Reverse Engineering Based Methodology for Redesigning Contour Milling Tools - World Journal of Engineering and Technology

WJET > Vol.4 No.3, October 2016

Reverse Engineering Based Methodology for Redesigning Contour Milling Tools ()

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DOI: 10.4236/wjet.2016.43D025 1,283 Downloads 2,234 Views

Author(s)

A. P. Valerga^*, M. Batista, J. Salguero, A. Gomez-Parra, M. Marcos

Affiliation(s)

Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Cadiz, Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain.

ABSTRACT

Reverse Engineering (RE) involves the use of techniques aimed to retrieve information about manufactured products, not only regarding geometries, but also materials and functionality. Today, even if several RE techniques are known, many of them still leave the object unusable to analyze. Nevertheless, other alternatives to this problem allows for obtaining a Digital or Virtual Model (VM) via the three-dimen- sional scanning. Getting the VM of an item, via scanning or not, can offer many possibilities to digital analysis (FEM). Furthermore, starting from VM, it is possible to achieve the physical reproduction of an element, part or workpiece—in the same or different materials—using Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies. This enables to improve the product through a redesign process. In this paper, a RE based methodology is proposed for redesigning a tool for contour milling, after comparing different microscopy based techniques, 3D-Scanner tools and CAD-CAGD utilities for generating a Virtual Model of the newly designed mill.

KEYWORDS

Reverse Engineering, Cutting Tools, Simulation, 3D Scanning, Modelling

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Valerga, A. , Batista, M. , Salguero, J. , Gomez-Parra, A. and Marcos, M. (2016) Reverse Engineering Based Methodology for Redesigning Contour Milling Tools. World Journal of Engineering and Technology, 4, 206-212. doi: 10.4236/wjet.2016.43D025.

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