Reverse engineering for rapid product development: a state of the art

This paper presents a state of the art of reverse engineering for rapid product development. This domain concerns both 3D measurement for comparison between the CAD reference model and the discrete data (point clouds, CT contours), and data acquisition for CAD modeling (surface and volume modeling from grids of set of points or contours). This paper presents the main aspects of reverse engineering domain, from the sensors used for data acquisition to software for data computation and to software for part modeling from point clouds.