Reverse engineering continued...

Reverse engineering has always been a hot research topic in the universities. Stanford university gave birth to a product called Paraform (financially backed by paul allen). In 1999 and 2000 there was a lot of noise about this company. But they burned all the cash(abt $70 million) and had to close the doors.

Geomagic is another product from Raindrop geomagic in north carolina university. These products costs around $20,000 and serve a niche market. They do an amazing job of cleaning up point cloud data and forming surfaces fitting those points.