Students

For students: photogrammetry, reverse engineering and CAD, free

Projects, labs and theses without licenses or expensive hardware. Learn the full professional workflow (capture, reconstruction, mesh, metrology and parametric CAD) by asking your agent and reading the code and report it produces.

Install for freeView on GitHub

The problem

  • Professional software licenses are not always available outside the lab.
  • 3D scanners are expensive and scarce.
  • It is hard to understand what each photogrammetry step does.

What you get

  • The whole pipeline with your phone and your computer, even without a GPU.
  • report.json with the data of each step for your report or thesis.
  • OpenSCAD/CadQuery code to study and modify.

How to do it with your AI agent

  1. 01

    Install with one sentence

    No admin rights, no Python needed.

    “Install reverse3d from https://github.com/rellytechgame/Reverse3D-tool following its AGENTS.md, in lite mode and using only the CPU.”

  2. 02

    Digitize your object

    Photos with your phone.

    “Turn the photos in project/ into a 3D model and explain each step.”

  3. 03

    Document

    Dimensions, render and CAD for your submission.

    “Measure project/model.stl and make a render for the report.”

From the terminal

reverse3d run photos_to_model project/ output/

Start in 1 minute

Paste this sentence into Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or Windsurf:

Install reverse3d from https://github.com/rellytechgame/Reverse3D-tool following its AGENTS.md. You have my permission to run the installer; don't ask me any questions.

Frequently asked questions

Is it really free?

Yes, open source under Apache-2.0. The default AI depth model is Apache-2.0 too.

Does it run on a laptop without a GPU?

Yes. With the fast profile and lite mode it takes less space and runs faster.