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======Reverse Engineering====== | ======Reverse Engineering====== | ||
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+ | Reverse Engineering is the process of transfroming a mesh or point cloud, usually coming from the scan of a physical object, into a type of 3D geometry that can be editable to manufacturing standards. A mesh is a succession of flat polygons that define a shape in 3D space. However, due to its nature, meshes are hard to manipulate in a precise way. This precision is often required to manufacture the model back into a physical object. For instance, you cannot define precisely a radius or curvature on a mesh. Therefore by reverse engineering it back into a geometry that can be transformed with matehmatical precision, such as NURBS, the object can then be manipulated and edited to taste and sent back to any kind of prototyping machine. | ||
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+ | Rhino is not a Reverse Engineeting program, since there are many aspects and tools needed to do reverse engineering. However, depending on your requirements, | ||
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+ | Rhino 8 improves this process a step further than Rhino 7 by adding the ShrinkWrap command. | ||
+ | Here are some resources on ShrinkWrap: | ||
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+ | The set of tools in Rhino 8 that can help convert a scan into an editable part are: | ||
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This is a old, but still valid explanation of a [[https:// | This is a old, but still valid explanation of a [[https:// | ||
Rhino 7 improves this process of Reverse Engineering a mesh. | Rhino 7 improves this process of Reverse Engineering a mesh. | ||
- | Here are video on using Rhino 7 to reverse engineer a mesh | + | Here are videos |
The process and commands are included in the video. | The process and commands are included in the video. | ||
* https:// | * https:// |