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Rapidform Presentation at SME RAPID 2010

By Tom Charron • May 14th, 2010 • Category: Application Stories, Feature Highlights, Industry News
SME RAPID 2010


Wednesday May 19th, 1:30pm-4:45pm

CAD in Context, How Physical Parts Factor-In to Your Digital PLM World

Do you have physical parts laying around with no CAD? Have you invested substantial amounts of money in PLM or PDM systems, only to have a large portion…

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Reverse Engineering Workshop at SME RAPID 2010

By Tom Charron • May 14th, 2010 • Category: Industry News
SME RAPID 2010

Michael Mock will be presenting at a Reverse Engineering Workshop, sponsered by SME at the 2010 RAPID conference.

Monday May 17th, 8:30am-12:00PM

See how Reverse Engineering can be used, and get up to speed on the latest technology in the industry!

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Job Opportunity: Rapidform Regional Sales Manager, Southeast US

By Tom Charron • May 6th, 2010 • Category: Success Blog

In addition to the AE job opening we just posted, we’re also looking for a talented regional sales manager for the Southeast US:

Southeast Regional Sales Manager, Rapidform 3D Scanning Software

The Regional Sales Manager plays a key role in the sales of Rapidform

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Job Opportunity: Rapidform Applications Engineer

By Tom Charron • May 6th, 2010 • Category: Success Blog

We’ve just posted a new opportunity for anyone with experience in 3D scanning and/or CAD/CAM in the Denver area:


Rapidform Applications Engineer

The Applications Engineer plays a key role in the support and sales of Rapidform 3D Scanning Software to customers throughout North

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How to send scaled section profiles from XOV2 into CAD

By Tom Charron • May 2nd, 2010 • Category: Tech Tips, XOV

One of the great features of XOV is that you can cut cross sections through your model to see the deviation between your nominal model and the scanned part. Once you take a cross section, you can use XOV’s 2D GD&T tools to take measurements…

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New Success Story in Europe: Designing better fans with Rapidform XOR

By Tom Charron • Feb 28th, 2010 • Category: Application Stories, Uncategorized

Today we heard about a great use case for reverse engineering from some Rapidform XOR users in Germany:

Since 1981 Rosenberg Ventilatoren GmbH (http://www.rosenberg-gmbh.com), located in Künzelsau-Gaisbach, has developed into an outstanding centre of the air movement and air handling industry by

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ICF publishing tips (Creating a web page with an embedded 3D model)

By Tom Charron • Jun 1st, 2009 • Category: Tech Tips

Rapidform XOS, XOR and XOV can create web pages with your 3D scan, CAD model or inspection result embedded as rotatable 3D models. They do this by creating an ICF (INUS Compression Format) file and an associated html file, which you can then place on…

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Tool entity extension in XOR’s Split Face command

By Tom Charron • May 26th, 2009 • Category: Tech Tips
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On to the third installment of our tech tips on the Split Face command.  Did you know that XOR will automatically extend a surface if it’s too short to split another face? If you’re splitting a face by intersecting another surface, it will extend…

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Splitting faces by projecting curves

By Tom Charron • May 18th, 2009 • Category: Tech Tips
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In our second installment on the Split Face command, I’d like to point out a difference between projecting 2D sketches and 3D sketches in XOR.

Using Split Face (found under Insert>Modeling Feature>Split Face), you can project a curve onto a face (surface or solid)…

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Creating parting lines on CAD solids or NURBS surface models

By Tom Charron • May 11th, 2009 • Category: Tech Tips
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Rapidform XOR has a pretty cool command called Split Face. It can be used for several different purposes, and one of them is to generate parting lines after you’ve created a CAD model from scan data.

Using Split Face to create parting lines

1) Go…

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