Reverse engineering a Storz cystoscope tip
Design Method were asked to reverse engineer the tip of a Storz cystoscope as part of a medical project. The tip is only 5mm in diameter and includes some complex geometry.
| The video on this page shows the process involved in reverse engineering the tip geometry. The scope itself was too large to fit into a lazer scanning machine. A contact scanner was used as the open bed of the machine allowed the main boyd of the scope to sit on the work bench while the tip was scanned. A special support had to be 3D printed to hold the tip at the correct angle for scanning. The scan process took approximately 1 hour, the high resolution data was then imported into Solidworks. Data is then checked for scale and accuracy before a solid model is consrtucted to fit the data. |
