Reverse Engineering

Yell4CAD can provide simple reverse engineering or organize a third party to carry out a complex 3D scanning service.

Reverse engineering is an everyday process used in virtually every industry. It is the ability to take existing or modified products/forms and replicate them. Many products/forms exist that have no formal documentation or data associated with them. All too often products are designed and drafted and then the tooling is modified without the drawings or CAD model being updated.  Several years down the line tooling wears, employees move on, and no data exists showing the product's changes. To enable replication of these items, accurate dimensional data needs to be obtained. A simple process of taking measurements is engaged or, in more complex situations, the function of a 3D digitizing system can be utilised. In my experience this technology is now an invaluable part of the design/production process.

3D digitisers and scanners collect accurate measurements with the subsequent data then being transferred into a CAD system. Finally a 3D digital replica model is produced.
3D scanners capture data from many products/forms e.g. sculptures, organic shapes, buildings, tooling, aeroplanes, cars, models, people, fossils etc.

An example of reverse engineering an existing product would be the styling of a body kit on a car with clay, scanning the clay forms and then importing the scan data into a CAD system and producing a mould for manufacture.

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