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Using a plug-in such as XTract3D to complement SOLIDWORKS will be less expensive ($2,999) than purchasing a standalone reverse engineering software (which can cost upwards of $20,000) to produce the same results. SOLIDWORKS is one of the world’s most popular CAD modeling package used by 3.2 million users. Many engineers and designers already have SOLIDWORKS The feature tree might not translate properly during importing to preserve the relationships. If you use a standalone reverse engineering package, you will have to export the file as STEP or IGES and import it back into SOLIDWORKS. Having a feature tree make the collaboration much easier because all the background information on the part is provided in the file and it makes it more intuitive to change the design if needed in the future. If you think of a CAD file as the blueprint of the part, the feature tree provides a deconstructed view of how the part was developed. What are the benefits to reverse engineering directly in SOLIDWORKS? It’s a relatively simple looking part, but if you don’t have access to 3D scan data it would be difficult to create a drawing from this as the part contains organic shapes. Here is the 3D mesh of the nozzle imported inside SOLIDWORKS.
The site is made by Ola and Markus in Sweden, with a lot of help from our friends and colleagues in Italy, Finland, USA, Colombia, Philippines, France and contributors from all over the world. The mesh will serve as the reference file for building the CAD model instead of designing it completely from scratch in SOLIDWORKS. AlternativeTo is a free service that helps you find better alternatives to the products you love and hate. This happens before the scan data is imported into SOLIDWORKS. The cleanup process The task of deleting unwanted scan data, hole filling, aligning, and merging of 3D scans normally takes place inside the 3D scanning software that comes with the 3D scanner. Start the reverse engineering process by importing the 3D mesh file (obj, ply, or stl) into SOLIDWORKS.