Re-Design & Reverse Engineering

At MD Design, we have helped many customers with our expertise in re-design and reverse engineering. We have found a variety of uses for this process. For example, we can build a one-of-a-kind replacement part for a customers machine because the machine or part is longer made. Another example of our reverse engineering is for a customer who was using an old wood mold to make concrete parts. They have been pouring concrete into the mold to create this decorative part for many
years, but the water and concrete have taken its toll and
MD Design developed a solution to create a new mold.

Our team works with state-of-the-art 3D modeling software to make the necessary re-design of the mold. Models and drawings of designs or any re-engineered part can be emailed or faxed to a customer for viewing before any actual machining is performed. We can also reverse-engineer worn out or broken parts and produce new parts with a drawing for future reference. We can also redesign parts made as castings to be made as weldments, which gives the advantage of a short lead-time and a more repair-friendly design.

1. To the right, is a photo of the two halves of an old wood mold one of our customers was using to create a concrete part. You can see it was falling apart with age and use.
2. MD Design seamlessly models the actual part using a Chameleon Direct computer-controlled measuring machine. This model is then scanned with the CMM and imported into CAD to produce an electronic copy. The CAD data can now be imported into a CAM package for machining. Importing the data back into PC-DMIS cad++ the file can now be used as a master to inspect the final machined part.
3. We then machine a first model in rough form of what the final mold will look like.
4. Finally we then finish the process by machining to the final tolerances.

If you would like to discuss our Reengineering process please give us a call or email through the contact us page.