A Review of 3D Design Parameterization Using Reverse Engineering

Abstract — Reverse engineering plays an important role is surface re-modeling. It is driving research in the 21 st century and encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration. The paper explores a reverse engineering approach for product form design. It presents a brief review of technical advancement in 3D shape engineering and design parameterization in reverse engineering, in which the discrete point clouds are converted into feature-based parametric solid models with the help of devices called 3D scanners and then exported to various 3D scanning software. The entire process consists in the acquisition, the point cloud alignment, the triangle model definition, the NURBS creation, the production of STL file, and finally the generation of a scaled replica of the prototype. It will also review the case study of design of a sports car model using 3D reverse engineering software and evaluation of these software. The paper will conclude with several stateof-the-art case studies from fields of computer arts, product development and medical with the extensive applications of the technique taken into consideration