Do you have prototypes, current products, or finished tooling, but no related drawings or CAD data? Are you dreading having to create the CAD model from scratch? Perhaps you design highly customizable products such as medical devices that require a perfect fit with the human body.
Pro/ENGINEER Reverse Engineering Extension (REX), you can easily create–or recreate the electronic 3D CAD model of your physical product, without spending an enormous amount of time, effort or money.

Key Benefits

• Reduce costs and shorten development time by automating the process of reverse engineering a physical prototype 
  
• Simplify the workflow, and minimize the learning curve, by using the same CAD program you use to design your products to also reverse engineer a product 
   
•  Reduce noise in point cloud data for more accurate product designs 
   
•  Maintain design integrity by accurately capturing the design intent of the original product 
   
•  Automate the manual process of transforming scan data into manufacturable surfaces 
   
•  Easily update old designs without their original digital data to meet new market requirements 
   
•  Analyze the differences between the completed model and the original point cloud data to verify accuracy
  
  Features & Specifications

Point Cloud Refinement

• Point cropping, Noise reduction, Automatic deletion of outlying points
• Point sampling (random, uniform and curvature sampling) 
• Fill holes in the scanned data

Dynamic Facet Modeling

• Removal of facets as singles, groups or user-defined cropping 
• Cleaning operations to redistribute the facets for a cleaner representation 
• Decimating and refining operations to reduce or increase the number of facets
  
  Flexible Curve Creation 
   
• Construct curves on a facet, a surface, from a surface boundary, and through points 
• Create a curve from the results of an analysis feature such as along the fringe of a colored analysis plot

Verification

• Analyze the deviation between individual surfaces and the facets
• Fit new point cloud data to an existing model to implement design changes 
• Analyze the deviation between the completed model and the original point cloud

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