Rapidform is used for scientific research every day, but rarely does it help with such an important discovery as this: ancient human footprints found in Kenya reveal that our ancestors had…

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,…

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…

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

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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…

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…

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…

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 —…

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…

Problem

Measuring the thickness of an object like a propeller has generally been a tedious process that is difficult to repeat consistently.

The traditional thickness measurement process goes something like this:

1. Mark each blade to define cylindrical (or conic) cross sections

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