Geomagic Studio

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Geomagic announces a new version of Geomagic Studio software that adds powerful surface manipulation capabilities to its award-winning Fashion module while improving performance for point and polygon processing tools. Geomagic Studio is the world’s leading software for creating accurate 3D digital models from scan data of physical objects.

New in Fashion

The Geomagic Fashion module in Geomagic Studio 10x automatically identifies, analyzes and corrects imperfections in scan data to create high-quality geometric and freeform surfaces that can be further manipulated in CAD. This greatly reduces the time required to bring physical forms into the digital realm for mechanical design applications such as new design and reverse engineering. Major new features and enhancements to Geomagic Fashion include:

* Constrained surface-fitting capabilities for perfectly aligning surfaces and correcting
imperfections in the as-built model or scan data.
* Automatic surface extension and trimming capabilities for creating perfectly sharp
edges between neighboring surfaces, making edges and surfaces faster and easier to
manipulate downstream in CAD.
* Advanced tools that enable users to exclude regions of a mesh that deviate from the
desired surface classification, resulting in a more accurate representation of the digitized
part.

New automatic surface extension and trimming capabilities in the Fashion module for Geomagic Studio 10x create perfectly sharp edges between neighboring surfaces, making edges and surfaces faster and easier to manipulate downstream in CAD.

Better polygon models

Geomagic Capture Scanner. The first scanning device that PADT recommends is the Geomagic Capture Scanner. A leader in price/performance, the Capture provides greater ease-of-use and accuracy compared to hand-held laser scanners at about the same price point.
Artec Studio 12 and SOLIDWORKS license holders can now export 3D models directly into SOLIDWORKS by using the Geomagic professional plugin, one of the most advanced scan-to-SOLIDWORKS solutions on the market today.

What is Geomagic for SOLIDWORKS? Imagine being able to capture anything in the physical world and have a digital solid model of it in minutes. Geomagic ® for SOLIDWORKS is a reverse engineering software toolset that plugs directly into your SOLIDWORKS environment, giving you advanced capabilities to make tools, point clouds, and polygons more usable in your design process.

Geomagic Studio 10x also includes enhancements that improve performance and quality of point and polygon processing. An improved algorithm for registration helps users create more accurate point clouds from scan data, and a new decimation methodology produces smaller, yet still accurate, polygon models.

Geomagic Studio 10x provides major improvements that accelerate every step in creating intelligent, CAD-ready surfaces. The latest release features a new registration algorithm for more accurate point clouds, a new decimation algorithm for more efficient polygon models, and powerful new surface manipulation capabilities.

Front-end for Class A surfaces

Geomagic Studio 10x with Geomagic Fashion further speeds, automates and simplifies the workflow of transforming scan data into a Class A surface model. Its capabilities make it an ideal complement to design tools such as Autodesk AliasStudio.

“Geomagic Studio 10x with Geomagic Fashion streamlines what was previously a time-consuming and tedious process of moving from points to polygons to Class A surfaces,” says Karl Matthews, director of product management for Geomagic. “In conjunction with AliasStudio, it allows designers to bypass challenging modeling procedures and concentrate on the design process.”

Solutions for specific applications

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Geomagic Studio 10x comes in three editions to suit the needs of mechanical design and medical/scientific markets:

* Geomagic Studio – Fashion Edition is the premier product for mechanical design
applications such as new design and reverse engineering. It includes Geomagic Fashion
for automatically extracting design intent from scanned physical object, providing the
fastest way to go from scanning to CAD-ready surfaces.
* Geomagic Studio – Shape Edition is designed for medical and scientific applications
where users want to create exact 3D replicas of organic objects such as bones or
historical artifacts. It includes the Geomagic Shape surfacing module for creating
water-tight NURBS surfaces.
* Geomagic Studio – Complete Edition is ideal for mechanical designers who want to
extract design intent from existing objects and perform FEA and CFD analysis on as-built
parts. This edition includes Geomagic Fashion for design work and Geomagic Shape for
creating models of as-built parts.

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Geomagic 10x will be available in early 2009.

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Geomagic Studio

Create accurate digital models from physical parts
Geomagic Studio automatically creates accurate models from scan data of physical parts. Use Geomagic Studio to capture, describe and represent the complex objects of the real world for use in CAD, CAM, or CAE systems.
Begin with the physical object, rather than a blank screen
With Geomagic Studio, you start with the physical object, rather than a blank screen that requires you to input the dimensions and shapes define the object. This allows you to leverage or repurpose existing designs or work with objects with no CAD data.
Close the loop between digital and physical
Geomagic Studio closes the loop and aligns the physical and digital worlds, ensuring that the design model is an accurate representation of the as-built product. You do not need to manually compensate for the differences between the as-built product and the CAD model due to manufacturing or wear and tear conditions.
Design better products
Use Geomagic Studio to capture and create models of hand-tooled or as-produced objects for use in analysis software such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD) or finite element analysis (FEA). Through digital analysis, create better products, increase product performance, ensure safety, and reduce human or manufacturing error and risk.
Increase design efficiencies
Geomagic Studio provides powerful automation with manual controls and tools to accelerate and simplify the 3D modeling process while offering full user control.
Obtain high quality models
Geomagic Studio passed PTB’s strict standards for surface- and curve-fitting algorithms. Geomagic Studio also utilizes several patented technology and algorithms that enable the generation of 3D models with high quality surfaces, accurate geometry, color and textures.
Stay compatible with standards
Geomagic Studio works with popular 3D scanners, CAD and graphics software, and rapid manufacturing systems. You can be assured that your investment in Geomagic technology is fully compatible with your other technology investments.
Model with multiple data representations
Geomagic Studio offers true multi-format modeling, covering the most commonly used 3D data representations: points, polygons and NURBS. Data integrity is ensured no matter how you represent your model
Achieve a variety of applications
With Geomagic Studio, you can process and model limitless, complex shapes for an infinite variety of applications including reverse engineering, design and analysis, mass production of customized devices, build-to-order manufacturing, visualization and digital archiving.

Geomagic Qualify

Digitally inspect as-built versus as-designed parts
You design in 3D, so why not inspect in 3D? Geomagic Qualify enables fast, accurate, easy-to-understand graphical comparisons between CAD models and as-built parts for first-article inspection, inline or shop-floor inspection, trend analysis, and in-depth assessment.
Inspect products in a fraction of the time
With Geomagic Qualify, inspection and approval can be completed in hours instead of weeks accelerating time to market, significantly reducing cost and giving you a measurable competitive advantage in the design/manufacturing process.
Get accurate, certified results
Geomagic Qualify bases inspection on surfaces defined by tens of thousands of points, rather than the five or ten points that previously defined a CMM surface. PTB certifies that Geomagic Qualify’s fitting results are accurate to less than 0.1 micrometers in length and 0.1 arcseconds (1/36,000 of a degree) in angle compared to the official reference value.
Improve design efficiency
An intuitive user interface guides you through the entire align, compare, evaluate and report workflow. Graphical comparisons of “as designed” vs. “as manufactured” information aids the designer’s understanding of problems, enabling quicker turnaround time for design changes.
Sustain manufacturing quality in real time
Maintain quality control for in-line production and shop-floor inspection. Trend analysis enables statistical process control (SPC) on multiple samples, providing insights into deviation trends. Deviation color maps allow uses to instantly identify problem areas that can be further analyzed – now or later.
Perform in-depth product and process assessment
Take advantage of Geomagic Qualify’s sophisticated analysis features including wall thickness, gap and flush (G&F), edge comparison, geometric dimensioning & tolerancing (GD&T), as well as 2D and 3D dimensioning. Quickly assess out-of-tolerance conditions to enable immediate correction to the manufacturing process.
Collaborate on the inspection process
Generate detailed reports with numeric inspection data, multiple views, annotated user-defined views, notes and conclusions. Use Geomagic Review to share inspection results online with engineers, suppliers, partners, contractors and customers at other physical locations.