My friend Rachael Dalton-Taggart, Director of Marketing Communications at Geomagic Solutions (which is now part of 3D Systems), often has interesting perspectives on the engineering software market. Every once in a while, she’ll start an email thread on some intriguing or irritating issue, and include a bunch of industry editors/anaysts/consultants in the distribution list (we all […]
Alibre Software becomes Geomagic Design
Almost 2 years ago—in July, 2011—3D Systems acquired Alibre, a developer of budget 3D parametric MCAD software. It was just one of a large number of acquisitions that 3D Systems made over the last several years, and, for awhile, it appeared that Alibre was getting lost in the shuffle. Alibre has now found a new […]
Geomagic Spark: 3D scanning meets 3D CAD
It’s not easy to convert 3D scans into usable CAD models. Software that can do it is an excellent example of the iron triangle rule: Given the options of fast, good, and cheap, you can only have two. If you’re lucky. Up until now, engineers and designers have been faced with a choice between cheap (or […]
Sensable Phantom and Freeform: Sculpting for engineers
In the June issue of Design World, I wrote about Organic Shape Modeling for Engineers. In that article, I said that Geomagic’s Sensable Phantom haptic devices, when used in conjunction with their Freeform and Freeform Plus modeling software, are arguably the “gold standard for organic shape modeling.” A couple of weeks ago, I was in […]
Geomagic acquires Sensable. 3D just got even cooler.
CAD isn’t the only way to create 3D models. More and more, 3D models start out as 3D scans of real objects. Geomagic has been a leader in software to convert 3D scanned data into useable 3D models. Their software is used widely used for design, reverse engineering and inspection. Last week, Geomagic acquired Sensable’s […]
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