Bead mills are used to break down the particle size of ingredients in the food industry. The agitator discs wear down in the process and have to be periodically replaced. A customer brought us this badly worn agitator disc to see if we could produce replacements:
We used our laser scanner to produce a point cloud and from this reverse engineered a CAD model using Geomagic Design X software. The CAD model was produced with the worn features filled in. The Geomagic Design X software then converted the CAD model into a native SolidWorks model as shown here:
