Reverse engineering capabilities allow designers to use input from physical components at every stage of the design-to-manufacturing process. This approach not only allows for accurate design representation and rapid comparisons of physical legacy data, but also bridges the physical-to-digital environments. Geometric representation can be created in a fraction of the time of conventional CAD systems.

Imageware allows physical parts with no CAD description to be brought into any CAD/CAM system for subsequent design and analysis. Imageware point processing allows the user to clean up, sample, filter, merge, cross section, offset, project point sets, extract points and compute dimensions for critical features and edges. This is critically important, particularly when processing thousands or perhaps millions of points typically collected from today’s optical scanners