Geomagic Awarded a Phase IIB Grant from National Science Foundation

By DE Editors

Geomagic has just been awarded (Research Triangle Park, NC) a Phase IIB grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to extend research into technologies that will extend product design and development. Following the successful Phase I and Phase II projects, which were aimed at giving designers the ability to easily create accurate digital representations of scanned physical parts, the Phase IIB grant will address mechanical design applications.

Customer requirements for automation, computational efficiency, and high-quality surfacing will be focused on with the grant. The core technology of Geomagic’s recently introduced Fashion module will also be extended with this research. The Fashion module captures the original design intent of a scanned physical object and translates it into a CAD-ready surface model, which speeds the iterations of design, engineering, manufacturing and maintenance within the product lifecycle.

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