CATIA Reverse Engineering - REV

Import and export clouds of points in various standard formats

User can import almost all native measuring machine makers. Data can be of different types - meshes, grids, scans and clouds of points. Imported data can be of different formats: standard formats (IGES, free ASCII, STL …) or formats from native measuring machine makers - GOM, HYSCAN, KREON, STEINBICHLER... The user can preview, scale, trim or change measuring units of the imported data.

Robust alignment and deviation checking for control processes

CATIA Reverse Engineering provides several robust strategies for the alignment of digitized data between them or in relation to CAD models. It also provides extensive and associative diagnosis commands such as:

• Deviation checking between digitized data, surfaces or curves

• Annotations and reporting on deviation checking

• Connect checker between surfaces allows to visualize eventual deviations during the joining of several surfaces in passage, tangency and curvature

Thanks to these alignment capabilities and diagnosis commands, CATIA Reverse Engineering covers control processes such as:

• Control alignment between digitized data

• Control of the deviation between a rebuilt CAD model and the master digitized model

• Control of an object as manufactured and the CAD mock-up as designed

Smart & advanced tools to manipulate clouds of points and meshes

Thanks to several 2D and 3D computation methods, the user can create watertight meshes that could be:

• Used in CATIA V6 DMU product, Rendering, …

• Directly manufactured in CATIA V6 Manufacturing product

• Exported in STL format for rapid prototyping machines

CATIA Reverse Engineering provides also a set of smart and advanced edition tools to manage and improve clouds of points and meshes such as:

• Working on sub-areas

• Remove, cleaning, filtering, smoothing, holes filling and shape improvement

• Mesh segmentation in pertinent surface domains

Wireframe creation

CATIA Reverse Engineering provides tools to create wireframe (scans/polylines or curves) and curves network:

• Planar sections

• Interactive creation of free curves or curves on support

• Curves creation by smoothing scans/polylines

• Curves projection

• Curves network management

• Automatic characteristic lines detection

Surfaces creation

CATIA Reverse Engineering allows easy surfaces creation (mechanical shapes or free form shapes) from digitized data. Several approaches to recover surfaces depending of the shape's type are available:

• For free form shapes by fitting on a domain delimited by N-sides 3D curves networks and constraints on boundaries

• For mechanical shapes by identifying and preserving editable features (plane, cylinder, sphere, cone)

• Recovering virtual sharp edges by extending and trimming primary surfaces

• For sweeping surfaces using a loft command

• Automatic surface creation from a mesh according to a given accuracy

Polygon modeler for virtual clay modeling

CATIA Reverse Engineering provides a set of intuitive polygonal modeling and sculpting tools that work like clay modeling. It is particularly well suited to shape designs when surfacing becomes complex.

Rapid prototyping

CATIA Reverse Engineering covers also rapid prototyping process through surfaces and solid tessellation capabilities to get watertight meshes.

Benefit from full integration within the CATIA design environment

CATIA Reverse Engineering has the advantage of being completely integrated within a CAD Design environment. Generated meshes or reconstructed surfaces can be directly reused for machining, or in the context of a DMU assembly.

Learn and use the reverse engineering environment with ease

CATIA Reverse Engineering offers a truly intuitive, easy-to-use interface, which makes it possible for anyone to rapidly perform reverse engineering tasks without special training, even for non-specialists.

Experience extended compatibility with standard data formats

CATIA Reverse Engineering enables the user to import almost all native measuring machines’ digitized data (GOM, HYSCAN, KREON, STEINBICHLER, etc.). Data can be of different types, such as meshes, grids, scans and clouds of points, and of different formats, such as standard formats (IGES, free ASCII and STL).

Use multiple strategies for surface reconstruction

CATIA Reverse Engineering makes it possible for users to reconstruct surfaces automatically or by applying one of the multiple available manual methods of surface generation from mesh, according to their specific needs.

Manage large volumes of data

CATIA Reverse Engineering helps manage large volumes of data, which makes it possible to digitize any product whatever its size.

Reduce project costs and streamline design iterations

CATIA Reverse Engineering is completely integrated within a CAD Design environment. This is a major advantage that distinguishes itself from the competition, because it streamlines design iterations, leading to a global reduction of project costs. There is no need to bother with data exchanges since everything is available in one single working environment.