Geomagic Studio 10

The only complete solution for transforming physical parts into manufacturable digital models

Characterization

Geomagic Studio automatically generates an accurate digital model from any physical part. The world's #1 software for automated reverse engineering, Geomagic Studio is also ideal for emerging applications such as mass production of customized devices, build-to-order manufacturing, and automatic re-creation of legacy parts. Only Geomagic Studio delivers all of this:

• Guaranteed watertight polygon and NURBS models
• Ten-fold productivity increases over traditional CAD
  software when processing complex or free-form
  shapes
• Automated features and simplified workflow that
  reduce training time and allow users to bypass tedious,
  labor-intensive tasks
• Integration with all major 3D scanners and CAD/CAM
  software
• Ability to work as a stand-alone application for rapid
  manufacturing or as a complement to CAD software
  

Software-Features 

Scan Registration Tool

Geomagic Studio supports all 3D digitizers, cameras, and scanners in XYZ / ASCII format and handling ordered and unordered surface and volume data. Apply previously defined transformation matrices to simplify orientation of scan data. Manually register multiple point clouds using 1-point and n-point. Automatically register multiple point clouds using target (tooling ball) registration and global registration. Automatically merge multiple scans.

Point Processing

Reduce dense data sets with random, uniform and curvature-based point sampling. Optimize scan overlap with random, uniform and curvature-based point sampling. Reduce scanner errors with comprehensive point cloud noise reduction and the ability to fill holes in the scan data.

Polygon Creation and Repair

Convert point clouds to surface and volumetric polygon models with wrap triangulation. Fill holes in polygon models using curvature-based methods. Optimize polygon density with tolerance and shape-based decimation. Create bridges and fill whole and partial holes in polygon models. Optimize polygon density with tolerance and shape-based decimation. Fix overlapping intersections of triangles. Create open (manifold) polygon models or closed volume polygon models.

Polygon Editing

Union, subtract, and intersect closed models using Boolean operations. Add engraved or embossed text and identification numbers to the interior or exterior surface of polygons models. Shell and offset surfaces with consistent or variable thickness. Section shelled objects to reorganize components. Use interactive relaxation and cleaning to find the optimum level of modification. Smooth, fit, trim, project, and extend boundary edges to polish the model.

NURBS Surface Creation

Create a NURBS surface in one click when advanced control is not necessary. Easily create four-sided patches for the foundation of the NURBS surface. Detect and repair patch errors with step-through dialogs. Automatically define UV parameters and fit surfaces C0 and C1. Trim surfaces with curves, features, and other surfaces.

Template-Based Workflow

Save patch layouts as templates to be reapplied to similarly shaped models. Mirror templates to cut template editing work in half. Automatically align templates on a new model.

Analysis

Measure point-to-point and on-surface distances. Perform tolerance analysis for polygonal and NURBS surfaces to the input point data. Visualize curvature and tangency conditions with whisker plots on curves.

Color Support

Edit and correct color models manually. Color-aware polygon operations allow for model modifications to update its color information. Generate texture, bump, and displacement maps.

Tools

Assign datums to any model as a digital reference for many operations. Align two models using best-fit or datum-based methods. Mirror, scale, transform and duplicate models.

Automation and Large Data Handling

Complete reverse engineering process automation from point cloud alignment to the generation of surface data. Triangulation and decimation methods can process models in excess of 100 million triangles. Record as macros, critical process information to repeat the reverse engineering process on similar objects with no additional steps. Multi-threaded operations to optimize performance using multiple processors.

User Interface

Customize toolbars, right-mouse menu, hotkeys, and color themes to optimize your reverse engineering process. Dockable toolbars and panels to organize desktop workspace. Definable macros for repeatability and automation of operations, and for reducing time. Easy to use context-sensitive help system.

Developer Tools

COM interface provides scripting access via Visual Basic, C, C++, or Java. Use the Geomagic plug-in API for full integration with your design process.

Geomagic Capture

Compatible with any 3D scanner or digitizer:

Ability to handle dense, unordered data:
Unlike other software, Geomagic Capture can handle unordered data as well as ordered data.

Ultra-fast triangulation algorithm:
Surface extremely large, ultra-dense data sets with unprecedented speed and ease. Geomagic Capture lets users work with larger data sets without sampling.

Multi-threaded operations:
Tap in to the full power of your multi-processor system and get even more speed gains from key functions such as Reduce Noise, Shade Points, and Register.

Combines manual and automated registration:
Register scans manually by selecting three points or a single point, then let Capture's AutoFit function fine-tune the alignment. Or let Capture do all the work using Global Registration to fully automate the scan registration process.

Automatic creation of polygonal models:
Just a click of Capture's Merge button and your registered scan sets are transformed into a polygon model.

Ability to align points as well as polygons:
Geomagic Capture makes it easy to process data of any type, providing users with a consistent methodology regardless of the type of data.

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Universal Input Polygon files formats:

• IGS - IGES 106
• STL - rapid prototyping
• OBJ - Alias|Wavefront
• IV - Inventor
• OOGL - GeomView
• PLY - Polygon File Format
• 3DS - 3D Studio Max
• DXF - AutoCAD
• VRML - Virtual Reality Meta Language
• LW - Lightwave

Wrap eliminates time-consuming and labor-intensive surface reconstruction work by mathematically "wrapping" a polygonal surface around point cloud data. The process is automatic, but gives the user control to fine-tune the model if necessary. Wrap creates watertight polygonal models without approximation.

Extensive point processing:
Edits large, sparse, or noisy point cloud data with ease. Uses intelligent data filtering to handle very large data and preserve sharp features. Scanning errors can be minimized with intelligent noise reduction tools.

Curvature-based hole filling:
Allows holes to be filled in both point and polygon models while maintaining surface curvature, enabling removal of large blemishes and letting you create more precise scan data.

Automatic edge sharpening:
Automatically reconstructs sharp or creased edges lost during the scanning process. Accurately reproduces prismatic models for export to your CAD/CAM/CAE systems.

Primitive identification and segmentation:
Automatically detects, fits and replaces planes and cylinders with rational representations. Allows you to concentrate on free-form shapes while preserving fit and function of your model.

Model editing:
Creates features such as tunnels and holes. Smoothes surface and boundary edges, offsets, and shell surfaces with user-defined direction and dimension. Repairs surfaces with holes and jagged edges.

Verification:
Validates model accuracy with tolerance and visual inspection tools.

Universal outputs:
Provides 3D model format translators for IGES (polygonal type 106), STL (rapid prototyping), OBJ (Alias|Wavefront), IV (Inventor), OOGL (GeomView), PLY (Polygon File Format), 3DS (3D Studio Max), DXF (AutoCAD), and VRML (Web format).

Automatic NURBS creation:
Creates a network of watertight NURBS patches automatically over standard polygonal formats. Eliminates the need to create cross-sections or patches one by one.

Automatic feature detection:
Detects feature lines on hard edges in one mouse-click. Allows users to edit, add, or delete feature lines in real time.

True template-based work flow:
Lets you re-use surface patch layouts by dragging and dropping templates from one model to the next.

Automatic edge sharpening:
Automatically reconstructs sharp or creased edges lost during the scanning process. Accurately reproduces prismatic models for export to your CAD/CAM/CAE systems.

Primitive identification and segmentation:
Automatically detects, fits and replaces planes and cylinders with rational representations. Allows you to concentrate on free-form shapes while preserving fit and function of your model.

User-defined layout:
Allows the user to define patch layout by drawing the desired patch layout on the polygonal surface to override automatically generated patches. Merges multiple patches into a single patch.

High-quality models:Preserves shape topology and adapts to local curvature. Guarantees patch continuity and output that is accurate to the input data.

Global UV parameterization:
Enables multiresolution by user-specified grid density. Guarantees global connectivity. Eliminates worry about UV lines matching between patches.

Automatic texture and displacement map generation for streaming 3D content:
Automatically generates texture, displacement, and bump maps for creating rich, streaming 3D content. Produces lightweight, detailed models.

Verification:
Verifies accuracy in real time to ensure that the model you've created adheres to the scanned data.Output to CAD/CAM/CAE software:
Exports models with accurate, watertight NURBS surfaces to any CAD/CAM/CAE system for surfacing, shelling and solids work. Formats include IGES 128 (surfaces) and 126 (curves); STEP 203 and 214; Parasolid .x_t and .x_b; Neutral, VDA, Pro/E PRT, SAT

Geomagic Benefits

Simplify your workflow.
Geomagic Studio streamlines processes for both novice and experienced modelers. Automatic features and simplified workflow reduce training time and allow users to bypass tedious, labor-intensive tasks.

Increase throughput.
Geomagic Studio is the product of choice when high throughput is a requirement. Users report productivity increases of 10:1 or more over traditional CAD software when processing complex or freeform shapes.

Enable custom manufacturing.
Custom manufacturing demands that models be created in minutes, not days, with the same accuracy and compatibility provided by traditional CAD software. Geomagic Studio is the only software that answers the triple challenge of mass customization: simplicity, throughput and manufacturability.

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.

Close the loop.
Geomagic Studio allows you to work with both physical objects and digital models, closing the loop between clay and software modeling. You can import surface layouts created by a CAD software expert as templates and apply them to points obtained from scanning the clay model created by an artist. Without the barrier between physical and digital, design changes take much less time and effort.

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.

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