Geomagic and Creaform to Offer Educational Discounts

By DE Editors

Geomagic (Research Triangle Park, NC) and Creaform (Levis, QUE, Canada)jointly announced an educational discount program that makes theirtechnologies available to allow design and engineering students througha discounted educational institution pricing structure.

"We see this as an investment in the future," Andrew Stein, vicepresident of product management and marketing of Geomagic in astatement to the press.

The educational discount program makes available a minimum of 150hardware and software kits at an 80 percent discount to qualifiededucation institutions. The kits contain a Creaform Handyscan 3Dscanner bundled with Geomagic digital shape sampling and processing(DSSP) software. (For more on the Handyscan, see "Scan by Hand," DEOctober 2006.)

According to he companies, the University of Michigan is using Geomagicand Creaform's Handyscan 3D hardware already in its 3D Lab, where ithas scanned such diverse objects as dinosaur bones and brake calipers.Students at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California,and at Ecole Centrale, Nantes, France, have also recently begun tobenefit from the program, say the companies.
 
The Geomagic and Creaform educational program is open to institutionsworldwide. Kits can be ordered directly from the Educational ProgramManager at Creaform.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.