Handheld 3D scanner for reverse engineering of stamping die
2019-06-01
Handheld 3D scanners are used in reverse engineering of stamping dies. In an industrial society where the division of labor is becoming more and more detailed, some well-known brand enterprises usually go out to mold manufacturers for the cost-saving and pursuit of maximizing the benefits. They just make the mold manufacturing factory ready for mass production. The mold is brought back to production. In this case, they only have the mold that can actually be produced, and there is no digital data for the mold. At this time, they need to use a handheld 3D scanner to obtain digital data that can be edited by using handheld 3D scanning.
The following describes the application of hand-held stamping dies.
Why do you need to apply reverse engineering to stamping dies? It can be summarized as follows:
a. Actual production of mold CAD
b. produced mold damage
c. lobalization or mass production
We know that the molds that can be mass-produced are not the same as the CAD originally designed. The molds that can be mass-produced have undergone the trial-test stage. The problems found in the trial-test stage will be manually modified for the original mold, but the manual modification is not Feedback to CAD; or in production engineering, the mold is damaged by multiple force stamping, which must re-manufacture the same mold as before. If there is no previous mold data, then all mold verification and manual modification processes must be repeated. Doing it once will be time-consuming and laborious. If we have mold data that can be produced before, we only need to repair the damaged part or make an insert, so we can use the handheld 3D scanner to scan the correct mold or 3D scan data. Back up, you can use this data to make the same mold in the future; another point is that the product needs to be globalized or mass-produced, then you need multiple sets of the same mold, then you need to use the handheld 3D scanner, reverse
The engineering software duplicates multiple sets of identical molds.
In other mold factories that make up the market, reverse engineering is an indispensable part. The traditional practice of mold reverse engineering is to scan the actual finished product first, then use the scan to obtain digital data to build CAD. The mold designer then goes according to CAD. Design the mold. The entire process takes a long time, and now more and more mold factories are gradually applying new process methods. Using the finished product to turn the plaster mold, and then scanning the scraped plaster mold by hand-held 3D scanner, directly using the data from the 3D scanner to process the mold, so that the new process method saves the weightThe tedious work of new painting CAD shortens the production cycle.
