bit more from the OP.

[TReischl]

Try making a flat shape say 0.001 high.

Merge it with the model. Slowly add base height till you raise it just high enough to "fill in the wood grain" but not too high so you dont change the overall height.

Hope this makes sense.

That will work if the model is flat, otherwise, no so much.

If that were the case he could just cut the sculpted parts out and add box for the background.

[ohiolyons]

scan of a wooden object has the grain of the object on it's flat surface

We are all guessing, but the OP did say flat

[kyeakel]

Sorry for the lack of info. I've been out all day. I'm trying to reproduce some molding in my home. It's an 1885 Victorian. A previous owner has removed the molding from the back of the house, so I need to remake it from a copy of the front. This will be for the maid's quarters so it's not as elaborate as the rest of the house. Must be the file is too large as the upload attachment blanks out the whole message before it completes. I'll include the height map as it's smaller.
The area of trouble is the middle square, I only want to cut the leaves and the rosette. I will try the suggestion by ohiolyons about the flat shape.

[ssflyer]

Probes can be handy for things like this gargoyle:

But for what you are doing, I'd simply recreate it with a molding toolpath (then create a component from that, to add the rosette and flower carvings, like so:

It can be much more accurate, and no issues with the artifacts from the probe...

[ssflyer]

Of course, my rendering isn't exact - I just took your heightmap and used that to get an approximate profile for the molding toolpath, and didn't take any time on the rosette and flowers...