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Reverse Engineering sate a | Rapid Response Manufacturing er Prof Andrew Nee Reverse engineering - ~oSracrbetaeetcenooe Reasons for reverse engineering 1 Old products ~ No CAD exists, need new toolings Modified products ~ Unrecorded changes Design changes Overseas products — no documentation Reverse engineering is accomplished in three steps: part 19, features extraction, and CAD mod 1g. CT > Cenpehs Fenogrephy (oT)... MRT- Magrodic yeronamee tomo graphy e Procedures of reverse engineering oe Contact (CNN Part digitizing|(—> |+No-contact ight, laser, MRI, CT) Segneniation of Features /(— | digitized data, capture extraction ‘surface features as edges iting various surfaces [CAD modelling] (—>| he segmented data points @ scanned with OKEN Scanner Feature extraction To model the part surface in CAD, surface features from the cloud of points acquired by digitization have to be identified. These features include boundaries and surface segments. ~secaetene | n'a form that represents discrete points in space. Data interpretation software must be ised to connect the points into a representation of the surface which the ints define. CAD modelling Various types of surfaces are used to model the segmented data in CAD. Polynomial functions are used to model standard engineering surfaces such as cylindrical, conical, etc. Free-formed surfaces are modelled using parametric surfaces such as B-splines and Bezier surfaces. Point range sensor. It is a narrow beam of laser scanned at 50 to 200 points per second, with a resolution of 0.1 mm. CyberOptics is the largest manufacturer. Line range sensing. The sensor emits a beam of ight which is fanned out in one direction. It is equivalent to a large number of point range sensors working in tandem. The resulting increased speed comes at the cost of some accuracy. @ scanned with OKEN Scanner The point range s. “cult to scan complex exterior surfaces —* having deep pockets. Scan data contain = havi many,voids or gaps in the surfaces. Unable to scan the internal core geometry | without manifold destruction. Difficult to accurately align the exterior scan data to the internal core data. The line range sensor @ scanned with OKEN Scanner x Case study + eeasceecan Truck exhaust manifolds ~ Objectives: 1 Re-design exh laust manifold manufacturer's validation an iepiraments and to provide the supplier eee data for manufacturing, Id manifold casting available, | {7 Case Study (cont) ~ or tamttaeeenenscuns Issues 13D CAD data did not exist, ' Manifola castings were designed using 2D CAD manufactured using traditional pattern- making techniques. 7 , Such as FEA, could not be ously only marginall validation testing, | es ne | Case study (con't) Procedures taker 1 Old manifold casting scanned using X-Ray. 1 Point cloud data created. 1 Create .STL file directly from point data 1 Convert .STL file into FEA mesh. 1 Perform FEA validation analysis. 1 Modify design by strengthening weak parts. 1 Create full-surface CAD model for CNC machining of pattern tooling for metal casting. =e Lessons learned et sn It Laser scan/contact scanning using touch probe CMM not feasible for cored parts. IL STL file size from scan may be too large for most CAD systems to handle. Typical exhaust manifold file size is 140 Mb. Request scan source to send reduced resolution file. 1 CAD data translation from surfaced model to other CAD software can be difficult. 1 Ensure that part to be scanned represents your deign intent prior to scanning. = | eee eee @ scanned with OKEN Scanner Lecture note on Reverse Engineering: Reverse engineering is a technology that allows a 3D CAD model to be reconstructed from a physical object, based on point data acquired from the object surface. Reverse engineering is very useful when « the design model of a product is created by an artist + a product encounters frequent design changes + the engineering drawing of a product is not available Why Reverse Engineering ? «Old products-No CAD data exists, need new tooling; «Modified products-Unrecorded charges; *Design Changes; Overseas products-no documentation Procedure of Reverse Engineering 1) Par digitizing Devices: Contact type- CMM Dees ge Light Laser, Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI), Computer Tomography (CT)- 2) Feature Extraction Mothod: Segmentation of digitized data, capture surface features as edges 3) CAD Mod ‘Methods: Fiting various surfaces to the segmented datapoints Laser Scanning .

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