Leon Butterill

Im sorry i wish i could give you details and pictures but i can't, it's a project I'm working on in work so can't give too much away as its R&D stuff and you have to sign not disclosure agreements. but a basic outline is.. its a laser profiler scanner which is retro fitted to a cnc router machine (in place of the router attachment), and you use the cnc software to move across whatever you are scanning, and a encoder is used to monitor the location to "scale" the image correctly this is captured in a separate software for control of the laser the use case is for scanning materials to look look at surface undulations to a very high accuracy. the reason iv used the above net type material is as its very easy to visualise for stitching multiple passes into one image or csv file to have a large complete scan without having to have a ridiculously big scanner with a really wide laser beam. Thankyou for all your help by the way it has helped a lot. and I'm glad your interested just sorry i can't really dive into too much detail.

that looks good thanks, its just a small pice of net, the scan is 1 pass, im looking at stitching a few passe s together to form 1 full image, the only way to do this is to export the data as the csv file, and working on stitching the images that way. i was just looking for a way to open it aain hopefully so it looks somthing like the computer image attached.

Its a height map like Shadow_ray has suggested each cell location representing a coordinate, with the number in the cell representing the height value (Z value). I'm aware that a csv isn't a 3d format, its just basically storing numbers and coordinates. I just need a way to open this type of height map image (using an existing program would be ideal if you know of any). failing that I will have to build a program to analyse the data and spit out an image. Thanks for the Help

I've been struggling to find a way to do this for a while, i have a laser profiler (scanner) that I have retro fitted to a CNC router to scan surfaces to look at the undulations, I have to export these out of the proprietary software to a .csv file in order to stich multiple together (still working on this but am close) but i have then no way of viewing these images again as the software does not then allow you to import the .csv file back into it and will only open a .lhi file. I don't need it back into that software as i can use fusion 360 to open it, but i need to make it into a file format that will understand. fusion 360 allows a lot of 3d file types, and does have an option to import .csv files but it doesn't seem to work with the way the original software wrights the .csv files I have attched the .csv file for reference any ideas would be greatly appreciated, Thanks csv_file.zip

I'm currently using a Microsoft wireless mouse which is awful and uncomfortable to use and the built in keyboard on my laptop, I am going to be building a custom pc soon and this would be a great addition.

I don't have a graphics card yet going to be building my first gaming pc soon and this would be a great addition and help.