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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



1.5M Year Old Footprints Examined Using Rapidform

By Tom Charron • Mar 11th, 2009 • Category: Application Stories
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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…



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,…



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…



How To Download Rapidform Software

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

Follow these instructions to download Rapidform Software(s)

Step 1: Click on the following specific link to download the appropriate software.
XOS Software Download
XOR Software Download
XOV Software Download

Step 2: In the home page as shown below,…



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…



New Life for a Historic Jeep

By Tom Charron • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: Application Stories
Jeep Frame Reverse Engineering

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 —…



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…