The Application And Research Of Reverse Engineering In The Field Of Vehicle Bodywork Design

Automotive industry is a technology-intensive and matured industry; it is a good carrier for many leading automotive techniques. Also we know that the product development is the kernel of automotive technology. With more than ten years' improvement, the development of integrated technology has a large speed and keeps along with the international advancement. The technology of computer and information has been used in automotive design and development wider and wider.With the quick development of computer and information technology, its applications become more and more important. The Automotive body design has crossed the stage of manual drafting, and entered the era of 3D geometric modeling. Because of the pervasive application of CAD skills, it brings more and more requests to the quality of automotive body surface model. Comparing with the high technologies of the overseas, it needs great improvement for domestic automotive development technology. We just begin to design all-digital automotive body models, and to study many new applications. For some unfamiliar high techniques, we need more time to recognize and research them, such as surface fairing technique, computer-based evaluation technique, rapid prototype process of automotive body model, etc.The importance of reverse engineering in the field of vehicle bodywork design is addressed in this paper. It also indicates the conception and the application of reverse engineering. Combined with the specialty of bodywork designing and its manufacture, it introduces the latest technology,equipment,software and the skills which refer to the reverse engineering in practice, and also tells how to build and evaluate the model. With the help of Reverse engineering,Concurrent Engineering and Computer technology, I built a practical concurrent designing platform in the field of Bodywork designing, accelerating the process of automobile designing.