Hexagon has completed the acquisition of Geomagic software business from 3D Systems Corporation, gaining market-leading technology that improves productivity for people that are acquiring, manipulating and reverse engineering 3D measurement data for use throughout the product lifecycle and computer-aided design (CAD) workflows. 

Integrated into its Manufacturing Intelligence division, the Geomagic software solutions will be supported and sold to the discrete manufacturing market – complementing portfolios in Hexagon’s other markets such as mining and construction. The suite comprises software for measurement and quality control, mesh and surface model creation, and parametric scan-to-CAD workflows for highly efficient reverse engineering. 

Josh Weiss, President at Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division commented: “We are delighted that Geomagic has joined Hexagon. The software and the team are pioneers in the creation of powerful and intuitive scan-based reverse engineering, inspection and design tools. The suite is imperative to manufacturing industry success, and provides the experience that their global customers, partners and hardware OEMs need.  

“We will continue to support all hardware and software partnerships for Geomagic customers. We will invest in developing and supporting this software with our considerable expertise and IP to offer our portable metrology device users greater productivity and new capabilities”  

A key aspect of the Geomagic suite is that it works with any 3D scanner or portable CMM. The software supports reverse engineering and metrology workflows with 3D scanning devices from a broad section of optical, laser and LiDAR scanning devices from any vendor, and Hexagon will continue to offer all global customers continued access to the full software portfolio and support native CAD and PMI data import from Dassault CATIA, PTC Creo, Autodesk Inventor, Siemens NX, and Dassault SOLIDWORKS.  

Geomagic Design X is a comprehensive and accurate 3D scan-to-CAD solution for reverse engineering and digital documentation of physical parts. Users can reverse engineer data from any scanner, with intuitive guided workflows that provide accurate conversion and recreation of parametric CAD. Design X features powerful automated mesh-to-surface functionality where needed – for example in mould and die applications – and complements all CAD software workflows perfectly.   

“3D scanning allows us to do things we couldn’t do before because of the complexity of parts. With Geomagic Design X we can create models of parts that were previously difficult to model. Once we got the training, we could model much faster than before.” Fabien Brunet, Tool Design Technician, Schneider Electric. 

Geomagic Control X brings the power of 3D scan-based inspection to more people in more places with industry-leading 3D metrology software that makes it easy to interpret scan data and report results. With strong workflow automation capabilities, Control X provides validated accuracy with NIST, PBT and NPL standards organizations, which Hexagon plans to build upon by integrating its exceptional Hexagon GD&T libraries.  

“Doing reports can be very painful, so I looked through the tools Geomagic Control X had to offer and discovered the reporting functionality. It reduced the time I spend on reporting by around 70%. Before I needed about eight hours to make the report, and with Geomagic Control X it takes just three.” Hazim Abueideh, Quality Control Analyst, air up GmbH. 

For more information, visit https://hexagon.com/company/divisions/manufacturing-intelligence/geomagic.