Reverse Engineering Proliferates: New Applications Emerge as Technology Improves

Reverse engineering is becoming a multifaceted and complex topic. Potential applications are growing, including creating models for parts built before CAD existed, matching human limbs for orthotics and prosthetics, updating CAD models to as-built after a production process, repair processes, moldmaking—and the list is getting longer. What is driving this are new metrology sensors and more capable software, enabled by ever more powerful and cheaper computing. With the technology moving fast, there may be an application that’s right for you.