Reverse Engineering:

In many cases, customers do not have the technical drawing of a part to be remade/revised in their machinery, but only a (worn) piece as a basis or model. The first step in the manufacturing process at Stewal is always Reverse Engineering: digitizing a physical model, with the aim of being able to produce/optimize it using digital manufacturing methods.

A 3D scanner as a tool for the engineering department:

Stewal is increasingly asked to digitize "organic surfaces" or 3D objects for subsequent optimization. Therefore, Stewal invested in a handheld scanner as a user-friendly tool for the CAD and engineering department, allowing for quickly creating a digital copy of an object, if necessary on site. We deliberately looked beyond classical metrology and towards the rapidly advancing technologies that align with the world of 3D printing. The output of this 3D scanning operation is a .stl file, which can immediately serve as input for 3D printing or further used as a basis by engineering for 3D CAD modeling.