Reverse engineering turns a physical part — or a pile of scan data — into a clean, editable CAD model you can actually manufacture from. Here is how we approach it.
1. Capture
We 3D-scan the part on a structured-light or laser scanner, taking enough passes to cover undercuts and mating faces. The output is a dense triangle mesh.
2. Clean and align
Raw scans have noise, holes and duplicate geometry. We clean the mesh, close gaps and align it to a sensible origin so downstream CAD is measured from real datums.
3. Rebuild, not autosurface
Where it matters we rebuild the part with real features — extrusions, holes, fillets — so the model is parametric and editable, rather than a frozen surface wrap.
4. Verify
We overlay the CAD against the scan and share a deviation report, so you can sign off the fit before anything is machined or printed.