Re: Reverse Engineering
Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 01:40
Geomagic plugin for solidworks is amazing! So is scan to solid works addin.
my Low-Cost process chain consists of:
-David/HP Scan for scanning & fusion
-Autodesk ReMake & Meshmixer for repair and cleaning the mesh
-Blender for remodeling details of the mesh if necessary
-Meshlab for final analysis & checking the mesh for watertightness
-Geomagic Desing (ex Alibre, the cheap one without the "X"
for converting a watertight mesh into a solid that can be modified and again exported as STL (or e.g. STEP or IGES if you need a BREP for the following process)-Simplify3D for printing the STL on a 3D printer
Reverse Engineering comes in may flavours. The above mentioned process I used to simply scan, modify (slightly) and print parts. If you e.g. want to recover the design intent (parametric) from a scanned part, you sure have to spend more in terms of time and money.