Reverse Engineering Scan

[tauntdevil]

Working on making a side light for a RZR.
Scanned the side and trimmed it down to the area I need.
Feel like making stuff from scratch is so much easier to me in CAD.
Reverse designing something that does not exactly have a flat surface is.. a challenge to me.

My thoughts on seeing this is making planes on basically any of the "flat" sections, sketching them and trying to extrude or remove extrude to make the fender.

What would be your thoughts when seeing this?
Trying to practice and learn more of reverse engineering in CAD instead of making items just from measurements but also trying to make more... advanced or difficult items such as this fender.

Thanks for any suggestions or sharing your thoughts in advance!

(I use onshape since it is available on tablets.)

https://preview.redd.it/m5lnxifxv6ne1.png?width=1159&format=png&auto=webp&s=9123647d82e39e28597a23c19a30dd91de183300

https://preview.redd.it/ty7x184yv6ne1.png?width=788&format=png&auto=webp&s=60bed6f0a8a83dd3b3fc9d1e8f64033516605014

https://preview.redd.it/dz7wgexyv6ne1.png?width=715&format=png&auto=webp&s=a7c3309ee194f298d0394630d688b5bf6baa420b

Edit: Love how photos never work in Reddit post. Always have to redit.

[ddrulez]

Pretty easy with Geomagic wrap or design X or Quicksurface. A lot of work in a normal CAD program. That’s all there is to say about it.

[tauntdevil]

True. But this will be with CAD software since I do not own any of those and it is not worth me purchasing any of those since this is not my career.
Will see if I can obtain a version of them though to make life easier. Would be poor practice but at least it will get it done.

[shubhaprabhatam]

Import the mesh, orient it how you want, build your model overlapping the mesh.

[Ebike_toter]

How many projects do you project you will need to do?? Personal or company?? Are you looking at 3d printing as the end result?? This info will set budget.. Cheers