Geomagic for SOLIDWORKS | Reverse Engineering to SOLIDWORKS Software

Reverse Engineering-to-SOLIDWORKS Software

Imagine being able to capture anything in the physical world and have a digital solid model of it in minutes.

Geomagic for SOLIDWORKS is a reverse engineering software toolset that plugs directly into your SOLIDWORKS environment, giving you advanced capabilities to make tools, point clouds, and polygons more usable in your design process. You can import data or scan directly in SOLIDWORKS and use the feature extraction wizards to extract CAD sketches, surfaces, and solids.

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The Only Complete Scan-to-SOLIDWORKS Solution

Integrated reverse-engineering software toolset that plugs directly into your SOLIDWORKS environment.

more accurate parts than using SOLIDWORKS alone

reduction in cycle time

faster reverse engineering for complex organic models

faster scan-based workflow

WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH GEOMAGIC FOR SOLIDWORKS?

Geomagic for SOLIDWORKS acts as a bridge between physical parts and your CAD-to-SOLIDWORKS environment. It enables rapid design and engineering, with a streamlined path to production. Increase the productivity of your design work and jumpstart your creativity by using reference data captured from the real world. Transport physical objects into SOLIDWORKS and design around existing parts for a perfect fit.

Geomagic for SOLIDWORKS delivers the ability to seamlessly 3D scan directly into SOLIDWORKS and create solid models using integrated, industry-proven toolsets for accurate design outcomes.

Geomagic for SOLIDWORKS supports all major scanners and portable CMMs, as well as importing standard point and polygon file formats.

After implementing Geomagic for SOLIDWORKS into our 3D scanning and design process, we have seen an approximate 30% reduction in cycle time from initial 3D scanning to having a SOLIDWORKS file ready for the CAD design process.

Eric Steen, R&D Manager, Yoshimura R&D of America, Inc., Chino, California, USA

FEATURES AVAILABLE

Extract Reference Point Command

Create reference points from mesh objects that can be used for downstream workflows such as spline and surface creation.

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Direct Scanner Control

Scan directly into Geomagic Control X, Geomagic Design X, Geomagic for SOLIDWORKS, and Geomagic Wrap.

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3D Comparison with Deviation Analysis

Quickly and easily compare a CAD object and a scanned object and get real-time information on your features to help make design decisions and maintain design intent.

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Region Grouping Tools

Intelligently group scan data elements for feature extraction directly inside SOLIDWORKS with region grouping tools for detailed mesh segmentation.

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Point Cloud Processing Tools

Use intuitive point cloud processing tools directly in SOLIDWORKS.

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Automatic Surfacing

Automatically create perfect surfaces from scan data in SOLIDWORKS with auto-surfacing scan processing tools.

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Alignment Tools

Align your scanned part to the World Coordinate System with a variety of tools including picked point alignment for multiple scan data sets.

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Scan to MCAD Solids

Scan directly into SOLIDWORKS and create feature-based solid parts with Geomagic for SOLIDWORKS.

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Capabilities	Standard	Professional	Premium	Ultimate
Cloud Collaboration
Cross-Discipline Collaboration Collaborate in real time using configurable dashboards, social communities, Kanban-style task management, activity streams, persistent chat, and video calls. Easily search, visualize, explore, and mark up SOLIDWORKS and other files directly in your browser, from any device.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Share and Markup Invite anyone, inside or outside your organization, to view, share, and mark up your 3D designs in the cloud, directly within SOLIDWORKS. Getting real-time feedback and iterating on your work is as easy as sharing a link from within SOLIDWORKS, with no download required.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Project and Resource Management Shorten time to market with a collaborative project planning, monitoring, and execution solution, connecting your design data with all project members, tasks, deliverables, and communications.				✔
Lean Teamwork Put lean principles into action to address operational waste, variability, and meeting efficiency with a new, visual way to plan, facilitate, and complete objectives.				✔
Cloud Data Management
Store and Revise Utilize secure cloud storage that’s purpose-built with CAD relationships and collaboration in mind. Save your data to the cloud right from SOLIDWORKS. Lock designs to ensure no one overwrites your work, easily manage revisions, and create detailed markups with redline, measurements, and annotations.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Data and Lifecycle Management Manage the life cycle of any type of content, such as CAD files, simulation models, and documentation, across disciplines and CAD solutions. Assign tasks, track issues, communicate and coordinate design changes, manage reviews and approvals, and capture decisions.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Administration Monitor license usage, manage members, and assign and remove licenses from a single administrative dashboard, lowering administrative overhead. Easily stay up-to-date and benefit from the latest enhancements.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Release Management Ensure consistent product quality by providing a shared product definition, maximizing data reuse, reducing the complexity of product structure, and aligning with corporate standards.				✔
Product Structure Management Reduce development time with the ability to create, modify, and explore multi-CAD product structures in a single context, reducing design iterations by making the review of designs and proposed changes universally accessible to stakeholders.				✔
Cloud 3D Design and Modeling
Parametric Modeling Create, review, and evaluate 3D models through an intuitive parametric modeling solution that interacts seamlessly with the 3D CAD solution.	✔	✔	✔	✔
2D Drawings and 3D Manufacturing Documentation Define, organize, and communicate key manufacturing information such as dimensions, tolerances, and notes all from a web browser with a combined 2D drawing and model-based solution.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Subdivision/Freeform Modeling Create organic shapes quickly and easily with an intuitive modeling solution that interacts seamlessly with the 3D CAD solution.		✔	✔	✔
Sheet Metal Design Build components, assemblies, and enclosures using associative parametric sheet metal design capabilities				✔
Mold Design Provide specialized, automated, easy-to-use capabilities for the design of mold cores, cavities, and inserts.				✔
Weldments Design Create structure members; add plates, gussets, and end caps; and generate a manufacturing cut list with associative, feature based frame design capabilities				✔
3D Design and Modeling
Part and Assembly Modeling Handle all aspects of your part and assembly modeling and transform ideas and concepts into virtual 3D models	✔	✔	✔	✔
Specialized Design Tools Speed up the design of sheet metal, plastic and cast parts, weldments, molds, tools, and dies.	✔	✔	✔	✔
2D Drawings and 3D Manufacturing Documentation Create production-ready 2D drawings or go drawingless and use intelligent, automated 3D dimensioning and tolerancing capabilities.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Productivity Tools Easily analyze, compare, check and report on your designs	✔	✔	✔	✔
Industry 3D Component Catalog Access over 50 million components from manufacturers worldwide through our online catalog.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Interference Check Before going into production, verify in 2D and 3D that your parts and assemblies will fit, assemble and operate correctly	✔	✔	✔	✔
Design Reuse & Automation Simplify the reuse of existing design data with search, automation and configuration tools that help you speed up the creation of new designs	✔	✔	✔	✔
Manufacturability Checks Review your designs for Draft, Undercut, Thickness and Hole Alignments early in the development process to ensure manufacturability.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Advanced CAD File Import/Export Convert incoming CAD data into SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD format and export SOLIDWORKS data to other CAD applications using 30+ translators	✔	✔	✔	✔
Linked CAD Models Use models saved in other CAD formats directly inside SOLIDWORKS assemblies, parts, and drawings while maintaining associativity with the original CAD model.	✔	✔	✔	✔
AR/VR Exporter Export CAD data for AR, VR, and web viewing experiences while retaining geometry, appearance, motion studies, display states, and more	✔	✔	✔	✔
ECAD/MCAD Collaboration Share, compare, update, and track electrical design data so users can quickly resolve electrical-mechanical integration and collaboration issues.	✔	✔	✔	✔
Intelligent CAD Libraries Easily find, customize, and share hundreds of thousands of prebuilt industry-standard fasteners that configure on the fly and assemble automatically in your design.		✔	✔	✔
CAD Standards Checking (Design Checker) Establish design standards and check drawings (or models) against them to create uniform designs and documentation.		✔	✔	✔
Automated Tolerance Stackup Analysis (TolAnalyst™) Automatically check the effects of tolerances on parts and assemblies to ensure consistent fit of components and verify tolerancing schemes before manufacturing your designs		✔	✔	✔
Design for Cost (SOLIDWORKS Costing) Continuously check your designs against cost targets with automatic cost estimation tools fully integrated within the 3D CAD solution		✔	✔	✔
Reverse Engineering (ScanTo3D) Recreate designs with the ability to import, edit, evaluate and create solid geometry from scanned point-cloud and mesh data		✔	✔	✔
Advanced Surface Flattening Flatten complex, nondevelopable surfaces typically encountered in products made from textiles, like clothing, or sheet metal, like metal stampings			✔	✔
Pipe and Tube Routing Simplify the design and documentation of piping and tubing for a wide range of systems and applications, including machinery, skid systems, and process plant piping.			✔	✔
Electrical Cable and Wiring Harness Routing Quickly add cables, wires, and harnesses to your design. Create flattened drawing representations of your 3D cables and harnesses with wire lists, connection information, and bills of materials			✔	✔
Rectangular and Other Section Routing Route rectangular and round sections that include ducting, cable trays, conveyors, material handling chutes, and other systems.			✔	✔
Cloud Immersive Experiences
Training and User Guides Create stunning digital content including interactive product presentations and technical illustrations to showcase product values, enable partners, guide use, and win customers.				✔
Virtual Experiences Engage customers with 3D experiences from virtual reality to the web by leveraging virtual twins.				✔
Rendering Easily create and share photorealistic renderings of your product to promote a design and deliver stunning content for customer engagements.				✔
Rendering
Basic Animation and Visualization Move assemblies by dragging components or using motors, create CAD videos, and generate basic CAD renderings and 3D walk-throughs.	✔	✔	✔	✔
GPU Rendering Utilize the full power of your hardware with GPU rendering capabilities.		✔	✔	✔
Artificial Intelligence Denoiser Leverage artificial intelligence to eliminate noise from your renders with a single checkbox, dramatically boosting your render speed.		✔	✔	✔
Full Animation Suite Tell a more compelling story with your CAD data by using the full Animation suite. Easily animate exploded views, appearance properties, cameras, and much more to create photo-quality videos to showcase even the most complex projects.		✔	✔	✔
Immersive Virtual Reality Create immersive virtual reality experiences with 360-degree cameras and interactive output.		✔	✔	✔
Advanced Lighting Techniques for Sun and Sky Simulate the lighting at a specific location and time, and create sun study animations.		✔	✔	✔
Physics Simulation Create more realistic and immersive content with rigid-body and vehicle-driving physics simulations.		✔	✔	✔
Simulation
Linear Static Analysis for Parts and Assemblies Calculate the stresses and deformations of geometry by using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) methods and running linear stress analysis to determine the response of parts and assemblies.			✔	✔
Motion Analysis Realistically visualize your product moving throughout its operational cycle, measure the forces and loads on your design, and use the data to correctly size motors and ensure product performance, quality, and safety.			✔	✔
Structural Analysis for Cloud Design Explore the impact of structural and thermal loads on your parts and assemblies by using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and running linear stress analysis.				✔
Motion Analysis for Cloud Design Understand the impact of assembly motion on your design with motion simulation in the cloud. Study the kinematics and dynamic behavior of your designs by checking the range of motion, component interference, and performance.				✔
Training and Support
Support Get up to speed fast using online training content, a vibrant community, and support from IMETECH	✔	✔	✔	✔
Learning Experiences Improve your skills with a library of over 200 learning modules comprising thousands of on-demand lessons.				✔