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buildsjetsyesterday at 5:32 PM0 repliesview on HN

CATIA has had mesh import with canonical feature detection, and automatic replacement with parametric part features, for at least 25 years. It's in the "Quick Surface Reconstruction" and "Basic Surface Recognition" tools. They even work sometimes.

https://3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/wiki/catia-user-communit...

https://resources.rand3d.com/insights-from-within/scanned-da...

Unfortunately the P3 license costs like $15k per year, and it is f'in ugly clunky software.