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[absolute3dau]

What Is Reverse Engineering and When Should You Use It?

In today’s competitive and innovation-driven manufacturing landscape, companies are continually searching for methods to optimize designs, streamline production, and gain deeper insight into existing products. One of the most powerful yet often misunderstood tools that supports these objectives is reverse engineering.

Reverse engineering enables organizations to deconstruct a product or system to understand its components, functions, and design principles. This process is not only used to replicate products but also to analyze their structure, improve upon them, or integrate them into new applications.

This article offers a comprehensive explanation of reverse engineering—what it is, how it works, the technologies involved, its applications across industries, and the scenarios where it proves most valuable.

Defining Reverse Engineering

At its core, reverse engineering is the process of disassembling or analyzing an object to understand how it was designed and manufactured. It involves extracting design information from existing products, often in the absence of technical documentation or original design files.

Unlike traditional engineering, which moves from concept to product, reverse engineering starts with the finished item and works backwards to deduce the original specifications. The insights gained are often used to:

Create 3D models and CAD files

Improve product design

Develop compatible components

Diagnose failures or weaknesses

Reproduce obsolete or legacy parts

Reverse engineering does not necessarily imply copying or duplication. Rather, it is a legitimate and valuable practice in modern product development, maintenance, and innovation.

How Reverse Engineering Works

The reverse engineering process varies depending on the object, industry, and intended outcome, but it generally follows a consistent sequence:

1. Data Acquisition

The first step involves capturing detailed information about the object’s geometry, dimensions, and features. This is typically done using advanced 3D scanning technologies such as:

Laser Scanners: Emit laser beams to detect surface contours.

Structured Light Scanners: Project light patterns and measure distortions to determine surface geometry.

Computed Tomography (CT) Scanners: Capture both internal and external features using X-ray technology.

Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs): Use touch probes to precisely measure specific points.

These tools collect millions of data points, forming a comprehensive digital representation of the object known as a point cloud.

2. Data Processing and Mesh Generation

The raw point cloud data is cleaned, aligned, and processed to remove noise and inconsistencies. The next step is to convert the point cloud into a polygonal mesh—a 3D surface composed of interconnected triangles.

This mesh is then optimized to ensure it accurately reflects the physical object’s shape while maintaining a manageable file size for further use.

3. 3D Modeling and CAD Conversion

Once a high-quality mesh is obtained, it is used to reconstruct the object in a computer-aided design (CAD) environment. Engineers develop a fully parametric or feature-based CAD model that replicates the part’s geometry.

At this stage, material specifications, tolerances, and functional features may also be analyzed and documented. The final CAD model can be edited, shared, or integrated into larger assemblies.

4. Analysis and Application

The finished model is then used for various purposes, including design improvements, simulation, tooling development, or manufacturing reproduction. Engineers may also perform stress tests, fit checks, and other simulations using the digital model.

Key Technologies in Reverse Engineering

Advances in digital manufacturing and metrology have significantly expanded the capabilities of reverse engineering. The following technologies are essential:

3D Scanning

High-resolution 3D scanning tools rapidly capture the surface geometry of physical objects, forming the foundation for all subsequent steps. These scanners vary in accuracy, speed, and suitability depending on the object's size, complexity, and material.

CAD Software

CAD platforms such as SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Siemens NX, and others play a crucial role in interpreting scanned data and creating usable design files. These models are often parametric, allowing engineers to modify features and dimensions easily.

Simulation Tools

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and other simulation tools are used in conjunction with CAD models to evaluate a product’s performance under various conditions. These insights support design optimization and failure analysis.

3D Printing and Prototyping

Rapid prototyping allows teams to test modifications derived from reverse engineering efforts. By printing physical models, engineers can assess fit, function, and ergonomics quickly and affordably.

When Should You Use Reverse Engineering?

Reverse engineering is applicable in a wide range of situations across multiple industries. It is especially useful when dealing with legacy components, product innovation, or systems integration. Below are the most common scenarios that justify the use of reverse engineering.

1. Recreating Obsolete or Legacy Parts

One of the primary uses of reverse engineering is to reproduce discontinued components for machines, vehicles, or systems that are no longer supported by the original manufacturer. With no access to original drawings or tooling, reverse engineering provides a reliable way to maintain critical assets and extend their lifecycle.

This is particularly valuable in aerospace, defense, rail, and heavy industries, where replacing entire systems is impractical or cost-prohibitive.

2. Product Improvement and Optimization

Reverse engineering enables manufacturers to analyze existing products and identify opportunities for improvement. Engineers can assess design weaknesses, material inefficiencies, or manufacturing complexities and apply innovative solutions to enhance performance, durability, or cost-effectiveness.

The process often leads to

Lighter and stronger designs

Reduced manufacturing steps

Better ergonomics or aesthetics

Improved energy efficiency

3. Competitive Analysis

Organisations often use reverse engineering to examine competitor products and gain insights into their features, performance, and manufacturing techniques. This helps in benchmarking, identifying intellectual property challenges, and driving innovation.

While care must be taken to respect legal and ethical boundaries, competitive reverse engineering is a legitimate practice used for market intelligence and strategic planning.

4. Integrating New Components with Existing Systems

In cases where new parts or systems need to work seamlessly with older components, reverse engineering ensures dimensional compatibility and functionality. By modeling the existing hardware accurately, engineers can design new components that align perfectly without trial and error.

This use is common in:

Automotive retrofits

Industrial equipment upgrades

Electronic system integration

5. Quality Control and Inspection

Reverse engineering is sometimes used as a validation tool in quality assurance. By scanning and modeling a manufactured part, teams can compare it to the original design and detect any deviations or defects.

This process enhances dimensional verification, especially for complex geometries that are difficult to measure with traditional tools.

6. Digital Archiving

Preserving the design data of critical components through reverse engineering creates a digital archive for future reference. This is important in museums, aerospace restoration, and asset management, ensuring that data is never lost even if physical components degrade or disappear.

Industries Benefiting from Reverse Engineering

The versatility of reverse engineering means it is widely applicable across a variety of sectors:

Aerospace

Airplane components, many of which have long service lifecycles, often require replacement or refurbishment after the original manufacturing data is lost. Reverse engineering ensures structural integrity and regulatory compliance.

Automotive

Classic cars, custom vehicles, and prototype parts benefit greatly from reverse engineering. It enables part reproduction, modification, and even digital recreation of entire vehicle systems.

Medical Devices

Medical implants, prosthetics, and surgical instruments are reverse-engineered to improve functionality, ensure anatomical fit, or replicate discontinued designs.

Consumer Electronics

Electronics companies often disassemble products to understand PCB layouts, circuitry, and design logic. This enables repair, customization, or the development of compatible accessories.

Industrial Manufacturing

Reverse engineering supports tooling design, process improvement, and machine maintenance. It is also used to digitize old parts or machinery for integration into modern workflows.

The Role of Reverse Engineering in Innovation

Beyond its practical applications, reverse engineering fosters innovation by bridging the gap between legacy knowledge and modern capabilities. It encourages experimentation, cross-functional learning, and iterative improvement.

By understanding the details of how a product works, engineers can:

Identify underutilized features

Explore alternative materials

Develop more efficient manufacturing methods

Combine legacy and modern technologies

This approach is particularly important for companies striving to remain competitive in rapidly evolving markets. It allows them to leapfrog development stages, reduce R&D costs, and bring products to market faster.

Ethical and Legal Considerations

While reverse engineering is a powerful tool, it must be practiced within ethical and legal boundaries. It is important to respect patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and intellectual property (IP) rights.

Organizations using reverse engineering must ensure their efforts do not infringe on protected designs. In many jurisdictions, reverse engineering for interoperability or repair purposes is legal, but copying patented elements without permission is not.

Working with professional providers of reverse engineering services in Australia ensures that all procedures are carried out in compliance with local laws and international IP standards.

Choosing the Right Reverse Engineering Partner

The effectiveness of reverse engineering relies heavily on the skill, experience, and tools used. Partnering with specialists who understand materials science, digital modeling, and manufacturing processes ensures accurate, high-quality results.

Providers offering reverse engineering services in Australia are equipped with advanced scanning systems, robust CAD platforms, and cross-industry expertise. They help clients navigate complex engineering challenges, from legacy part digitization to modern product development, while maintaining confidentiality and regulatory compliance.

Conclusion

Reverse engineering is a powerful, multi-purpose process that enables organizations to derive valuable design and manufacturing data from existing physical products. Whether used for reproduction, enhancement, integration, or analysis, it offers significant advantages across the product lifecycle.

By turning physical objects into digital intelligence, reverse engineering allows industries to move forward while learning from the past. It supports innovation, sustainability, and precision in a world where adaptability and speed are crucial to success.

As industries increasingly adopt digital technologies and advanced manufacturing techniques, reverse engineering will play an even more integral role—especially when executed by trusted professionals who offer comprehensive reverse engineering services in Australia and beyond.

[platypu]

[miirshroom]

Reading between the lines on a narrative (Realm of the Elderlings)

Speculating on some possibilities that are hinted at, but that don't get explored because FitzChivalry is not an omnipotent narrator and sometimes makes observations without grasping the meaning. Mostly involving the way that the magic system interacts with the psychology of various characters in the Farseer trilogy, and that there isn't really enough context for a reader to understand until after also reading the Tawny Man Trilogy. One example involving the Wit, and one involving the Skill.

1. Duke Brawndy of Bearns knew that Fitz was Witted (and saw that as a favourable trait)

Brawndy met Fitz only once and afterwards had a surprising interest in marrying him into the family. In the second trilogy it is discussed how the Wit is a secret kept in the nobility and implied that Brawndy's daughter Faith might be Witted herself. At the end of Royal Assassin Brawndy speaks on behalf of Fitz and has very specific terms: "Prove to us...that FitzChivalry is Witted, and that he used the Wit to kill King Shrewd, and we will let you put him to death as you see fit". And if Regal cannot prove that Fitz used the Wit to kill King Shrewd then Fitz shall have the stewardship of Buckkeep. Brawndy tacitly declared that Fitz having the Wit alone is not a dealbreaker. If Brawndy knows the Wit including its powers and limitations then he believes that he has set Regal an impossible task - a Wit Beast might kill a person but the Wit itself can't kill and leave no mark as was done with King Shrewd. There is also the implication that the Dukes are paying attention to the physical damage done to Fitz, thinking that should provide him a measure of protection.

But still Fitz is a pawn and though the most desirable outcome is that 1) Regal gets impatient and just goes away to Tradeford, which leaves FitzChivalry effectively the leader of the Coastal Duchies, it is more likely that 2) Regal kills Fitz against their wishes and the Dukes get what they wanted anyways - confirmation that Regal will not follow due process and is no true king to the coastal duchies. It's a win-win for the Coastal Dukes - the schism between the Coastal and Inland Duchies was an inevitability anyways. In that case, Brawndy's blindspot would be that he doesn't count on the 3rd option from Regal's use of the Skill. He doesn't know what Fitz knows - that Regal can and will use the Skill to make him speak lies naming Brawndy's own daughter a traitor and more. Brawndy sees Regal as a creature of the Inland Duchies and a coward. He doesn't understand Regal's special brand of selfish insanity that leads him to actively sabotage the Coastal Duchies chances for survival. If Brawndy is familiar with the ways of the Old Blood then he understands how a healthy predator might cede territory to a rival rather than waste the effort to hold onto it, but doesn't comprehend that Regal has more in common with the Forged Ones who are more like rabid beasts. And so Fitz's options are narrowed to requiring his death.

As for how Brawndy could know that Fitz was Witted, that is fairly straightforwards - it's a much more open secret than Fitz thinks that it is. Black Rolf explains to Fitz that he doesn't guard his thoughts to Nighteyes in the way that is taught among the Old Blood. It follows that Fitz has been doing this for all his life and so any Witted person in his proximity is picking up on signals that he doesn't even realize. Fitz recalls and records the ways that he screwed up in keeping his secret of having the Wit, such as when wolf tracks were found in places where he had been fighting Forged Ones with Nighteyes, the time when Nighteyes attacked Justin with the Skill through him, and the time when the girl in Neatbay saw him in the company of a wolf and believed him to have transformed. He can't record what he doesn't know, and the volatility of his status as a royal bastard could have been such that none of the Old Blood nobility were willing to make him aware of themselves in the way that they later would with Prince Dutiful.

2. Chade was Skill-imprinted with a command to be loyal to King Shrewd (and the hidden mechanics of skill-imprinting are one of the most understated drivers of conflict)

Skill imprinting a command seems to be such an intuitive use of the Skill that at least 3 characters have done it accidentally - Chivalry to Galen, Verity to Fitz, and Fitz to Dutiful. Fitz speculates that Galen's coterie must have been Skill-imprinted to serve Regal so completely as they do, in place of the true King Verity. It takes Fitz a long time to break Galen's imprinted command that he has no Skill ability and should kill himself. If he ever truely broke it - considering that he never describes a moment like Dutiful had where he found the command and deliberately severed it. And then Fitz himself incepts it into Regal's mind that he should be loyal to Kettricken and her heir, which seems to bookend the skill-imprinting sub-arc.

King Shrewd was once strong in the Skill, and the only fully trained Skill user in the narrative other than Kettle. Chade always laments not being trained in the Skill, but he does have the ability to learn it, and it is often shown that Skill users have the easiest time reaching the minds of other Skill users. There is nothing stopping Shrewd from long ago using the Skill to subtly command Chade to never even think of doing harm to Shrewd or his offspring. Creating a councillor and assassin with absolute loyalty to Shrewd - but only as long as he remains ignorant of the true power of the Skill. It could explain how Fitz has such a hard time getting his usually sharp mentor to pay attention to the threat presented by Regal. It's only after the death of Shrewd that Chade starts being a more active force in the world. It could be that such Skill commands quietly dissipate once the originator dies, but that echoes of them remain in mental pathways. And would persist unless directly confronted. There's a hint of this near the end of Fool's Fate where Chade is eager to carry out the command of the dragon and Fitz notes that it is normal of Chade to justify a reason for why he's not following an order but instead doing something that he wanted to do anyways. As if such thinking is a habit for him.

It would beg the question of why the Skill coterie would remain loyal to Regal past the death of Galen, if Galen did indeed command them to be loyal to Regal. Probably a few factors. Firstly - Verity burned out the ability of their leader, and then proceeded to hold the remains of Galen's coterie at a distance. Verity had not the time or the ability to undo what Galen had done to break them to his will, just as he and Chivalry hadn't known how to undo the skill command on Galen. Even if the coterie was imperfect, it was thought to be better to have any amount of far distance communication than to have none. Verity gave them reason to hate and fear him and then never made any attempt to reclaim their loyalty. Fitz was given the attention by Verity needed to work through the block created by Galen's Skill command, and it's the Skill link to Verity as much as the kindness that keeps his loyalty to Verity strong.

Secondly, Galen had time and opportunity to master the ability to imprint commands. He had no students for many years so he had little more to do than think about the command implanted in his mind by Chivalry. Consider from every angle how that kind of magic may work, and find ways to close or open loopholes. Fitz understands that skill imprinting can be used in obvious ways like Verity's "Come to me" or his own "Stop fighting me" to Dutiful, but he never seems to unpack that it could be done more subtly. Even Galen's hasty commands to Fitz were more subtle than either of those examples, and Galen could probably do much better if given time and a pliable subject. Extrapolating further, it may even be that failing all other methods Galen realized that Chivalry's death was the last element required to break his Skill command to Galen, and managed to convey to Queen Desire that her ambitions for Regal could proceed after Chivalry's assassination.

Lastly, by the time that the coterie was whittled down to Will, Burl and Carrod they despised Fitz for their own reasons that could only reinforce any prior imprinting by Galen. Fitz has attacked Justin and had killed Justin and Serene. Fitz is an enemy and Fitz is loyal to Verity (who they still hold a grudge towards), therefore they were right to stick with Regal. Regal feeds their hate of Fitz and in return they serve him despite all evidence that he is a cruel and abusive person. They make up their own logic to justify why Regal deserves to have their loyalty. Probably even on some level realizing that they crossed a moral line long ago, and fearing what Verity will visit upon them in retribution if he succeeds in rousing the Elderlings.

[jasontoddsno1simp]

Listen...

All I'm saying is that if the narrative is gonna bend over backwards to justify every shitty action Bruce Wayne does (up to and including literal fucking child abuse) cause he watched his parents die at age 8, it's my duty as a contrarian faggot to do the same for Jason

[bananonbinary]

gonna kick the beehive here but i really don't understand the plagerism argument against ai. the chain of logic seems to be

it has my art somewhere ->i dont want that->thats stealing->stealing is bad

but. i dont actually agree with some of those steps? traditionally, having a copyrighted thing stored somewhere isnt stealing in and of itself. if it was, then home recordings of tv shows and burned CDs would be illegal (and oh, the corporations would dearly love to make them illegal). the harm caused is in the *reproduction* of the IP. you can dvr a tv movie, chop and screw it all you want, but you cannot show it to other people. the crime is declared when actual harm is done to the victim (in this case, monetary harm from loss of sales).

so like, when people talk about not wanting ai to be trained on their publicly-viewable artwork, i don't really think that's IP theft in any meaningful way? i mean, i'm sorry your art is being looked at or even stored by people you don't want, and i do sympathize on a data privacy level, but...it's not reproducing anything. there is no measurable harm on a copyright level. you can make an argument maybe that it'd be more polite to ask first, but the argument that it should be ILLEGAL is just begging corporations to do what they've been wanting for decades, and completely destroy the concept of being able to "own" copyrighted material.

(also "ai is stealing jobs" is a different and more complicated argument, this post is about the validity of a copyright argument specifically)

[stag-beetle-baybe]

NEVER try to make sense of character designs when it comes to their clothing if its something elaborate

it WILL drive you crazy

[thelioncourts]

FYI this person is talking about you in the tags, if you haven’t seen

https://www.tumblr.com/pynkhues/780876674989457408/anon-im-not-going-to-post-it-at-your-request

I don’t know who they are 🤷🏼‍♀️

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[skrunksthatwunk]

ooh!! i just got hit with some BAD reading comprehension in the group discussion board

[dallonwrites]

okay actually looked at the lover boy wip intro again and this has me crazy because the grief in this was meant to all be about bobby but "remember that his favourite fruit was peaches and try not to cry over it" got me because felix's favourite fruit being peaches is like. a recent but definitive part of his character. and i can't remember if i just used peaches as a placeholder for bobby's favourite fruit (he does not give peach to me) and if i first wrote this before or after i decided peaches were felix's BUT now i'm like. what if this passage is him grieving bobby but it spirals around his grief for his relationship with felix??? find a lover the way you found felix and don't lose him this time but also find a lover because you're trying to find a connection as deep as the one you had with your best friend even though you know it can never be replicated. you can never find a lover that will love you like bobby (platonic, to be clear) loved you. find a lover in the fact you are alive even though it makes you nauseous because it just reminds you that your best friend isn't. how do you grieve someone who's still alive whilst simultaneously grieve someone who isnt? trying to grieve two people in two different ways and you feel guilty at the way they blend and blur because it feels like you lose your separate grips on both of them and you don't feel like you have space in you to accommodate all this ache. and like what if i edited all this to make that parallel more clear?? that his primary grief is bobby because he's the one who's dead but he's also grieving felix and probably doesn't even realise it?? and then the two become blurred?? and if he realised this he would actually feel fucking awful about it and like a bad friend?? haha just kidding unless??

[miirshroom]

Been working on another Elden Ring breakdown of notable observations in a specific location. With all the corpses strewn about, sometimes it feels like solving a murder mystery, or in general some other kind of "whodunit" puzzle. Then I remembered that the story trailer for Elden Ring has always pointed at basically that.

Means, motive, and opportunity are the three main indicators of suspicion for an investigation. For the breaking of the Elden Ring in particular we are told the means explicitly just for making it to the end: Marika's Hammer. We are also told in the item description who did it: Marika. In this way bypassing the need to guess a perpetrator based on opportunity. So all that remains is the motive.

That is what the game is asking the players to do. Maybe even more specifically, this is what Ranni is asking the players to do. Review all of the evidence scattered throughout the Lands Between to figure out Marika's motive for Shattering the Elden Ring.

It's a "whydunit" story.

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[eclecticsophism]

any experienced multimodal analysts have any Thoughts on ELAN? i'm on a hunt for a mac-compatible software for annotating vids that allows for a customizable coding scheme. lots of the ones i've seen are for conversation analysis -- which is awesome, but not aligned with my needs

[elipsi]

i downloading springer textbooks pdfs is a crime then lock me up 🙄

[cowboyabunga]

Homes are expensive because of landlords hoarding them for profit, not because of regulations.