Reverse engineering is the process of using the information you obtain from a component to either recreate it or modify it.
[Co-ordinate Measuring Machines (CMM)]
? can be used to digitise
? your component and the information can be utilised in computer aided modelling.
New and improved techniques in reverse engineering include [Laser Scanning]
? which, as the name implies, uses laser beams to scan across the surface of components of any shape and display the results in real time.