Rather than just offering separate products for RP&M professionals, Materialise tends to offer integrated and total solutions as an answer to prevailing needs in the industry. As such, Materialise provides the RP&M industry with free software for fast file inspection and compression - MiniMagics - in order to accommodate RP&M professionals with a tool for easy and efficient project communication with their sales force, customers and people on the shop floor. Apart from viewing, measuring and analyzing .STL, .magics or .mgx files, MiniMagics also allows to compress .STL files up to factor 20, make annotations and generate print-outs. MiniMagics users can for example load a .STL, make annotations and measurements, and send it to another MiniMagics user for further verification. MiniMagics is now freely available for download at www.MiniMagics.com.

About Magics software
Magics is the key element of the Magics e-RP Suite, a full range of professional, market-leading software products that will streamline, automate and boost almost every step in your RP&M process. Magics offers advanced and highly automated tools for STL manipulation. It's the only software that is tuned entirely to the needs and characteristics of the Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing processes. Its powerful and efficient 3D tools enable you to deliver high quality prototypes with the shortest lead times, while providing full documentation.

About Materialise
With its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium and branches all over the world, the Materialise Group is best known for its activities in the field of rapid industrial and medical prototyping. Apart from having the largest capacity of rapid prototyping equipment in Europe, Materialise enjoys a worldwide reputation as provider of innovative software solutions. As such, Materialise has acquired the position of market leader for 3D printing and Digital CAD software in addition to being a major player in medical and dental image processing and surgery simulation. Its medical and dental products are used worldwide by famous hospitals, research institutes and clinicians. The group has several subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the USA, and employs over 500 people in its 4 divisions.

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