This paper deals with the data processing in the form of a point cloud scanned using a handheld 3D laser scanner. The aim of the paper is to use this data to create a representative FEM model and compare two different approaches while one of them involves creating a CAD model and the other one not. The data processing is carried out in the freeware systems MeshLab and Meshmixer and FEM analysis in the software ANSYS Workbench.

The part of the results of this work has been supported by VEGA grant No. 1/0795/16 and KEGA grant No. 017ŽU-4/2017.