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15 February 2005

Company News

Raindrop Geomagic Receives Phase II NSF Grant to Create Higher-Quality Surfaces from Scan Data

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Raindrop Geomagic an SBIR Phase II grant to extend the company's research into advanced techniques for creating surface models from point clouds.

The latest grant builds on Raindrop Geomagic's successful work last year under a Phase I grant to research functional decomposition-a method for creating high-quality CAD surfaces from polygonal meshes.

Under Phase II research, surfaces created from scan data will be structured as a standard CAD model, which will reduce design time for automotive, aerospace and consumer product industries. The research is expected to result in trimmed analytic and NURBS surfaces that retain design intent. Trimming lines will be generated automatically along connecting features, such as fillets or swept surfaces. Optimized patch layout will ensure a higher degree of smoothness, and surface fitting will be controlled automatically by tolerances.

The latest NSF grant is the second Phase II SBIR award that Raindrop Geomagic has received. Both grants center on innovative research in capturing a physical object and transforming it into an accurate digital model ready for redesign, manufacturing and inspection.

 

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