Digitalization and reverse engineering
Digitalization and reverse engineering is used for dimensioning, first sampling, production of CAD data, geometry checks, polygon mesh generation, production of target-actual comparisons as well as quality checks and inspection.
Application areas:
- Production of datasets for milling positive and negative moulds
- Production of digital models for archiving or further processing
- Data generation for reproducing objects
- Scaling and duplication of objects
- Creation of new models
At VMT, for digitalization of small parts, a measuring arm with seven joints and an arm length of 1.4 m is used in combination with a line scanner. In this way it is possible to scan in measurement objects in order to record point clouds and to tactily contact individual points with the same system. Scanning is particularly suited for two-dimensional recording and for free-form surfaces, and the tactile version for recording standard geometries such as planes, circles, cylinders and similar.
Also read our case study on Digitalization of a glider. (german version)