Rapidform Inc. is currently seeking a Software Support & Sales Specialist in its Sunnyvale, CA office. The Software Support & Sales Specialist will play a key role in the sales and support of Rapidform 3D scanning software to customers throughout North America. You will fulfill software orders, manage our license database, support customers with licensing [...]

Rapidform Inc. has an opportunity for a talented applications engineer with experience in metrology to join our team.
The applications engineer plays a key role in the sales of Rapidform 3D Scanning Software to customers throughout North America. The successful candidate will be highly motivated, technically-savvy and be confident to take on sales responsibility. He or [...]

Rapidform user Local Motors has posted another installment about how they’re using XOR with a Z Corp Z Scanner to create SolidWorks models of components for the new car they are creating.  Local Motors has only had Rapidform for about a month, but they are already putting it to very good use.
LM: Engineering Blog - [...]

Local Motors, who just bought Rapidform XOR, had this to say after their first day of training.
LM is a fascinating company.  They’re a spin-off of MIT that is working to make vehicle production a local, customized affair.  They’re combining advanced engineering capability (especially 3D scanning!) with web 2.0 community capabilities to let people directly affect [...]

We recently had a customer ask us this question:
I’m currently building a new machine for running RapidWorks, and we will have a great deal of scanning data to process, taken from very large objects requiring the merge of dozens of scans. We need to find a sweet spot between cost and performance, and it would [...]

Leica HDS laser scanners use Cyclone software to do initial processing and cleanup of the data.  If you want to use Leica HDS data in Rapidform, you can save the scans in Cyclone as .PTS or .PTX formats, both of which are supported by all Rapidform products.
As an aside, it’s important to know how to [...]

We’ve put together a white paper outlining the techniques and advantages of what we call third-generation reverse engineering. Click here to download a copy in PDF format. Feel free to share this with colleagues as well.
To summarize briefly: 3G RE is the process of making a full CAD model from 3D scan data, [...]

You’ve seen pictures of burn victims, maybe you know one. The scarring can be horrendous, but CIMMED and Rapidform XOS are working to make those debilitating scars a thing of the past. Steve Kidd, President of CimMed spoke about using Rapidform XOS for creating burn masks to help burn victims heal more quickly and with [...]

You can imagine the condition of an old field-worn military vehicle, hardly the best source for a pristine CAD model from scan data, or is it?
This isn’t any military vehicle, this is the original prototype Jeep – from Bantam — predating that Willys, Ford, or Kaiser your granddad drove in the big one. The Bantam [...]

We’ve just released RapidWorks 2.3, which has some nice improvements to hole filling on meshes, as well as a bunch of enhancements throughout the software. The biggest news, though, is that with the 2.3 release, 64 bit is now available. If you ever run out of memory while processing big scan data sets, [...]