About

AUTO3DSRE is a curated showcase of automotive 3D scanning and reverse engineering, born from the Automotive 3D Scanning & Reverse Engineering community: real physical parts captured with 3D scanners, converted into usable digital geometry, and sometimes taken all the way to a manufactured replacement.

Why it exists

Many of the parts featured here are hard to find: discontinued, damaged, or no longer available. Instead of relying only on scrapyards, old stock, or back-ordered parts that may never arrive, 3D scanning and reverse engineering give us another option: preserve, recreate, improve, or reproduce the part digitally.

Real projects, documented

This is a showcase, not a file dump. Each project may cover different stages of the process: raw scan data, mesh cleanup, CAD modelling, measurements, prototypes, or the final manufactured part.

Research scanners and software

Every project lists the 3D scanner it was captured with and the software used along the way. If you are deciding which scanner to buy or which tools to learn, you can browse projects and filter by scanner or tool to see the results people actually get on real automotive parts, not demo objects.

Community and credit

Projects are selected from the Automotive 3D Scanning & Reverse Engineering Facebook group or shared directly by the people involved in maintaining this site. Every project credits its author: click an author's name to see more of their work.

For project submissions, corrections, partnerships, or general questions, use the contact page.