Abstract
Boeing's working definition opens the talk: reverse engineering is using the normal or as-built condition of an object to lay out, construct and design in 3D space – obtaining and using actual measurement data so that a virtual product model can serve design, manufacturing and support. John Costello's subject is doing that at large scale, where the object will not fit in any measurement volume and the model has to be good enough to design against.
Cite this paper
John Costello. The Boeing Company, Boeing Research & Technology. Presented at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference 2011, Phoenix, Arizona, July 25-29, 2011. Coordinate Metrology Society, reference CMS-2011-009.