Russia's first student Olympiad in Reverse engineering
Tomorrow, February 28, the final will be held at the RTU MIREA Technocovorking site The first All-Russian Student Olympiad "3D scanning. Reverse engineering".
The university itself is the organizer of the large—scale tournament, and ASCON, a leading Russian developer of engineering software, is the general partner.
The competition, which brought together talented students from all over the country, started at the beginning of the month. From February 9 to 13, a remote selection round was held in the format of individual testing, which was attended by 157 students from 20 leading technical universities from 16 regions of the Russian Federation, including universities such as IRNTU, KNRTU-KAI, Bauman Moscow State Technical University (with branches), MEPhI, STANKIN, OmSTU, SPbSUT, Samara University. to them. The Queen and others. Before the testing, training webinars on 3D scanning and 3D modeling were conducted for the participants.
In the final, the ten strongest teams, two people each, will face a practical test. In a limited time, students will have to turn a real physical object into an accurate digital copy suitable for production. Participants will need to:
- Using a manual 3D scanner, get a point cloud of a given object.
- Process the received data and create a full-fledged solid-state model in COMPASS-3D.
- Prepare the drawing and print the model.
The prize fund of the competition is 200 thousand rubles, which will be divided between the winning team and the two winners.
RangeVision is an honored guest of the Olympiad, providing digitization equipment — Calibry handheld 3D scanners, which allow obtaining polygonal models of objects of various geometries and with different surface types with high speed and accuracy. RangeVision experts will monitor the students' work and evaluate the quality of digitization.
In addition to the competitive part, the Olympiad fulfills an important educational mission. Online webinars on working with 3D scanners and obtaining solid geometry in COMPASS-3D were organized for the participants. ASCON experts who developed the Olympiad tasks will be part of the jury and evaluate the finalists' work.
The development of competencies in the field of reverse engineering is critically important for the domestic industry today. The ability to quickly and accurately transfer physical objects to digital is at the heart of import substitution and modernization of production. Competitions such as the RTU MIREA Olympiad not only identify talented young people, but also provide students with practical experience working with equipment and software that is highly valued in the real sector of the economy. According to Stanislav Kudzha, Rector of RTU MIREA, "The Olympiad is a bridge between the university bench and the real tasks of industry."
