1998 / Solid Freeform Fabrication Proceedings
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Author Jon Christensen, Amit Bandyopadhyay, Washington State University
Source Solid Freeform Fabrication Proceedings, 1998, pp 351-358
Abstract Reverse engineering (RE) techniques allows the creation of 3-D CAD files from a solid model. The benefits of reverse engineering are not new to the industrial design and manufacturing arena though wide spread applications are yet to be seen. A novel approach is used to reverse engineer polymeric parts with its internal features in a low cost, non-destructive manner. Solids created from polymers with an index of refraction matching that of an immersion liquid are reverse engineered using a CCD camera. The images are then used to create digital solid models from a physical model. Design and development of this novel low cost tool for reverse engineering of polymeric solid models is described in this paper. (Auth abstract) [References: 5]
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