In a world of intricate parts and organic shapes, manufacturers are constantly seeking new ways to both shorten product time to market and meet increasingly demanding consumer design demands. In design-sensitive industries where physical models are still the rule - from fashion accessories to auto components - the first hurdle to using modern CAD tools for manufacturing is getting a precise digital representation of the product.
On the border between art and tooling, Cimatron provides reverse engineering solutions that exceed the expectations of both designers and manufacturers. By smoothing data import and geometrical segmentation, Cimatron helps bring mass-produced end products as close as possible to original designer intent - while operating within practical and cost-effective manufacturing and material constraints.

Creating Usable Geometry
Since scanner output cannot provide data in a format that can be directly used in a solid-modeling system, Cimatron reverse engineering solutions cover the full process of turning digitized models into geometry - ready for processing and manufacture.
Cimatron provides tools for the creation, manipulation and editing of point clouds, NURBS curves/surfaces and STL data - including:

IMPORT - easy import of captured physical model data from any digitizing source - robotic, mechanical or optical.

POINT CLOUD PROCESSING

• Filtering and removal of unwanted elements from the point cloud
• Segmentation
• Sectioning
• Divide by surface
• 2D polygon operations

GEOMETRY CREATION - Cimatron's powerful geometry creation tools allow interactive creation of hybrid geometry - merging the best of imported data with hands-on designer input, and featuring:

• SPLINES
• Fit to points
• Dynamic modification
• Dynamic Curvature verification
• Projection onto STL
• Shape splines
• Sketch on STL
• SURFACES
• Fit to points
• Fit to STL region
• Dynamic modification
• Verify curvature
• Tessellation – generate STL models

STL - Cimatron's powerful STL trimming tools allow creation of hybrid models - facilitating creation of the hybrid STL, solid, and surface molds required for dynamic, cost-sensitive and design-sensitive industries. By allowing ongoing tweaking and modification of STL models based on both digitized data and custom-created geometry, Cimatron reverse engineering solutions smooth the path to cost-effective manufacturing, and feature:

• Creation of STL from point data
• Trimming by plane and or multiple surfaces
• Creation of border splines
• STL/Surface intersection
• Parting line identification
• Smoothing
• Non uniform scaling
• Create from surfaces