TX software is a highly capable design tool with a large breadth of capabilities for design, development, analysis, and manufacturing. Using these capabilities requires computer-aided design (CAD) data. In many cases, this data is not available. Parts may be too old to have CAD data, the existing data may be corrupt, or the part may have been modified on the plant floor or job site so that it no longer matches the existing data. Sometimes the data is not available because the product may have been designed by a competitor or other outside firm. Reverse engineering of physical parts is typically accomplished by either measuring them and manually recreating the CAD model, or more frequently, by scanning them and importing the 3D scanned data into a CAD system. The manual process is obviously very timeand labor-intensive, but the traditional scanning process isn’t much better. The scanned data is imported as immutable features, necessitating substantial manual rework before it can be utilized for analysis, 3D printing, manufacturing automation, or any other purpose. Uneven forms are particularly difficult.