21.3. Summary

Many types of digitized data exist, and if you have some help with the data, you may not need fancy tools to do great work. If you can get a few well–placed cross sections of the data and get the data properly oriented to a coordinate system, things should work well.

Without ScanTo3D or an equivalent from another vendor, working with digitized data is less precise, and involves more guesswork. Remember that the only times you can actually select points within the point cloud are when placing points (spline points, end points, sketch points) in a 3D sketch, or when creating a reference plane or axis — strangely, you cannot select a point cloud point when creating a reference point.