3.8 - Reverse Engineering Project

Introduction

Reverse-engineering is the act of dismantling an object to see how it works. It is done primarily to analyze and gain knowledge about the way something works but often is used to duplicate or enhance the object. Many things can be reverse-engineered, including software, physical machines, military technology and even biological functions related to how genes work. In this activity we will take existing products and reverse engineer them to create a CAD model.

Overview

This project will be split into 2 parts. 

1. Reverse Engineering a Pencil

2. Reverse Engineering a product of your choosing

For each of these projects you will create multi-component Models of the products.  In the case of the pencil, it has 4 distinct components. For your Choice Product, it must comprise of at least 3 custom CAD component parts.  The model can include imported screws and washers, but these do not count as custom components, they are COTS.

For each of these designs you will provide: 

• A picture of the product.

• A picture of the scratch paper you used to map out the dimensions and different parts

• A screenshot of the fully assembled model of the product. 

• A shared link to your model

• Screenshots of each component

• Screenshot of the web based render and auto explode of the model

Copy the following Template into your engineering notebook:

3.8 - Reverse Engineering Project (ENT)

Now work along with the following video to develop an understanding for some more advanced Modeling tools: