Geomagic Studio 10 Now Shipping

(Geomagic: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) -- Geomagic is now shipping Geomagic Studio 10, the latest version of its digital reconstruction software, and offering a free 90-day trial through it’s web site, www.geomagic.com.

Geomagic Studio 10 features an optional surfacing module called Geomagic Fashion that automatically extracts design intent from scanned physical objects. It also includes an enhanced graphical user interface, streamlined feature framework, multisensor metrology support, and a customizable architecture.

“Geomagic Fashion makes it easy to go quickly from scanning to CAD-ready surfaces,” says Mark Hankins, project engineer for Winfield Consumer Products, the maker of Husky Liners protective products for cars and trucks. “It should further speed our product-development cycle, which was already improved dramatically six months ago when we implemented Geomagic Studio 9.”

“The ’wow factor’ is Fashion’s sheer speed in identifying planes, radiuses, and free-form shapes directly from scan data,” says Greg Groth, reverse-engineering manager for Advanced Design Concepts (ADC), which has provided product-development services for companies such as Harley-Davidson, Briggs & Stratton, and Fiskars. “I’m amazed by how fast this software enables you to build surfaces.”

The new Geomagic Fashion module is the perfect complement to Geomagic Shape, the module used worldwide to digitally reconstruct exact digital models of physical parts. Geomagic Shape provides the fastest, easiest way to digitally reconstruct a physical part as it exists, generating a watertight NURBS model. Geomagic Fashion automatically recreates the original surface aesthetics that are often lost in the manufactured or scanned object.

Surface models from Geomagic Fashion are output in CAD-ready layouts for smaller IGES/STEP files, faster CNC code generation, and improved machining. Analytic surfaces and profile curves from Geomagic Fashion can be further manipulated in CAD, reducing the amount of time required to create a parametric CAD model.

In addition to the Geomagic Fashion module, Geomagic Studio 10 includes the following new features:

• An enhanced GUI with user-configurable display themes, sliders, and collapsible menus for a cleaner, less cluttered workspace.
• A streamlined feature framework with more powerful tools to create, review, modify, or leverage features throughout the entire digital reconstruction workflow.
• Multisensor metrology support for users who wish to take advantage of the combined strengths of 3-D scanners and hard probes. Geomagic Studio 10 enables users to quickly capture a full 3-D scan of an object and then use a hard probe to create features such as cylinders, cones, and spheres, and measure out-of-sight areas for precise shape capture.
• An agile architecture that enables customization for specific applications and tasks.
• New extension editing capabilities that speed and improve surface generation by enabling users to make global adjustments such as resizing, repositioning, and smoothing extension lines.
• Advanced hybrid-modeling capabilities that allow users to output idealized profile curves and extract both swept (extruded, revolved) and analytic (cylinders, spheres, planes, cones) surfaces from scan data, and then export into a CAD system to build a parametric model.
• A 64-bit edition that allows users to take advantage of the expanded memory capacity of 64-bit computer systems to process huge datasets generated by the newest generation of noncontact 3-D scanners.

Geomagic Studio 10 can be purchased with and without Geomagic Fashion. The software ships with both 32- and 64-bit editions on the CD, and supports English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese. Special introductory pricing is available through June 2008 for existing customers who wish to upgrade, as well as for new buyers. Visit www.geomagic.com for more information, a free 90-day trial, and a list of international offices and resellers.

About Geomagic

Geomagic simplifies digital shape sampling and processing (DSSP) for more than 5,000 professionals in industries such as automotive, aerospace, medical devices, and consumer products. The company’s products and services are used to enable mass customization with the same efficiency and cost as mass production, improve dental care with individually designed devices, speed time-to-market for consumer products, automate inspection for better quality in dramatically less time, increase safety for NASA shuttle missions, and optimize design for everything from racing cars to blimps. Geomagic has headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, subsidiaries in Europe and Asia, and distributors worldwide.

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