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Customer blog: Reverse engineering an engine mount

By Tom Charron • Aug 13th, 2008 • Category: Application Stories

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 - [...]



Customer Testimonial: Local Motors

By Tom Charron • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Application Stories

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 [...]



How To Download Rapidform Software

By Som Valliyappan • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: Application Stories, XOR, XOS, XOV

Follow these instructions to download Rapidform Software(s)
Step 1: Click on the following link
Download Rapidform Software
Step 2: In the home page as shown below, login with the User Name and Password provided to you

If you do not have one then click here to contact our local Rapidform Reseller in order to receive the required login information. [...]



3D Scanning & Rapidform XOS Provide New Hope for Burn Victims

By Tom Charron • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: Application Stories

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 [...]



New Life for a Historic Jeep

By Tom Charron • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: Application Stories

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 [...]



Drill Bit Modeling

By Tom Charron • Feb 28th, 2008 • Category: Application Stories

Drill bits have uniquely complex geometry, and even small differences in their shape affect their performance. So it’s important to capture the unmachined freeform geometry exactly as it is, while making sure that all the machined features are modeled as true prismatic shapes.
You can model a drill bit in Rapidform XOR easily. After scanning, import [...]