Employees of Q-Tech Roding work in front of the ZEISS METROTOM 1500 computer tomograph

Technologies

CT
KMS
3D scan

Short and sweet

The goal is to enable the redesign of an existing product quickly and easily. We convert scan results into a CAD model. Your corresponding component is measured without contact.

"With our solution, you speed up the entire process, avoid unnecessary extra effort for redesign, and get CAD models in no time."
Employee works in front of a computer tomograph

This is how it works

The basis for our state-of-the-art reverse engineering technology is formed by data from the computer tomograph, which we generate in-house from your components. All we need is the original component to create a virtual model. We capture inaccessible component geometries and extract accurate design elements from them. Based on this data, we use our professional software and years of know-how to create true-to-size CAD models in common formats. In addition, our software makes it possible to create CAD models of individual components or several assembled parts in assembled position.

According to your individual needs, we take into account your production-relevant specifications when creating the CAD model, such as draft angles for castings or mold separation for gate valves. 

In practice

With our process, you can, for example, digitize a manually created component or update existing models. This is particularly helpful if the manufactured parts do not meet the specifications of the original CAD design. In many cases, our process is used for production parts from older plants as well as in the area of individual special machines. In other words, we generate CAD models for old and special parts of which no CAD information is available.

Increasingly, our process is being used for the production of spare parts for vintage cars. Historical pieces can be reconstructed in an uncomplicated way and at the same time allow necessary adaptations to modern production techniques. 

Example of reverse engineering

Our competence at a glance

Services

  • Converting the CT scan into a CAD model
  • Production of a suitable design data set with a true-to-the-original CAD model
  • extract defined sub-areas as a separate CAD file

Advantages

  • Determination of CAD models with all internal and external geometries 
  • non-destructive determination of CAD information without disassembly 
  • no need to learn a CAD system

Our computer tomographs

ZEISS METROTOM 800 in the Q-Tech measurement lab

ZEISS METROTOM 800

  • X-ray tube: 130 kV
  • Measuring accuracy: MPE SD(TS): 2.9+L/100 µm
  • Resolution: 1536 x 1920 pixels (2K detector)
  • max. measuring volume: [mm] Ø 275 x 360
  • Accreditation: yes
  • Determination of dimensional and shape deviations of industrially manufactured products using computed tomography (CT);
  • Determination of 3D nominal/actual deviations of industrially manufactured products based on CAD data or reference data using computed tomography (CT) and corresponding evaluation software;
  • Carrying out analyses in the field of shrinkage testing on workpieces using computed tomography (CT);
ZEISS METROTOM 1500 in the Q-Tech measurement laboratory

ZEISS METROTOM 1500

  • X-ray tube: 225 kV
  • Measuring accuracy: MPE SD(TS): 4.5+L/50 µm
  • Resolution: 3072 x 3072 pixels (3K detector)
  • max. measuring volume: [mm] Ø 615 x 870
  • Accreditation: yes
  • Determination of dimensional and shape deviations of industrially manufactured products using computed tomography (CT);
  • Determination of 3D nominal/actual deviations of industrially manufactured products based on CAD data or reference data using computed tomography (CT) and corresponding evaluation software;
  • Carrying out analyses in the field of shrinkage testing on workpieces using computed tomography (CT);