A Design Methodology for Reverse Engineering Integrated with Anatomical CAD

Abstract

In the conventional Reverse Engineering (RE), the first step is modeling industrial components from point cloud to parametric CAD model, and then the necessary design will be operated in a parametric CAD environment. Therefore the reverse engineering process is very time-consuming and error-prone. The Anatomical CAD means allowing the common Computer Aided Design operations on 3D anatomical data. 3-matic is a software package which equipped with an Anatomical Reverse Engineering module, with this module we can do the design operations on anatomical data. In this paper, we propose a new design methodology integrated with Anatomical CAD, which we can eliminate the first step of reverse engineering of the scanned data to a CAD format, save the time and work more accurately.