Today, 3D Systems launches the latest version of the reverse engineering software Geomagic® Design XTM. New optimizations in Geomagic® Design XTM 2020 significantly improve efficiency and accuracy across the application portfolio.
With this new version, you will be able to turn 3D scans into CAD models faster than ever before. A new set of surfacing features for hybrid modeling streamlines modeling workflows for molding, casting, topology optimization, and medical applications; while other new features open up new modeling pathways to tackle complex parts.
- Unique unroll/reroll function in Geomagic® Design X™ enables a new modeling workflow for complex revolved parts resulting in a 94% efficiency improvement
- Geomagic Design X’s new features for hybrid surfacing workflows accelerate productivity, improve downstream CAD re-usability
- Enhancements to the scripting editor in the unmatched Geomagic Wrap platform improve workflow efficiency
3D Systems is accelerating the transformation to digital manufacturing workflows with its extensive suite of software. By utilizing the company’s software as part of their workflow, manufacturers can deliver high quality products with digital precision and speed - from digitization and design to manufacturing, inspection and production management.
3D Systems is continually innovating to enrich its products, and today is announcing new versions of Geomagic® Design XTM and Geomagic Wrap®, which include first-to-market capabilities that streamline workflows and empower designers and engineers with digital tools to achieve greater precision. Rooted in the company’s “customer-first” approach to innovation, these enhancements to 3D Systems’ industry-leading reverse engineering solutions are specifically developed to help manufacturers maintain competitive advantage by accelerating product development cycles – achieving faster time to market.
New Geomagic Design X Features Increase Efficiency with Improved Accuracy
3D Systems' Geomagic Design X combines robust 3D scan processing and complete CAD design functionality to enable faster, more accurate and reliable reverse engineering than possible with other methods. Using the software's newest features, engineers will benefit from streamlined modeling workflows as well as expanded modeling pathways for complex, revolved parts. With the release of Geomagic Design X 2020, engineers will have access to the following unprecedented new features:
"Unroll/Reroll" Function
Revolved parts with features have historically been very cumbersome to model as CAD software is using a two-dimensional environment to create three-dimensional, rotating parts with multi-axis features. The process often requires a great deal of trial-and rework to get to a final part – often times sacrificing precision. The newest Geomagic Design X release includes an Unroll/Reroll function that enables a new modeling workflow to tackle these complex, revolved parts. Using a comprehensive suite of mesh processing tools, an engineer can unroll the mesh to automatically extract a 2D sketch, make the modifications needed, and then reroll the sketch for additional engineering. This feature reduces the need for multiple rounds of trial and re-work, dramatically improving part precision, efficiency and downstream usability.
"Selective Surfacing" Functions
Topology optimized parts and castings with precision features present unique challenges for repatriating a generative mesh, or 3D scan into CAD with intelligence. The new Selective Surfacing features in Geomagic Design X 2020 simplify the hybrid modeling process, providing easy workflows for traditionally difficult parts with both organic and prismatic features. Selective Surfacing combines very fast organic surfacing with high precision feature modeling methods. This results in accelerated productivity while providing greater downstream CAD re-usability, and maintaining control over model accuracy.
Framework for early feature and capability preview
Since its inception, 3D Systems has taken a customer-centric approach to innovation – collaborating with its customers to understand their application needs and developing solutions to address them. The company is further accelerating this approach by releasing a framework for early feature and capability preview. Through this framework, Geomagic Design X customers on-maintenance will be invited more efficiently into the R&D process – providing early access to innovations and the ability to share feedback. Additionally, this new plugin structure enables 3D Systems to quickly gather customer support requests – and in many cases more efficiently delivering support for customers' business critical needs. Shortly following the general release of Geomagic Design X 2020, on-maintenance customers will be directly invited to visit the company’s new support site, and get access to the first Add-in pack delivered through this framework.
Interested in more information about the new features? Learn more in the "What's New" flyer.
