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Geomagic Design X

The Ultimate  3D Scan-to-CAD Solution

Geomagic® Design X™ is the most complete reverse engineering software on the market. It mixes history-based CAD with 3D scan data processing so that you can make solid models that can be edited and are compatible with your current CAD software.

Get accurate and efficient 3D scanning with Geomagic Design X - the all-in-one solution for entry-level reverse engineering and inspection workflows. Try Geomagic Design X today and take your scanning game to the next level! Get your license from Rapid 3D, the Geomagic authorised agents for Geomagic in sub-Saharan Africa.

Why Geomagic Design X

  • Speed: Improve how you make your products, get them to market faster, and make them last longer.
  • Flexibility: Work with any CAD software without any problems and make the right model for each job with full tool sets for solids, surfaces, and meshes.
  • Reliability: The only programme that combines scan processing, CAD, and real-time feedback to give you highly reliable results for your complex designs.
  • Simplicity: It works the same way as your CAD software, so you’ll figure out how to use it right away.

Broaden Your Design Capabilities

Instead of starting with a blank screen, start with real-world facts. Geomagic® Design X™ is the easiest way to make editable, feature-based CAD models from a 3D scanner and add them to your current engineering design workflow.

Accelerate Time to Market

Shorten the time between having an idea for a product and having a finished design. Scan prototypes, existing parts, tooling or related items, and create designs in a fraction of the time it would take to manually measure and create CAD models from scratch.

Enhance Your CAD Environment

You can do more and work faster if you add 3D scanning to your normal design process. Geomagic® Design X™ works well with the rest of your design software because it can export directly to SolidWorks®, Siemens NX®, SolidEdge®, Autodesk Inventor®, PTC Creo®, and Pro/ENGINEER®.

Leverage Existing Assets

One idea often leads to another. Scan into your CAD system easily. Take note of it. Reuse it. Make it better. You can easily turn your old parts into current CAD data, as well as make drawings and ideas for production.

Do the Impossible

Make things that can’t be made without reverse engineering, like unique parts that have to fit the human body perfectly. Make parts that fit perfectly with goods that are already on the market. Make complicated shapes that can’t be measured in any other way.

Reduce Costs

Save a lot of money and time by modelling things as they are and as they were meant to be. Change a CAD model you already have to make it fit your 3D scans. Reduce the cost of tool iterations by correcting your CAD with real part shape and getting rid of part springback problems. Reduce expensive mistakes caused by parts that don’t fit together well.

Overview of Geomagic Design X

The Fastest Path from 3D Scans to Your CAD Software

Works Seamlessly with Your Existing CAD

Geomagic® Design X™ works directly with SOLIDWORKS®, Siemens NX®, Solid Edge, Autodesk Inventor®, and PTC Creo®, which are all famous CAD programmes. Design X™ moves full models, including feature trees, using its own LiveTransfer™ technology. This lets you quickly make solid and surface models from 3D scans.

Powerful and Flexible

Geomagic® Design X™ was made to turn 3D scan data into high-quality feature-based CAD models. It does things that no other programme can do. It can automatically and manually extract solid models, fit exact surfaces to organic 3D scans, edit meshes, and process point clouds. Now, you can scan almost anything and create manufacturing-ready designs

Heavy-Duty Capabilities for Demanding Projects

The vast set of tools in Geomagic® Design X™ includes CAD tools, industry-leading scan processing tools, and all the firepower you need to take on the toughest projects. It can handle billions of scan points and has a lot of ways to fix data problems, so you can skip cleaning up scans and start making CAD models right away.

Works Like Your CAD Software

Geomagic® Design X™ can be used right away if you know how to use CAD. It has a completely refreshed user interface and workflow tools that make it easier than ever to make as-designed and as-built 3D CAD and model data quickly and correctly.

Geomagic® Design X™ Features

  • Direct 3D scanner control tools for the widest range of the most popular devices
  • Supports import of over 60 file formats including polygons, point clouds and CAD
  • Expertly handles massive mesh and point cloud data alignment, processing and refining, mesh construction
  • Easy-to-use mesh repair tools deliver rapid hole filling, smoothing, optimizing, re-wrapping and polishing tools such as Smart Brush
  • Automatic, feature-based solid and surface extraction direct from 3D scans
  • Rapidly creates solids or surfaces like you would in CAD
  • Automated Accuracy Analyzer™ tools compare and validate surfaces, solids and sketches against original scan data
  • Live Transfer™ supports the output of data to the industry’s leading CAD systems
  • Industry-leading “Exact” surface creation converts organic shapes to precise CAD models
  • Supports comprehensive export of neutral CAD or polygon files

Geomagic Design X Applications

Additive manufacturing

Use the original design ideas for the parts that have been optimised topologically and make results based on features that can be edited and used in CAD.

Spare Parts

Use data from 3D scans to make spare parts and replacement parts for expensive heavy equipment in case of an accident and to keep them running well.

Casting

With 3D scanning and scan-based design, you can quickly make production-ready 3D models for broken castings and make copies of key parts.

Supply chain optimisation

Make a digital database for key parts that get a lot of wear and tear or that break often to cut down on response time and bring your knowledge and manufacturing skills together.

Stamping Dies

3D scan stamping dies that have been updated from the original CAD plans and changed after they were made to show as-built conditions.

Reverse Engineering

Reverse engineering can be used to mix off-the-shelf parts and assemblies with custom-designed parts to speed up the time it takes to get a product to market.

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