| 3D3 Solutions
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Makes FlexScan3D, a relatively low-cost program that allows digitizing objects using your own digital SLR camera and TV projector. |
| 3D-SHAPE GmbH (Germany)
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SLIM3D makes it possible to create a model from a set of different single 3D views. Registration, mesh reconstruction and visualization processing steps can also be run almost entirely automatically via Visual Basic® Script. |
| Alias Wavefront
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Spider, is a module for the Studio Tools suite for editing, translating and operating on point cloud data in a variety of formats. |
| Anatomics Pty. Ltd. |
BioBuild converts volumetric imaging data to rapid prototyping file formats. While designed for medical bio-modeling, it can also be used for reverse engineering applications. |
| C4W (France) |
3D Shop ModelFix is composed of 3D Shop ModelDesign plus 3 plug-ins applications: 3D Doctor which repairs shells and B-rep faces; 3D STL which allows the creation of airtight mesh from approximate geometry, and 3D ReBuilder which allows reverse engineering from clouds of points and repair of mesh files. |
| DAVID-Laserscanner Germany) |
Free-ware for developing a very low-cost system for contact-free scanning of 3d objects. The only hardware requirements are a commercial hand-held laser and a standard TV camera. Compatible with most MS-Windows compatible web cameras and includes automatic calibration, data smoothing and interpolation, texture support and other features. |
| Creative Dezign Concepts
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Makes DezignWorks, reverse engineering SW for SolidWorks. Automatically creates 2D and 3D features and provides interactive editing of complex curves. |
| Delcam PLC (UK)
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CopyCAD - Creates complex CAD models from digitised data. |
| E.G.S. s.r.l. (Enhanced Geometry Solutions) (Italy)
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Offers Leios Studio, reverse modeling program for reconstruction of Nurbs-based geometric models from point clouds; Leios Components, a set of point cloud and triangle mesh processing C++ libraries, and Leios Mesh, a low-cost application for 3D reverse engineering and surface reconstruction. |
| Floating Point Solutions |
Provides Meshworks for generating meshes from point clouds, and manipulating and editing the resultant files, and PointCloud for reverse engineering applications. |
| Geomagic, Inc. |
Geomagic enables the creation of STL files and 3D models from point clouds of data from any source.
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| Geometry Systems Inc. |
Offers GSI Studio and GSI Mesh Studio for entertainment and engineering applications. The SW can directly control Minolta or Roland digitizers and has tools for mesh alignment, merging, smoothing, repair and other operations. Also provides GSI Crystal Studio for 2D and 3D laser sub-surface engraving applications, and GSI Viewer Studio for general 3D model viewing and display. |
| GHOST 3D |
Provides Scribe-iT for processing CMM touch probe data. Permits data capture and measurement, editing and manipulation. Supports FaroArm and Microscribe CMMs and applications such as 3ds max, Design, Maya, Autodesk VIZ, 3D Studio. |
| InnovMetric Software Inc. (Canada) |
PolyWorks/Modeler 5.0 3D modeling software for milling, rapid prototyping, reverse engineering, and finite-element analysis applications. |
| INUS Technology, Inc. (Korea) |
RapidForm2004 covers point cloud and polygon mesh processing, RP operations, freeform NURBS surfacing, CAD solid creation, and inspection. Also includes API for custom applications. rapidformXO is a next generation 3D scanning software that offers high accuracy and large data handling (200 million+ points) as well as very fast processing times. |
| Materialise |
Magics RP and RT suite can be used for reverse engineering applications. |
| Robert McNeel & Associates |
Starting with a sketch, drawing, physical model, or an idea, Rhino provides tools to model designs for rendering, animation, drafting, engineering, analysis, and manufacturing. It creates, edits, analyzes, and translates NURBS curves, surfaces, and solids in Windows. The application also supports polygon meshes and point clouds. |
| Paraform Software |
Paraform allows users to build parameterized surfaces from a wide variety of unstructured, complex, organic 3D polygonal objects. It can be used to create freeform surfaces from STL data. The company's Points2Polys is a freeware point cloud to polygon mesh converter operating under Windows NT and is intended for use on unstructured, raw point data of medium size (about 500K points). Imports industry standard file formats and handles extremely large or complex source geometry. |
| Rapidform, Inc. |
Produces RapidForm XO VerifierTM for comparing scan and CAD data, and RapidForm XOR RedesignTM for generating parametric CAD models from scan point clouds. |
| ReverseEngineering.com |
Formerly HiRes, Inc. Provides HIPP™ (HighRES Integrated Point Processor), a stand alone application providing control over scanned 3D point clouds. HIPP can handle millions of points and directly processes raw digitized data from CMMs, PCMMs, laser trackers, laser scanners and optical scanners. Also offers plug-in software for such CAD programs as Unigraphics, Solid Edge, Pro/E, Solidworks and others for directly interfacing CMM's and other digitizers. |
| Simpleware Ltd. (UK) |
ScanFETM provides a fully automated and robust conversion of 3D data such as CT, MRI and Ultrasound into rapid prototyped and finite element models. ScanFETM generates volumetric meshes which can be exported as STL and/or finite element files. Applications range from medical engineering to manufacturing and reverse engineering. |
| Solid Modeling Solutions (SMS) |
Solid Modeling Solutions (SMS) Offers PolyMLib for application developers, a software library for processing meshes resulting from 3D scanning processes. PolyMLib provides geometric processing methods to repair, optimize, review, and edit triangle mesh models. The company also supplies a wide variety of other kernel-level software products.
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| Technodigit (France) |
Provides 3DReshaper® software for converting 3D point cloud files to 3D meshes. An evaluation version can be downloaded free. |
| think3, Inc. (Italy) |
Offers Thinkreshape, a reverse engineering suite that permits capturing a mathematical model of a physical object. |
| Virtual Grid |
VRMesh Studio is designed for reverse engineering and mesh modeling and includes a set of tools for smoothing, decimating, merging, and marking point clouds. VRMesh Reverse provides reverse engineering workflow to wrap point cloud data into a meshed model. VRMesh Design is used for STL repair and conceptual design. It provides tools to create original models or modify scan data for rapid prototyping. |
| VirtualGeo s.r.l. (Italy) |
Provides CloudCUBE 2009 modular software for managing point clouds in AutoCAD which have been acquired by laser scanners. Particularly intended for civil engineering, architecture, archaeology, environmental and land management uses, it can manage more than 500 million points in a single file. |
| VX Corporation |
Provides modularized software for mechanical design, mold design, CAM/CNC and reverse engineering. Modules include: VX Mechanical, VX Modeler, VX Designer, VX Mold & Die and VX Machinist. All modules also include file translation capabilities. |
