Reverse Engineering Features

Convert CT scans into CAD models that you can use in CAD systems without the need for a CAD designer or reverse engineering specialist.

With the reverse engineering features, you can:

• Automatically convert CT scans into CAD models.
• Generate an autosurface, which is a pattern of 4-sided patches that follow the edges and main features of the model.
• Export a STEP file to your CAD systems.
• Use these CAD models to:
  • Generate CAD models for old parts where no CAD information (or only 2D drawings) is available.
  • Make manually generated design models available digitally.
  • Update models of parts or tools that look different than their master CAD models.
  • Enable CAM systems to mill on CAD models instead of meshes.

Complex areas of a part, such as an engine's water cooling channels, can be easily represented by ROIs. Convert these ROIs from complicated freeform geometries into CAD models.

With the reverse engineering features, you can:

• Reverse engineer ROIs to CAD.
• Extract defined areas such as cooling channels.
• Extract manually segmented areas of your object.
• Export ROIs as *.stp files.