Reverse Engineering
When you have an Artec 3D scanner, SOLIDWORKS CAD software and a Stratasys 3D printer added to your operation, it opens up new possibilities. Let’s look a reverse engineering workflow to make perfect-fitting 3D-printed fixtures. In this post learn how we fixed a squeaky ceiling fan with…
If you need to work with Mesh files inside of SOLIDWORKS, you probably know how hard that is. These files have always been hard if not useless to work with! But with the release of SOLIDWORKS 2018 a new Mesh Body type was added, which…
Recently we have been receiving questions about how to 3D scan parts into SOLIDWORKS… “How do I convert a physical part into SOLIDWORKS?” or “we’ve lost the model file but I’ve got a physical part, how can I get it into SOLIDWORKS?” So we have…
Do you need to tweak a critical component but have no CAD data or drawings? Has one of your machine parts been discontinued? Discover the power of reverse engineering using an Artec 3D Scanner and SOLIDWORKS! Portable handheld scanners can be used anywhere to capture…
Starting with the 2016 version, users of SOLIDWORKS Professional can use the ScanTo3D add-in to create CAD models from scanned data. This add-in was previously only available with SOLIDWORKS Premium. For more details about SOLIDWORKS license types refer to SOLIDWORKS Product Matrix. There are three ways for…