CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
29 January 2013
Product News
Geomagic Releases Geomagic Spark, a New Approach to Designing from Scan Data
Geomagic® announced the release of its new 3D scan and CAD design software, Geomagic® Spark™. This new product is the only 3D software that combines a live 3D scanning interface, built on Geomagic’s robust 3D point and mesh editing platform, with a comprehensive direct modeling package, built on the innovative SpaceClaim® platform. In addition, Geomagic Spark includes powerful assembly modeling and 2D drawing capabilities. The result is an intuitive and powerful product that will allow CAD experts and CAD novices alike to create models for conceptualization, prototyping, manufacturing or documentation – easily and in one complete package.
With a powerful set of tools, Geomagic Spark’s direct modeling CAD environment relies on a gesture-based user interface, a simple push/pull toolset, and a familiar ribbon-based GUI. Now, users can skillfully create accurate, manufacturable solid models and assemblies using scan and CAD data in the same application within minutes, even from partial scan data. With the power of Geomagic Spark, companies in the automotive, electronics, industrial design, consumer goods, tooling and aerospace industries can accelerate product development, facilitate better communication between teams, simplify design processes, and increase reliability in scan-to-CAD operations.
“Geomagic Spark delivers a truly transformative integration of scanning and design – for every level of user,” said Ping Fu, founder and CEO, Geomagic. “Combining Geomagic’s scanning expertise with an innovative direct modeler allows designers and engineers to realize their creative inspiration, from basic reality capture applications, such as reverse engineering, to product design and modification. Geomagic Spark is powerful, affordable and capable of finishing a product quickly.”
Geomagic Spark is built on the SpaceClaim API, allowing Geomagic’s advanced scanning technology to be seamlessly integrated with the direct modeling capabilities of SpaceClaim. To model, users easily move between scanning and editing tools, and the platform also enables the integration of many third-party add-ins built for the SpaceClaim software, including CAD translators, CAE, CAM, rendering and more.
"I was impressed how quickly I was able to start using Geomagic Spark right after installation," said David O'Connor, manager of technical services at ShapeGrabber, a manufacturer of 3D laser scanning devices. "The speed and ease Spark brings to the modeling process opens up whole new possibilities in the world of digitizing real-world objects."
Workflow, Features and Benefits
Geomagic Spark’s integrated package begins with a live scanning interface, which currently supports Faro®, Hexagon® and Creaform® scanners, and also includes the ability to load existing scan data from other scanners. Designers can choose from a wide range of automated editing tools used to convert and edit data into a polygon mesh: sampling, noise reduction, wrap, mesh simplification and more. Within seconds, designers can transfer the mesh into the direct modeling CAD environment. Using intuitive solid modeling tools – like one-button extraction of curves, surfaces and solids – simplifies the process of creating solid geometry from the mesh. Users can then quickly perform a mesh-to-solid comparison and prepare interactive 2D technical drawings, annotations, dimensions and more.
Geomagic Spark natively allows users to import and export a wide range of MCAD-specific and industry-neutral (e.g., PDF and STEP) file formats, and separate data exchange modules are available for additional supported formats (e.g., CATIA and JT). This powerful combination of 3D data processing and CAD functionality ignites process efficiency in reverse engineering, production-focused manufacturing, prototyping, concept modeling, rendering and documentation. With its wide range of supported file formats, Geomagic Spark is especially well positioned to become an indispensable tool in service bureau production environments.
“At CCAT, we are very excited about the new Geomagic Spark,” said Tom Scotton of the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, a non-profit center of excellence in advanced technology. “This one product addresses the need for intuitive and uncomplicated conversion of point cloud data scans into true feature-based solid models that include easily created GD&T and PMI data definitions.”
Geomagic Spark is available in English, German, Chinese (simple and traditional), Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Czech.
To see more information, or to receive a free trial of Geomagic Spark or other exciting new Geomagic 2013 products, please visit Geomagic athttp://geomagic.com/en/products/spark/overview.
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