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News Release
Laser Design Offers
Geomagic Studio 7 Featuring Major
Advances in Scan
Registration and Large Dataset Handling |
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN, - Laser Design
announced
the availability of
Geomagic's Studio 7, which features major advances in registration
and large-dataset handling. Laser Design is an OEM reseller of Geomagic products which it offers in conjunction with its 3D laser
scanning systems.
Studio is also
used by Laser Design's own engineering services division for reverse
engineering projects.
Geomagic Studio is used by manufacturers worldwide
for automated reconstruction and redesign of physical parts and molds,
mass production of customized devices, and build-to-order manufacturing.
The latest version of
Geomagic Studio enables faster and easier registration. A new
fitting algorithm automatically determines when convergence to
a final alignment has occurred, saving time over traditional
trial-and-error methods. Further time savings are possible
with new code that analyzes scan overlap regions and creates
groups of objects that can be registered in a hierarchical
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In addition to speed and ease-of-use, greater registration
quality can be achieved through new features in Geomagic
Studio 7. Color maps graphically show alignment problems for
each scan, making it easy to see deviations. Users can
pre-select areas that they want to be automatically aligned by
the software. During manual registration, the software
performs iterations until the proper fit is achieved and
displays local-fitting statistics to ensure registration
quality.
“Registering multiple scans has always posed a technical
obstacle when digitally reconstructing a physical object,”
says Peter Scott, Geomagic’s vice president of
engineering. “New algorithms and features in Geomagic Studio 7
are breaking down this barrier, making it easier and faster
for the average user to move from points to polygons to
accurate surfaces for manufacturing.”
Better large
dataset management
Building on last year’s redesigned geometry engine,
Geomagic Studio 7 continues to push the boundaries of
large-dataset handling. Intelligent memory mapping and disk
caching allocate data too large for physical memory into
available swap space on the hard drive. This allows users to
efficiently process the huge data sets – 100 million points or
more – typically generated by the latest generation of
high-density scanners.
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Other new features in Geomagic Studio 7 include:
- a points-to-polygon wizard that guides users through the
most common steps in creating a polygon model from a point
cloud, including outlier removal, noise reduction, sampling
and triangulation.
- object averaging that composites multiple polygon models
to produce a reference master for creating new NURBS surface
models.
- the ability to create perfectly flat NURBS surfaces by
specifying planar grid regions.
- GUI enhancements, including the ability to use the mouse
scroll wheel to zoom in and out of the display area, a
background grid with text coordinates for more accurate
positioning, and a new tool for selecting only triangles
with normals that face the user.
Geomagic Studio 7 will be available in multiple languages
through Laser Design and its worldwide distributor network.
About Geomagic and Laser Design
Geomagic is based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., and has wholly
owned subsidiaries in Europe and Asia. Geomagic software is used by
manufacturers to digitally reconstruct and inspect physical parts from 3D
scan data. More than 3,000 users worldwide turn to Geomagic to
provide the technology for customizing products, automating processes, and
increasing throughput.
Since 1987, Laser Design Inc. has been the leading supplier of
ultra-precise, 3D laser scanning systems and services used for capturing
the 3D shape of objects with complex geometries and free-form surfaces.
Laser Design’s Surveyor line of automated and portable scanning systems
are ideal for 3D applications such as computer-aided verification,
discrete dimensional measurements, reverse engineering, rapid prototyping,
and manufacturing from scan data. The company’s patented laser line-probe
technology dramatically reduces scanning time by collecting data
substantially faster and more accurately than conventional metrology
technologies. The company also operates an in-house Service Bureau
offering complete 3D scanning, modeling and inspection services. For
further information, contact Marty Schuster, by phone (952-884-9648, ext.
202), fax (952-884-9653), via email to
sales@laserdesign.com
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