Reverse Engineering of Parts with Optical Scanning and Additive Manufacturing

This paper presents reverse engineering of car volume button. The purpose of article is to introduce reverse engineering procedure, what we need to do this kind of procedure and how we can remanufacture car's volume button. The purpose of reverse engineering is to manufacture another object based on a physic and existing object for which 3D CAD is not available. The first we need digital version of object. Because our car's volume button has free formed surfaces we decided to use 3D scanning technology to obtain the point cloud of existing object. With the help of point cloud we can developed 3D CAD model which will be used for manufacturing of button pair. We used for manufacturing of pair of buttons machine for selective laser sintering Formiga P 100. In the paper are also described costs of making of one pair of buttons and whole workspace. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.