Automatic Surfacing and Mesh-to-NURBS Tools
Turn scanned and sculpted meshes into high-quality, G2-continuous NURBS surfaces with a highly automated workflow — organic shapes and analytic features alike.
Surface Reconstruction From Meshes
Manually fitting surfaces to a dense scan mesh is slow and error-prone. Power Surfacing automates the hardest steps: Quad Wrap retopology builds a clean quad layout that follows the mesh's curvature and flow lines, and the resulting Sub-D model converts to Brep NURBS surfaces with G2 edge continuity — a patented IntegrityWare process.
For organic shapes, the Shrink Wrap tool captures very fine surface detail without adding polygons. For mechanical regions, analytic shapes such as planes, cylinders, spheres, and cones are automatically identified and parameterized.
Automatic surfacing is the core of our scan-to-CAD workflow and mesh-to-CAD conversion, and it powers the 3D scan to SOLIDWORKS add-in workflow as well.
Capabilities
- Automatic Quad Wrap retopology that follows curvature flow
- Sub-D to Brep NURBS conversion with G2 edge continuity
- Automatic identification of planes, cylinders, spheres, and cones
- Shrink Wrap detail capture without polygon bloat
- Mesh repair, smoothing, and hole-filling before fitting
- Distance display to verify surface accuracy against the mesh
- Export to STEP, IGES, and SAT, or native SOLIDWORKS bodies
Products With Automatic Surfacing
Available standalone or as a SOLIDWORKS add-in.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is automatic surfacing?
Automatic surfacing converts a polygon mesh into smooth mathematical surfaces without manually laying out every patch. Power Surfacing uses automatic Quad Wrap retopology that follows curvature flow, then converts the result to NURBS surfaces.
How are NURBS surfaces created from scan data?
The scan mesh is retopologized into a clean quad structure, refined as a Sub-D model, and converted to Brep NURBS with G2 edge continuity — a patented IntegrityWare process.
Can surface accuracy be verified against the original mesh?
Yes. A distance display measures how closely the reconstructed surfaces approximate the original reference mesh.
Does automatic surfacing handle mechanical features?
Power Surfacing RE Studio automatically identifies and parameterizes analytic shapes — planes, cylinders, spheres, and cones — so prismatic regions become true analytic geometry rather than freeform patches.
See Automatic Surfacing on Your Own Data
Download a free trial and convert one of your meshes into clean NURBS surfaces.