Robot - Mesh to Solid

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A photogrammetric 3D scan processed with AGISOFT Photoscan led to a triangulated mesh that was cleaned using MeshLab and ZBrush. The 3D mesh was then converted into a NURBS surface in Rhino utilizing the TSplines plugin. Following this, Rhino's NURBS surface was transformed into a solid BREP model within Autodesk Inventor 2013. For the final rendered images, the completed solid model was exported as an STL mesh from Inventor and converted to .OBJ format using MeshLab. This .OBJ file was subsequently imported into DAZ Studio 4.5 where it was rendered in LUXRender through pret-a-3D Reality. The process benefited from the assistance of T-Spline user Knead, who also contributed two screenshots.