The reverse engineering technology form determination and form profiling in the product development

Overview on the state of the art of modern Reverse Engineering technologies and software trends. Since 1980, RE-technologies have been developed for CAD applications. However, only the fast optical scanning devices and the Rapid Prototyping technology which allow the complete and also feature-baed digitalisation and physical reconstruction of prototypes help to get them accepted. In 1994 began the successful applications of RE-technology in product development in the field of form determination and form profiling.