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Reverse Engineering Tools

Complete reference for all Reverse Engineering workbench tools.


Surface Reconstruction

Tool Description
Poisson Reconstruction Reconstruct a watertight mesh from a point cloud with normals
Structured Point Clouds Triangulate a structured (grid) point cloud directly into a mesh

Segmentation

Tool Description
Mesh Segmentation Auto-split a mesh into regions by surface type using curvature analysis
Manual Segmentation Paint mesh regions interactively with a brush
From Components Create one segment per disconnected mesh component
Wire From Mesh Boundary Extract mesh boundary loops as Part wires or a face

Approximation

Tool Description
Approximate Plane Fit a best-fit plane to geometry
Approximate Cylinder Fit a best-fit cylinder to a mesh
Approximate Sphere Fit a best-fit sphere to a mesh
Approximate Polynomial Surface Fit a degree-2 Bézier (quadric) patch to a mesh
Approximate B-Spline Surface Fit a free-form NURBS surface to a point cloud or mesh
Approximate B-Spline Curve Fit a B-spline curve to a point cloud