SOLIDWORKS In depth - Reverse Engineering Products

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[@jonathanbrazeau970]

helpful. Pro level SW modeler here, 10+ years. Now I think 3D scanners and their software look cool, and I think I'd like to get my hands on one eventually.... but I've been hand measuring to reverse engineer parts for the past 10 years and I'm still seeing it as one of the most accurate ways to make parts, especially when they get more complex. From what it looks like, the various scanning software's don't necessarily make it that much faster, you still need to transfer the features and build the feature tree to get a proper model, so why not just do it from the get go with a digital caliper and tape measure :)...... also, often, the scanned data is crap quality...

[@new1ru]

A very nice educational video, thank you!

[@fallen303]

do you have a tutorial or video of reverse engineering the transfer case? mainly after something for extracting the bolt locations, holes, mounts etc.

[@dvdhidro]

thanks very nice video... where are the analysis desviation or comparation analysis???

[@danielchen8671]

Amazing skill, thank you

[@prabuelango9504]

Am getting mesh typology error how you get in starting of video (gear box design) please help me to solve the issue.

[@tahaelhelify3433]

I'm trying to make a lofted boss/base for two 3d sketches
The two 3d sketches are obtained from projecting two circles on the cones
It appears an error for me

[@vytautasnar6338]

I imported scanned mesh file (STL), but ScanTo3D options are not active (except for curve wizard). Anyone know why? I have SW Premium 17. Thanks

[@danielcervantesperez1911]

have you downloaded power surfacing and installed on solidworks?

[@adamrose4982]

Scan to 3D is a SW professional add-in and needs to be turned on. See Tools>add-ins

[@HARLYZZCCC]

WEBINARLICHUZZ!!

[@magafago]

Scan to 3D has never been upgraded since 2005, this is ridiculous, the same graphic green bug still existing... shame SW... we need something like power surface...

[@markyboy1704]

From my experience Solidworks can only handle up to 650,000 points without crashing/hanging so if your scanning a complex shape, decimating the point cloud to that sort of level would result in poor scanned data for reverse engineering accurate information