<p>Two years later, it seems there is no (open) project to train AI on engineering data and <strong>no AI tool</strong> to reverse engineer things yet.</p>
<p>The growing number of open source hardware projects should provide a good basic training set.. <a href="https://oho.wiki" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://oho.wiki</a> and <a href="https://certification.oshwa.org/list.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://certification.oshwa.org/list.html</a> provide catalogues of specimens for example.. Realtime 3d generation should also be good enough by now to <strong>get this going</strong>..</p>

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<p>Today, if you scan an object and want its CAD file (Solidworks/Autocad), you need to use reverse engineering software (Geomagic). This takes time and you need experience of the software tools. </p>

<p>Is there an AI tool/app that does the job automatically? If not, is this a reasonable idea to develop an AI application capable of doing it? What would be the biggest challenges?</p>

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Is there an AI tool to reverse engineer scanned data to obtain its CAD file?
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# Is there an AI tool to reverse engineer scanned data to obtain its CAD file?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-05-18)

Today, if you scan an object and want its CAD file (Solidworks/Autocad), you need to use reverse engineering software (Geomagic). This takes time and you need experience of the software tools.

Is there an AI tool/app that does the job automatically? If not, is this a reasonable idea to develop an AI application capable of doing it? What would be the biggest challenges?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2022-10-04. Score: 2

Two years later, it seems there is no (open) project to train AI on engineering data and **no AI tool** to reverse engineer things yet.

The growing number of open source hardware projects should provide a good basic training set.. <https://oho.wiki> and <https://certification.oshwa.org/list.html> provide catalogues of specimens for example.. Realtime 3d generation should also be good enough by now to **get this going**..

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