Partially scanned object to (complete) CAD

[[Pr...]]

Hello!

My goal is to reverse engineer complex surfaced object. Its geometry is such, that I can not scan it completely. So I either want to edit it and somehow fill unscanned areas by hand in Zeiss inspect; or I want to be able to make CAD out of it to edit it in, for instance, Creo. How to do that without special licences? I have the option ''actual mesh to CAD'' greyed out aswell.

Also: is it possible to define coordnate system of my mesh elswhere from where it is now (now it's somewhere random and not in axis of rotation).

Any suggestion, advice or instruction is appreciated. Thank you.

Kind regards!

[[Jo...]]

Looks like you could easily get alot more of the surface by checking your Sensor angles and positions to the part.

You can import stl to inspect as CAD. But that doesnt really help.

You can import stl in most Software to "make" a CAD out of it, but for that you need dedicated software.

There might be some free software for that aswell. You could check FreeCAD.

[[No...]]

To reverse engineer you have two options:

The best option is a special reverse engineering software (or a RE module in a CAD package). This needs training and experience. 

The second-best option is "automatic" reverse engineering by Inspect or a similar software. You already mentioned "actual mesh to CAD", this function needs an extra license. The problem with "automatic" reverse engineering is that because the software knows nothing about the important geometries of the part (like planes, bores, etc.) it can only "guess" a number of "randomly" distributed freeform surfaces, which resemble the scanned part, but are practically uneditable in a CAD program as they do not follow any "design intent".

Maybe in the future, with the evolution of AI, we might see automatic reverse engineering software that is able to recognize and correctly recreate geometry elements.