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XOR Overview

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Rapidform XOR, the only 3G (third-generation) reverse engineering software, is a complete software application for creating CAD models from 3D scan data. With Rapidform XOR, you can open data from any 3D scanner and quickly create editable, parametric solid models of virtually any physical object. These models can be transferred from XOR into popular CAD applications, including SolidWorks®, Siemens NX™, Pro/ENGINEER®, CATIA® V4, CATIA® V5 and AutoCAD® with complete feature trees intact. This means that – unlike second generation reverse engineering software – the models from XOR are editable just like any other part designed in CAD. And XOR can save models as Parasolid®, STEP, IGES and STL for use in any CAD/CAM/CAE application. The third-generation parametric reverse engineering approach inside XOR makes creating high quality, ready to manufacture CAD models fast and easy. Creating complete solid models accurate to within a few microns of a 3D scan takes less time than redrawing it in CAD. XOR, paired with a 3D scanner, is simply the fastest, most accurate way to create a design model of a real-world object.

Parametric CAD Models from 3D Scan Data

Rapidform XOR uses proven solid and surface modeling techniques to create CAD models from point clouds and polygon meshes produced by 3D scanners. Unlike the raw data that is created by a 3D scanner, these CAD models are lightweight, made up of editable features, and are directly usable for machining, design changes, simulations, analysis and much more. And unlike first- or second-generation reverse engineering approaches, the models you create in XOR aren't just static NURBS surfaces. They can be manipulated, edited, updated and changed at any time and in any way you define. And every model created in Rapidform XOR is sure to be accurate. The patent-pending Accuracy Analyzer™ shows real time deviation analysis while you redesign the part, so you can ensure your finished model is faithful to the original 3D scan. And it saves time because you never have to leave XOR to check your modeling accuracy.

Capture Design Intent

In Rapidform XOR, you're not just capturing the shape of the scanned object, you're capturing its original design intent as well. XOR automatically detects features, such as revolves, extrusions, sweeps and fillets, on the scanned object. Finished CAD models from XOR are “intelligent” – they contain both form and function. Because the models are made up of features extracted from scans, rather than just surfaces that are fit to scan data, they are much cleaner and have defined dimensions and constraints. Depending on the need, you may want your reverse engineered models to match the exact geometry of the real world part, including all of its imperfections. But more often than not, a pristine, idealized CAD model that represents the original design intent of the part is preferred. XOR is the only reverse engineering software that extracts design intent as CAD features.

Seamless Interoperability with Full Modeling History in CAD System

CAD models are the industry standard for communicating design parameters and manufacturing requirements. Once the 3D scan data of a part has been modeled in Rapidform XOR, a fully parametric solid model with modeling history can be exported through XOR's patent-pending liveTransfer™ and modified in SolidWorks®, Siemens NX™, Pro/ENGINEER®, CATIA® V4, CATIA® V5 and AutoCAD®. Other 3D applications can open models created in XOR using industry-standard formats like Parasolid®, STEP and IGES.

Faster Than Any Other Reverse Engineering Approach

Rapidform XOR takes an elegantly simple approach to reverse engineering: redesign an object the same way it was originally designed. Because XOR uses 3D scan data as a template on which to build a CAD model, rather than converting the scan data into a NURBS surface model, you don’t need to spend much time cleaning or editing the point cloud or polygon mesh itself. Traditional first- and second-generation reverse engineering approaches require a perfected mesh, which can sometimes take hours to refine. With XOR, you skip directly to making the CAD model. Benchmark tests have shown that XOR’s third-generation approach cuts complex reverse engineering jobs from days to hours.

Engineering-grade CAD Models from Billions of Points

A new out-of–core massive point cloud engine of Rapidform XOR handles 10x more data with real-time rendering of billions of point cloud. Thus, Rapidform XOR is also a right software solution for huge size of scan data generated by long range 3D scanners as well. Thanks to Rapidform XOR’s powerful geometric feature extraction functionality, engineering-grade as-built CAD models can be easily created from huge size of scan data.

Right Solution for Both Parametric CAD Modeling and Freeform NURBS Patching

Rapidform XOR is also the best reverse design software for 2G reverse modeling of freeform NURBS patching as well as 3G reverse modeling of parametric CAD modeling. Rapidform XOR automatically creates, orderly NURBS surface models where the surface patches follow the underlying features based on its intelligent "Feature-Flow" surfacing functionality. Downstream jobs such as FEA and CAM will appreciate orderly networks that have fewer patches are aligned to the major topology of the part.

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XOR Benefits

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A Great Time & Cost Saver Saving 100% + over Conventional Reverse Design Workflow

The design process and user interface in Rapidform XOR/Redesign have been developed to be instantly familiar to users of popular CAD applications, leading to incredible time savings over traditional reverse engineering software while simultaneously creating output in the form of parametric CAD solid models. Time savings can be realized through:

Easy to Use A reduced learning curve through the use of a familiar CAD interface and design process
A Great Time Saver A design process that removes the time consuming requirement of cleaning the scan data of a part
All-in-one A single software solution that fulfills the scan data processing, mesh healing and CAD modeling needs
Automated An intelligent tool that automatically extracts design feature parameters from 3D scan data – Redesign Assistant™
Removes Doubt A built in, real time deviation analysis tool – Accuracy Analyzer™
Easy Alignment A smart tool that intelligently indentifies and aligns 3D scan data to an ideal design coordinate system – Align Wizard™
Captures Design Features A magical tool that automatically extracts design features from 3D scan data - Feature Wizards™

XOR Features

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3G Reverse Modeler, Points + Polygons + NURBS + Parametric CAD Solids/Surfaces

Rapidform XOR is an advanced solid and surface modeling system for creating parametric CAD models from 3D scan data. It creates fully editable solid & surface models directly from 3D scan data, which can be opened in SolidWorks 2006+, UG NX 4+, Pro/E Wildfire 3.0+, CATIA V4, CATIA V5 and AutoCAD with modeling history and intelligent features intact. Rapidform XOR also includes all functionality found in Rapidform XOS. It is the ideal tool for mechanical reverse engineering applications, especially when you need editable models based on the design intent of the part, not just the geometry.

Collect data in real time with a liveScan™ enabled 3D scanner
Import point clouds or meshes from any scanner or other sources
Convert raw scans into high quality polygon mesh models with one click
- 4 step Mesh Buildup Wizard™ for automated point cloud-to-optimized mesh processin
Best-in-class editing & optimization tools for point clouds and meshes
CAE-ready mesh optimization
Create parametric CAD solids and surfaces directly from polygon meshes or point clouds
Automatically extract the original design intent of a scanned part (patent-pending Redesign Assistant™ & Feature Wizard™)
- Automatically extract design features such as extrude, revolve, loft & sweep, etc. to make CAD models,
using scan data as a template

- Automatically extracts design feature parameters such as profile sketch, fillet & chamfer radius/angle,
extrusion vectors, etc.
Create NURBS surface models for use in CAD/CAM and other downstream applications
- Feature flow auto-surfacing with smarter NURBS layout: Automatically create, orderly NURBS surface models
where the surface patches follow the underlying features

- Interactive surfacing: Professional level curve & surface modeling with sophisticated
NURBS patching control tools for demanding applications
Create 2D & 3D sketches from scan data automatically
Build complete feature trees with modeling history
Monitor accuracy of CAD to scan in real time while modeling (patent-pending Accuracy Analyzer™)
liveTransfer™- Transfer parametric models, with feature trees, into 6 major CAD systems;
- SolidWorks (2006+, any edition)

- UG NX (4+)

- Pro/Engineer Wildfire (3.0+)

- CATIA V4

- CATIA V5

- AutoCAD (2007+)

- After transfer, data from XOR behaves the same as native models in each software
Output to Inventor, Solid Edge and other applications via Parasolid, IGES, STEP, STL, etc.
Automatically "Refit & Redesign" original CAD data (As-designed) to scan data (As-built)
Engineering-grade CAD models from billions of points
- Unprecedented out-of–core massive point cloud engine

- Real-time rendering of hundreds of millions point cloud

- Handle huge size of scan data generated by long range 3D scanners
Automatic batch processing of 3D scans with WYSIWYG batch process designer
Texture mapping & Auto color adjustment features
The Golden part; Mesh averaging to create master parts

XOR Specification

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Supported File Formats

Rapidform Proprietary Formats

XDL, XRL, RWL (Rapidform Model File), XPC (Rapidform Extreme Point Cloud File), MDL (Rapidform2006 File), PTS (Rapidform Points File), FCS (Rapidform Polygons File), ICF (INUS Compression Format)

3D Scanner File Format

VVD/CDM/CDK(Minolta), RGV/RVM (Range7), AC(Steinbichler), CBK/GRK/CWK(Kreon), G3D/CLOUD/SURF(GOM), HYM(Hymarc), CV/SNX(Solutionix), IQSCAN(iQvolution), PSL(LDI), PMJ/PMJX(3D Digital Corp.), RTPI/XYZI/XYZRGB(DeltaSphere), PTS/PTX/PTG(Leica), SAB/SAB2(3D Scanners), SOI(MENSI), 3DD/RXP(Riegl), STB(Scantech), SWL/BIN/SWB(Perceptron), SNX/TFM(Wicks & Wilson), XYZ/CRS/LIN/SMH/BIN(Opton), 3PI(Shape Grabber), PLY(Cyberware), BRE(Breuckmann), M3D(Steintek), FLS/FWS(Faro), SCN(NextEngine), PIX(PICZA (Roland)), BTX (Surphaser), XYZ/ XYZN(Cognitense), OPD (Optimet), CLS(Topcon), PTC(Kubit)

Standard File Formats

asc/ xyz/ txt (Ascii Points File), STL, OBJ, 3DS (3D Studio) , WRL(VRML), IV(Inventor Ascii), DAT/NAS(Nastran), ANS(Ansys), IGS/IGES(IGES), STP/STEP(STEP File), dxf (AutoCAD DXF), VDA(VDA-FS), 3dm (OpenNURBS(Rhino)), X_T, X_B (Parasolid Text/Binary)

CAD Native File Formats(RAPIDFORM EXCHANGE™ - Optional Product)

CATIA V4/V5(Read/Write), Siemens NX, Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, ACIS

Point Cloud Processing

• Filter noise
• Sampling
• Point smoothing
• Edit texture
• Mesh construction

Scan Data Preprocessing

• Automatic scan data processing from multi-shot point cloud into qualified mesh - Mesh Buildup Wizard™
• Triangulation (2D, 3D, Mesh Construction)
• Align scan data
• Merge (Surface, Volume, Mesh Construction)
• Combine
• Decimate
• Normal information manager
• Transform scan data
• Average meshes
• Boolean meshes

Align Scan Data to Origin or CAD

• Analysis of scan features and aligns to origin
• User interactive alignment to origin
• Quick and Best-fit alignment to CAD
• Datum matching alignment to CAD

Best-in-class Point Cloud & Mesh Operations

• Automatic mesh healing & cleaning
• Watertight and optimized mesh from raw scan data just with one click - Rewrap™
• Advanced CAD mesh healing
• Automatic hole filling with high curvature continuity
• Instant mesh optimization for direct use in RP, CAM & CAE
• Detail resolution controls(decimate & subdivide)
• Smoothness controls(global & local smoothing)
• Automatic re-meshing for CAE functional models
• Professional yet highly interactive mesh editing tools
• Advanced mesh modeling & optimization
• Batch process designer
• Global remesh, remove marker, de-feature, hole filling, fix boundary, smooth boundary, fit boundary,
fit region to analytic shape, split & trim, divide, thicken, offset, etc.

Direct Color Texture Editing

• Color-texture-aware mesh operation and texture preservation
• Color parameter adjustments and editing
• Automatic color balancing between multiple scans
• Create single texture atlas from multiple textures with minimizing mosaic textures
• 3D data compression and streaming for web publishing
• Texture mapping with image file

Feature Wizard™

• Extraction of solid/surface primitive geometries
• Extrusion wizard
• Revolution wizard
• Sweep wizard
• Loft wizard
• Pipe wizard

Redesign Assistant™

• Unprecedented tools for extracting design parameters from 3D scan data
• Utilize meshes as redesign parameters Automatic mesh region segmentation
• Automatic extraction of design feature parameters from meshes

filet radius and center, sketch plane & profile(automatic sketching), sweep path curve, extrusion axis, mirroring plane, revolving center axis, pipe center axis, drafting angle, 3D section curve for lofting, feature curve, offset/thickening distance, cylinder/cone axis, slot axis, pattern axis and direction, silhouette curve, parting line, bead line, helix and spiral curve, etc.

• Automatically create sketch profiles with dimensions and constraints from mesh models
• Automatic extraction of 2D/3D design features from mesh
• Intelligent real-time 2D/3D geometry recognition and snapping

Accuracy Analyzer™

• Redesign within user-defined allowable tolerances
• Automatic and real-time error visualization
• Diverse object sensitive analysis tools (mesh to mesh, mesh to CAD, point cloud to CAD, etc.)
• Mesh analysis functions (deviation, curvature, environment mapping)
• Curve analysis functions (deviation, curvature, torsion, disjoined ends)
• Surface analysis functions (deviation, curvature, continuity, Iso-line, environment mapping)

Hybrid Modeling – Solid, Surface, Mesh, Point Cloud and Texture

• Highly sophisticated yet familiar by utilizing widely accepted solid and surface modeling features
- Solid Features: extrude, sweep, revolve, pipe, thicken, draft, round with various radius, chamfer, hollow (shell),
linear/circular/curve pattern, boolean modeling, embossing, engraving, etc.
- Surfacing Features: drape, blend, extrude, revolve, sweep, loft, ruled, offset, mirror, fill face, extend,
trim/untrim, match, heal, etc.
• Modeling history management(feature history rebuild, reroute & reorder)
• CAD-like parametric feature management

Quick Mesh-to-Surface

• Automatic feature-flow shrink wrapped surface model generation
• Optimized representations of original mesh data with negligible deviation error
• Interactive mesh-fit surfacing(region fit & boundary fit)
• Feature-flow curve network
• Curve network design and editing

CAD Correct™ - CAD-to-Scan Refit & Redesign

• Update the original CAD model to represent the changes in the as-built part
• Import CAD data in a variety of CAD file formats
• Fast and automatic CAD & mesh model coordinate alignment
• CAD local modification and one-button CAD-to-Scan refit

Sophisticated Curve/Sketch Tools

• Automatic extraction of sketch profile from mesh and point cloud
• Silhouette curve from mesh or point cloud
• Cross sectioning freeform curve design on point cloud and mesh
• Automatic dimensioning & constraining Variety of 2D drafting tools
• Comprehensive 3D curve design tools
• Intelligent real-time geometry recognition
• Curvature-based curve network design
• Text drawing on sketch
• Various curve editing tools
- Fillet, chamfer, trim, offset, convert, extend, split, mirror, resize, pattern, etc.

liveTransfer™ - Seamless Data Transfer

• Transfer output model with full history to CAD system
• Export models in a variety of standard file formats
• liveTransfer to SolidWorks, UGS NX, Pro/E Wildfire, AutoCAD
• Save as CATIA V4 and V5

liveScan™ - Direct Interface with 3D Scanning Devices

• Real-time guided scanning
• Scan and generate design features on-the-fly
• Tightly integrated with Mesh Buildup Wizard
• Fully automated multi-shot registration and scan data processing

Viewing and Display

• Intelligent point cloud rendering for visualization of huge number of data
• Various point cloud display methods (depth, x-ray, height)
• Transform viewing point into model
• Light environment setting
• Save viewpoint
• Working volume setting

XOS Overview

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Rapidform XOS/Scan is the value leader in shape capture (2G-2^nd generation-reverse modeling) applications, which is the world's 1^st software offering fully automated scan data processing to allow user to make a NURBS model from raw 3D scan data within a few button clicks. Rapidform XOS is the most affordable reverse engineering software to end-to-end support point cloud, mesh, color texture, curve and surface operations in an integrated environment. As all-in-one software for 2G shape capture applications, it is the ideal tool for processing 3D scan data for 3D printing, rapid prototyping, and non-mechanical reverse engineering including medical, anthropological and archeological applications. Rapidform XOS widely supports all the possible shape capture workflows using 3D scan data.

3D Scanning to NURBS Conversion Ending up in CAD System with a Few Button Clicks

Throughout the development process, we focused on the automation of tedious and time-consuming tasks in reverse modeling process. Thanks to its fully automated Scan-to-NURBS feature, 3 button clicks from 3D scanning to NURBS conversion can be enough to end up being in other CAD systems.

Comprehensive Feature Set for Point Cloud, Polygon and Color Texture Processing

In addition to its Scan-to-NURBS modeling features, Rapidform XOS produces Class-A meshes in a single step. The collection of tools in the Rapidform XOS offers fast and accurate optimization & preparation of point clouds and polygons from any 3D scanning device. Also, a rich set of color-textured polygon model optimization and modeling tools is also available such as direct color texture editing, color-aware polygon operation and color parameter adjustment. The mesh models generated by Rapidform XOS can be directly used as input for target CAE, CAM and RP software for reverse engineering, CAE or manufacturing.

World's Best and Automated Scan-to-NURBS Tool at the Most Affordable Price

Rapidform XOS is analogous to the surface modeler(2G shape capture solution). It is for those that have no need to perform redesign on parametric solids. Rapidform XOS offers advanced curve and surface tools for developing precise, high-quality surface models. Compared to Rapidform XOS, Rapidform XOR, Rapidform XOS' family product, is analogous to the hybrid modelers(3G reverse modeler), which is the only 3D scanning software application that builds editable, parametric solid models from a raw 3D scan data.

XOS Benefits

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Comprehensive Software Application Sets with New Price/Performance Standard.

Rapidform XOS offers unprecedented price/performance. It is the world’s 1st software offering fully automated scan data processing to allow user to make a NURBS model from raw 3D scan data within a few button clicks. With a four-fold increase in features and functions compared to other software, Rapidform XOS is the most affordable reverse engineering software to end-to-end support point cloud, mesh, color texture, curve and surface operations in an integrated environment.

Automated • World's 1^st 100% automated tool for defect-free, watertight meshes from raw scan data – Mesh Buildup Wizard™ • One-button quick B-rep surfacing for design analysis & verification applications – Mesh-to-NURBS • Fully automated point cloud and mesh optimization for direct use of 3D scan data in RP, CAM, CAE and visualization • Automatic re-meshing for generating CAE functional models - Scan-to-CAE
All-in-one True hybrid modeling software for point cloud, mesh, texture and freeform surface
Fully Covering Widely supports all the possible reverse engineering workflows using 3D scan data as follows: • 3D (color) scanned mesh data optimization to rapidly buildup watertight mesh model • 3D scan data Design curve extraction & modeling Reverse design with your CAD system • 3D scan data One-button NURBS conversion further processing in various software
Removes Doubt A built in, real time deviation analysis tool – Accuracy Analyzer™
Easy Alignment A smart tool that intelligently indentifies and aligns 3D scan data to an ideal design coordinate system – Align Wizard™

XOS Features

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2G Shape Capture Software, Points + Polygons + Texture + NURBS Curve/Surface

Rapidform XOS lets you turn raw 3D scan data into high quality, watertight polygon meshes and NURBS surface models.
It features liveScan technology for real-time data capture with popular 3D scanners, multi-scan alignment, mesh optimization, and automatic NURBS surface creation. It is the ideal tool for processing 3D scan data for 3D printing, rapid prototyping, and non-mechanical reverse engineering including medical, anthropological and archeological applications. With Rapidform XOS, you can:

Collect data in real time with a liveScan™ enabled 3D scanner

- The 3D scanner direct control of Rapidform XOS supports 100% real-time automated registration and scan data processing as well.

Import point clouds or meshes from any scanner or other source
Intelligently indentify and align 3D scan data to an ideal design coordinate system with Align Wizard™
A built in, real time deviation analysis tool – Accuracy Analyzer™

- Real time deviation analysis results based on user defined tolerances to ensure that the model is redesigned within allowable tolerances.

100% automatically convert raw scans into high quality polygon mesh models

-4 step Mesh Buildup Wizard™ for automated point cloud optimized mesh processing

Reduce polygon mesh file size without losing accuracy
CAE-ready mesh optimization
NURBS curve modeling, including automatic feature line extraction
Create NURBS surface models for use in CAD/CAM and other downstream applications

- Auto-surfacing: Complete surface models in two clicks

- Interactive surfacing: Professional level curve & surface modeling for demanding applications

XOS Specifications

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Supported File Formats

Rapidform Proprietary Formats

XRL(XOR model file), XDL(Rapidform XOV(XOS) model file), MDL(Rapidform2006 model file), FCS(mesh file), ICF(INUS Compression Format), RPS(Rapidform Point-Stream file)

Standard File Formats

STL, OBJ, PLY, 3DS, WRL(VRML), IGES, STEP, VDAFS, Parasolid model file(X_T, X_B), Rhino(3DM)

3D scanner file format

VVD/CDM/CAM/CDK(Minolta), AC(Steinbichler), CBK/GRK/CWK(Kreon), G3D/CLOUD/SURF(GOM), HYM(Hymarc), CV/SNX(Solutionix), IQSCAN(iQvolution), PSL(LDI), PMJ/PMJX(3D Digital Corp.), RTPI/XYZI/XYZRGB(3rd Tech), PTS/PTX(Cyra), SAB/SAB2(3D Scanners), SOI(MENSI), 3DD(Riegl), STB(Scantech), SWL/BIN/SWB(Perceptron), TFM(Wicks & Wilson), XYZ/CRS/LIN/SMH/BIN(Opton), 3PI(Shape Grabber), PLY(Cyberware), BRE(Breuckmann), M3D(Steintek), FLS(Faro), SCN(NextEngine), PIX(Roland DG)

Point Cloud & Mesh Cleanup

• Automatic point cloud/mesh healing & cleaning
• Automatic scan data processing from multi-shot point cloud into qualified mesh - Mesh Buildup Wizard™
• Watertight and optimized mesh from raw scan data just with one click - Rewrap™
• Advanced CAD mesh healing
• Automatic hole filling with high curvature continuity

Best-in-class Point Cloud & Mesh Operations

• Cross sectioning freeform curve design on point cloud and mesh
• Instant mesh optimization for direct use in RP, CAM & CAE
• Detail resolution controls(decimate & subdivide)
• Smoothness controls(global & local smoothing)
• Automatic re-meshing for CAE functional models
• Professional yet highly interactive point cloud/mesh editing tools
• Advanced point cloud/mesh modeling & optimization

global remesh, remove marker, de-feature, hole filling, fix boundary, smooth boundary, fit boundary, fit region to analytic shape,
split & trim, divide, thicken, offset, etc.

Direct Color Texture Editing

Align Wizard™

• Wizard for aligning 3D scan data to ideal design coordinate system
• Highly interactive toolset for coordinate alignment
• Quick fit, Best fit, 3-2-1, Datum, By Ref. coordinates, etc.

Accuracy Analyzer™

• Redesign within user-defined allowable tolerances
• Automatic and real-time error visualization
• Diverse object sensitive analysis tools(mesh to mesh, mesh to CAD, etc.)

Quick Mesh-to-Surface

• Intelligent primitive(reference geometry) extraction from point cloud/mesh
• Automatic shrink wrapped surface model generation
• Optimized representations of original mesh data with negligible deviation error
• Interactive mesh-fit surfacing(region fit & boundary fit)

Sophisticated Curve Tools

• Automatic extraction of design curve and feature curve from mesh
• Intelligent dimensioning & constraining
• Comprehensive 3D curve design tools e.g. section curves
• Intelligent real-time geometry recognition
• Curvature-based curve network design

liveScan™ - Direct Interface with 3D Scanning Devices

• Real-time guided scanning
• Scan and generate design features on-the-fly
• Tightly integrated with Mesh Buildup Wizard
• Fully automated multi-shot registration and scan data processing
• Digitizing with hard probe

XOV™ Overview

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Rapidform XOV is the ideal solution for inspecting parts with a 3D scanner. It borrows a powerful concept from the CAD world: every inspection job generates a history tree, so you can easily modify or repeat the inspection process any time. XOV combines in-depth inspection functionality with highly accurate algorithms certified and tested by leading metrology labs. And it reads native files from Siemens NX, CATIA V5 and Pro/ENGINEER, including dimensions, tolerances and datums.

The Most CAD Friendly Point-cloud Inspection Software

With XOV, you can import your CAD part files, and dimensions, tolerances, datums and alignment information all come in automatically. Native import is available for Siemens NX, CATIA V5 and Pro/ENGINEER (for SolidWorks, see InspectWorks). Parts from other CAD systems can be imported via Parasolid, STP, or IGS, and Rapidform XOV will automatically detect features and allow you to quickly define dimensions and tolerances to be inspected.

Macro-free Inspection Process Automation

In XOV, you've got a simple interface similar to popular CAD applications, so running through the inspection process is a breeze. Just import the CAD nominal, open the scans of your part (or use liveScan to run your 3D scanner inside XOV), and you're ready to go. Every alignment, deviation color map, dimension and tolerance that you measure is added to the history tree, so you can track exactly what you've done and change anything at any time. No other point cloud metrology software lets you tweak your inspection process so easily. Imagine that you're finishing up an inspection job, only to notice your part isn't properly aligned to the CAD model – no problem! With XOV, you simply change the alignment, and the software recalculates every measurement and regenerates an inspection report.

Powerful Capabilities for the Most Demanding Applications

There's a reason Rapidform XOV is used by almost every major automaker and thousands of other companies: it has in-depth functionality to complete the toughest inspection jobs. Sophisticated alignments, ANSI Y14.5b compliant GD&T and extensive deviation analysis capabilities let you perform detailed inspections of your parts. Sheet metal, castings, plastics, tooling and machined parts can all be measured and compared to CAD models in XOV.

Automatic Inspection Repetition

Because Rapidform XOV tracks every step of the inspection process, once you've inspected one sample of a part, every subsequent sample can be inspected automatically. XOV recognizes features in the scan data and measures them on the fly without any user interaction needed. So the next part you inspect is just one step from beginning to end. You don't need to write macros to automate your work because Rapidform XOV is history-based just like Rapidform XOR.

Proven Accuracy, Super Speed and Huge Data Capacity

When it comes to inspection, every calculation counts. That's why Rapidform XOV's geometry calculation algorithms have been tested by America's NIST, Britian's NPL and independently certified by Germany's PTB metrology authority as Class 1 accuracy. Top manufacturers around the world trust Rapidform XOV to measure thousands of parts every day.

XOV Benefits

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The Most CAD Friendly Point Cloud Inspection Software

Inspect native CAD data having 3D PMI with utilizing the process and user interface of popular CAD applications. When it comes to scan data based inspection for CAD users, Rapidform XOV is the one and only answer.

Compatible with Siemens NX, CATIA, Pro/ENGINEER and SolidWorks • Native CAD file import from popular CAD applications • Native GD&T annotation (3D PMI, Product Manufacturing Information) import from CAD – Truly 3D PMI-ready
Easiest & Quickest Works through CAD-like Intuitive User Interface • The way of use, user interface and job process are exactly same as those of CAD • Works like a popular history-based CAD system • Measure and tolerance parts with just a few clicks
Easily Automate Every Inspection Job without Macro • Built around the customer inspection process with detailed planning and fast and easy execution of inspection processing with no custom code writing or macros • Every measurement becomes repeatable as soon as it is created • Generate complete inspection reports, including color maps and GD&T, with one click
Feature-by-feature Parametric Inspection • Modify any part of an inspection job at any time and the software will update the results instantly • Correct mistakes or redo measurements without needing to inspect the whole part all over again.
Industry-proven Accuracy in Use at Top Companies • German PTB, American NIST and British NPL certified geometric calculation engine embedded • Higher accuracy and repeatability than any other 3D scanning software • Real Scan-to-CAD geometry analysis without any geometry approximation
Verify As-Built Parts • 3D scan virtually any part, and generate color map deviation analyses in minutes • Compare parts to CAD models or to other scans
Share Inspection Results & Collaborate via the Internet • Easily share results with colleagues with interactive 3D models in a web browser • Publish PDF, PowerPoint, Excel and text reports, with interactive 3D images and detailed reports
Create Trend Analysis Reports & Use Results in Statistical Process Control • Systematically inspect multiple pieces to discover and track trends
Use Data from 3D Scanners and Other Devices • Combine data from multiple sources, including CMMs, trackers and articulating arms • Scan and generate results in real time with liveScan™

XOV Features

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Compare Manufactured Parts to CAD Models in Minutes

Rapidform® XOV/Verifier™ automatically inspects native CAD having Native GD&T Annotation with utilizing the process and user interface of popular CAD applications. Rapidform® XOV/Verifier™2 is the world’s most CAD friendly inspection software for Systematic Inspection Processing ™ using dense point cloud data. It is the only software of its kind that is built around the customer inspection process with detailed planning and fast and easy execution of inspection processing with no custom code writing or macros. It offers CAD deviation analysis and geometric dimensioning & tolerancing (GD&T) of 3D scanned parts. It has been verified to perform the most accurate & repeatable calculation of any 3D scanning inspection software, and is certified by the German PTB and has been tested by American NIST and the British NPL. It is suited for professional metrology-level inspection applications with a rich feature set to inspect any part from any CAD software.

With Rapidform XOV, you can:

Collect data or measure design features instantly in real time with a liveScan™ enabled 3D scanner
Import point clouds or meshes from any scanner or other source
- De-noise and optimize scan data for more accurate inspection results with a rich set of scan data tools
Import native CAD models from any CAD software
- Compatible with Siemens NX, CATIA and Pro/ENGINEER

- Native file import available Siemens NX, CATIA and Pro/ENGINEER with native GD&T annotations

- Support standard neutral files such as IGES, STEP and VDAFS

- Available to use mesh data (tessellated CAD or scan data) as a nominal data
Automatically recognize design features on CAD, mesh data and scan data to be measured
Align scan data to CAD data using a variety of proven alignment methods
- Industry-proven accurate datum-based, 3-2-1, RPS target reference N-points, section profile and best-fit alignments

- Intelligent auto-align feature based on automatic feature recognition
Compare CAD and scan (or scan and scan) with color maps
Measure GD&T as well as conventional +/- tolerances
- Extensive GD&T support based on ANSI Y14.5B 1994 standards

- Fully support conventional 2D type GD&T and +/- tolerances on 2D drafts
Perform specialized measurements

- Boundary, silhouette curve, virtual edge and reference geometry deviation color mapping

- Pre-defined comparison point deviation analysis

Generate detailed inspection reports automatically
Generate trend analysis reports for multiple parts
Repeat any inspection without writing macro code (100% automatic inspection with class-leading repeatability)

XOV Specifications

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Supported File Formats

Rapidform Proprietary Formats

XOV(model), FCS(Polygon), PTS(point), RPS(Rapidform Point-Stream file), ICF(INUS Compression Format), XDL(XOV1 model), XRL(XOR model), MDL(Rapidform2006 model)

3D scanner file format

VVD/CDM/CAM/CDK/RGV/RVM(Minolta), AC(Steinbichler), CBK/GRK/CWK(Kreon),G3D/CLOUD/SURF (GOM), HYM(Hymarc), ICV/SNX(Solutionix),IQSCAN(iQvolution), PSL/SCN/PCN(LDI), PMJ/PMJX(3D Digital Corp.), RTPI/XYZI/XYZRGB(3rd Tech), PTS/PTX(Cyra), SAB/SAB2(3D Scanners), SOI(MENSI), 3DD(Riegl), STB(Scantech), SWL/BIN/SWB(Perceptron), TFM(Wicks & Wilson), XYZ/CRS/LIN/SMH/BIN(Opton), 3PI(Shape Grabber), PLY(Cyberware), BRE(Breuckmann), M3D(Steintek), FLS/FWS(Faro), PIX(Roland DG), SCN (Next Engine), XYZ, XYZN (Cognitens), OPD (Optimet)

Standard File Formats

ASC, STL, OBJ, TXT, DXF, IGS/IGES(IGES), STP/STEP(STEP), Parasolid, VDA(VDA-FS), 3DM(Rhino Open NURBS), WRL(VRML 1.0/97), 3DS(3D Studio), Inventor Ascii, Nastran, Ansys

CAD native file formats(Optional)

CATIA V4/V5, Siemens NX, Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, ACIS

Fundamental Functionalities

• True paralleled & multi-threaded processing(Multi-processor supported)
• Dynamic Disk Caching Technology™ for effective virtual memory management
• State-of-the-art GUI(Customizable & On-screen-display type GUI)
• Wide variety of real-time selection tools
• Intelligent point cloud rendering for visualization of huge number of data
• Various reference geometry construction
• Various transformations
• 3D Connexion's device supported
• Point streaming & ICF(Compression Technology) format for web publishing
• Customizable ASCII(point cloud) file format parser

CAD Friendly User Interface

• Feature & history based inspection processing
• CAD-like user interface
• Smart geometry selection directly on CAD without creating reference geometries
• 3D native GD&T annotation (3D PMI, Product Manufacturing Information) interface
• Unlimited undoing

Fully-covering Inspection Tools

• Various comparing tools e.g. whole deviation, section deviation, comparison deviation, curve deviation
• Advanced deviation tools e.g. boundary deviation, silhouette deviation, virtual edge deviation
• Analysis of mesh shape e.g. thickness, curvature, angle
• Feature recognizable smart dimension
• Mechanical dimensioning tools e.g. bore depth, counter-bore, countersink
• Fully support ANSI/ASME Y14.5 GD&T on 3D
• Fully support 2D type GD&T
• Standard display of GD&T’s feature controller frame
• Multiple sectioning using plane, curve, cylinder
• Offset sectioning
• Analytic display e.g. color map, whisker, color point, single component, over/under tolerance count
• Various ways to add annotations e.g. picking, linear/circular/cylindrical/spherical pattern, along curve
• Tolerance Table
• Color-bar template
• Mesh to Mesh inspection (Mesh Data as Nominal Data)

Various Industry-proven Alignment Tools

• Intelligent Automatic Alignment based on feature recognition
• Best Fit Alignment
• RPS Alignment
• Datum Alignment
• 3-2-1 Alignment
• Matrix Alignment

Inspection Process Automation

• Macro-free automation
• Batch process
• Task history manager
• Replace single or multiple scan data
• Auto update on the report
• Automatic error detection

Quick & Easy Reporting

• Microsoft WORD style report
• Support automatic reporting
• Support report template
• Editable report layout
• Adding entities by drag and drop
• Export as POWERPOINT, EXCEL, WORD, PDF and TXT

Direct Interface of 3D Scanning Hardware

• Up-to-data plug-ins of hardware interface can be found at www.rapidform.com/scanner

Point Cloud & Mesh Cleanup

• Automatic point cloud/mesh healing & cleaning
• Automatic scan data processing from multi-shot point cloud into qualified mesh - Mesh Buildup Wizard™
• Advanced CAD mesh healing
• Automatic hole filling with high curvature continuity

Best-in-class Point Cloud & Mesh Operations

• Cross sectioning freeform curve design on point cloud and mesh
• Instant mesh optimization for direct use in RP, CAM & CAE
• Detail resolution controls(decimate)
• Professional yet highly interactive point cloud/mesh editing tools
• Advanced point cloud/mesh modeling & optimization remove marker, de-feature, hole filling, fix boundary, smooth boundary, fit boundary, split & trim, thicken, offset, etc.

Sophisticated Curve Tools

• Comprehensive 3D curve generation tools on CAD and point cloud/mesh e.g. spline, section curves, intersection curves
• Basic curve editing tools e.g. offset, mirror, projection, trim, extend, etc.
• Advanced curve editing tools e.g. match, merge, constraint control, etc.
• Convertible CAD edge to curve

InspectWorks Overview

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InspectWorks™ is an add-in for SolidWorks that enables quick, first-article inspection from 3D scan data right inside your native CAD environment. InspectWorks is fast and easy to use, so you can check part quality right at your desk. You simply scan your part with a 3D scanner, import it into SolidWorks, and InspectWorks aligns the scan to your part, shows deviation by coloring the model, and instantly calculates all dimensions and tolerances defined on the part. Use it to quickly check a prototype, or figure out assembly fit problems - and then immediately update your design! Compare any SolidWorks design to any scanned physical part. And because it's built on the same industry-leading architecture as Rapidform XOV, InspectWorks is accurate, industry-tested, and fast. With InspectWorks, you get deviation color maps, dimensions and tolerance measurements on virtually any part in 10 minutes!

Quickly Check Part or Prototype Quality Inside SolidWorks Using a 3D scanner

The Rapidform®-powered InspectWorks™ is the world's first third party SolidWorks add-in for quick, first-article inspection from 3D scan data. Compare SolidWorks models to manufactured parts – get deviation color maps, dimensions and tolerance measurements in 10 minutes. Designed for SolidWorks users who are unfamiliar with point clouds and 3D scanners and are not trained as quality professionals, InspectWorks performs automatic point cloud inspection within the SolidWorks environment. InspectWorks is fast and easy to use, so you can check part quality right at your desk.

Inspection for the SolidWorks Design Engineers

InspectWorks arms the designer and manufacturing engineer with quick access to part quality information so that the product development cycle continues unimpeded. With InspectWorks, a design engineer can quickly check the part using a 3D scanner to get a casual verification of the part's quality before it goes to the quality assurance stage for a formal inspection of production processes, which allows design engineer to effectively catch the problems in early design stage. InspectWorks allows early detection to prevent further investment of time and money in a flawed part.

InspectWorks Features

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Inspect Parts in SolidWorks in 5 Easy Steps:

Import Data from Any 3D Scanner

- InspectWorks handles large data sets(20 Million points on 32-bit systems) Supports point clouds and meshes from any source

Accurate Automatic Alignment

- One click best-fit and datum based alignment of scans to SolidWorks models Industry proven and lab tested accuracy

Deviation Analysis with Color Maps

- Compare scanned parts to SolidWorks models to see deviations
- Check overall deviation on the 3D part, as well as 2D section deviations
- Set allowable tolerance to see every area of the part out of tolerance
- Check specific deviation values anywhere on the part

Check Dimensions and Tolerances Automatically

- InspectWorks takes full advantage of SolidWorks DimXpert™
- All dimensions and tolerances on the part are automatically calculated
- See complete GD&T and/or Plus/Minus Tolerance results with one click

Automatic Report Generation

- Create reports in Microsoft® Excel with screenshots and data tables All dimension and tolerance results included

* InspectWorks is built on Rapidform XOV technology, German PTB certified, American NIST & British NPL tested.

InspectWorks Benefits

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Improve Product Quality and Reduce Design Iterations with Quick Part Inspections at Your Desk

Quickly inspect native SolidWorks model data having 3D PMI by DimXpert™ inside SolidWorks user interface.

Fully Integrated Add-in for SolidWorks
Extremely Simple-to-learn and Easy-to-use
One-button Scan-to-CAD Alignment
CAD-to-Part Surface/Section Deviation Mapping
Automatic SolidWorks DimXpert™ GD&T Measurement
Instant Go/No-Go Decision on GD&T and/or Plus/Minus Tolerance Annotations
Automatic Report Generation
Compatible with All 3D Scanners

InspectWorks Specifications

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Supported File Formats

Rapidform Proprietary Formats

XDL/XRL/XOV(XO Model File), MDL(Rapidform2006 File), PTS(Rapidform Points File), FCS(Rapidform Polygons File), ICF(INUS Compression Format), RPS(Rapidform Point-Stream File)

Standard File Formats

ASC/XYZ/TXT(Ascii Points File), STL, OBJ, 3DS(3D Studio), WRL(VRML 1.0/97), IV(Inventor Ascii), DAT/NAS(Nastran), ANS(Ansys), IGS/IGES(IGES), STP/STEP(STEP File), DXF(AutoCAD DXF File), VDA(VDA-FS), 3DM(Rhino Open NURBS)

3D scanner file format

SCN(NextEngine), AC(Steinbichler), BRE(Breuckmann), VVD/CDM/CAM/CDK(VIVID), RGV/RVM(Range7), G3D/CLOUD/SURF(GOM), PMJ/PMJX(3D Digital Corp.), PTS/PTX(Cyra), XYZ/CRS/LIN/SMH/BIN(Opton), SOI(MENSI), STB(Scantech), 3PI(Shape Grabber), SAB/SAB2(3D Scanners), SWL/BIN/SWB(Perceptron), RTPI/XYZI/XYZRGB(DeltaSphere), PSL/SCN/PCN(LDI), CBK/GRK/CWK(Kreon), ICV/SNX(Solutionix), TFM(Wicks & Wilson), IQSCAN(iQ volution), FLS/FWS(FARO LS), 3DD(Riegl), M3D(Steintek), HYM(Hymarc), PIX(PICZA), XYZ, XYZN (Cognitens), OPD (Optimet), PLY(Cyberware), CL3(Topcon)

Major Functionalities

• Large capacity for point cloud data handling within SolidWorks environment
• One click best-fit and datum based alignment of scans to SolidWorks models
• Compare scanned parts to SolidWorks models to see deviations with color-map
• Check overall deviation on the 3D part, as well as 2D section deviations
• Seamless integration with SolidWorks user interface and its DimXpert™ feature
• Support various Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing(GD&T) based on the ASME Y14.5M 1994 standard
• Automatic repeating of inspection job based on project
• One click report to Microsoft Excel format

Compatibility

• Compatible with 32-bit / 64-bit SolidWorks 2008, 2009 and 2010
• Support not only standard GD&T but also GD&T created by DimXpert™
• For the reporting feature, Microsoft Excel 2007 or 2003 is required
• Support 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

Dll Overview

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Rapidform.dll™ is the world's 1^st Software Development Kit(SDK) for 3^rd party 3D scanning application developers. It provides core functionality that enables developers of Rapidform.dll-based products to rapidly and robustly develop and market the industry-proven products. Based on industry-proven geometry computation technology, Rapidform.dll supports point cloud handling, 3D scan data processing, mesh optimization & modeling, curve/surface modeling, generalized reverse engineering functionalities within an integrated framework. Rapidform.dll's unsurpassed 3D geometry computation capabilities enable both application developers and end users to leverage high-performance, high-accuracy digital duplication technology across the multiple stages of today's product design and manufacturing.

Rapidform.dll functionality is underpinned by configurable mechanisms that help integrate Rapidform.dll tightly and efficiently into diverse applications. Rapidform.dll has been developed for:

3D scanning hardware and software developer

Basic Point-to-Mesh processing software developer, e.g. 3D scanner vendor
3^rd party 3D scanning application software developer

Process automation engineering company

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Academic and research organization

Research laboratory of computer-aided geometry design and computer graphics
Research institute of 3D application solution development

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For more information about Rapidform.dll, please email us to info@rapidform.com(Sales) or dllsupport@rapidform.com(Support).

Dll Benefits

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Any 3D application developers from startups to industry leaders can easily start offering 3D scan data ready software several months later.

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Delivers Unsurpassed 3D Scan Data Processing Functionality

Rapidform.dll's comprehensive features extend to over 1,000 functions and provide the 3D scan data processing foundation for any commercial 3D applications. Based on industry-proven geometry computation technology powered by Rapidform, Rapidform.dll supports point cloud handling, 3D scan data processing, mesh optimization & modeling, curve/surface modeling, generalized reverse engineering functionalities within an integrated framework.

Ensures State-of-the-art Quality and Robustness

Due to Rapidform's widespread usage throughout the world, vendors and users are assured that Rapidform.dll is continually enhanced to meet the ever-growing quality expectations of today's user community. Comprehensive and rigorous testing across a spectrum of application scenarios enables Rapidform.dll to be maintained at production quality levels throughout the development cycle. Rapidform's plug-and-play updates assure users that new releases are seamlessly integrated with current mission-critical capabilities.

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Dll Features

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Supports Microsoft® Visual C++ 2003/2005 development platform

Native 3D scan data file import, plus IGES, STEP & VDAFS based CAD geometry read/write functions
Industry-proven accurate data handling to efficiently store and manage large sized 3D scan data sets
Best-in-class and industry-proven computational geometry calculation functionalities such as:

Geometry display and rendering modules
Full function sets of 3D scan data processing
One-button Scan-to-Qualified Mesh auto conversion
Data filtering, de-noising, smoothing and reduction
Mesh creation from unorganized point cloud data
Multi-shot registration and merging
Various geometric primitives fitting with error control
Mesh defect cleanup including curvature-based hole filling
Smart data reduction and 3D model data compression
Geometric primitives and feature extraction
3D design curve extraction including cross sectioning
One-button Mesh-to-Surface auto conversion
Color/texture data operation to name just a few
Full suite of model data inquiries and dimensioning
Deviation analysis between point, mesh, curve & surface

Dll Specifications

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Development Environment

• Rapidform.dll Provides different DLL and library files according to each platform (32/64 bit)
• Rapidform.dll™ V2 is not dependent to Visual Studio versions, So developers can choose his/her Visual C++ versions among VC++ 2003, 2005, or 2008.

Entities

• Supports various entity types for handling scanned point cloud/mesh data and for creation of NURBS curves/surface data.

- Mesh (Poly-Vertex, Poly-Face, Edge), Region Group (Region), NURBS Surface / Curve

Primitives

• Supports various geometry types used for referencing and calculation.

- (2D / 3D) Point, (2D / 3D) Vector, Plane, (2D / 3D) Polyline, Coordinate, (2D / 3D) Line, 3D Circle, 3D Circular Arc, Sphere,
Cylinder, Cone, Box, Torus, Slot, Rectangle, Regular Polygon.

Geometric Calculation APIs

Supports various methods for geometry evaluation.

• Calculate property of polygon 2D
• Get axis aligned box from point set
• Coincident points cleaning
• Sampling points
• Redundant points filtering
• Noisy points filtering
• Point thinning
• Find minimum circumscribed / inscribed circle from points
• Linear system solver
• Matrix operation
• Solve polygonal equation
• Calculating statistics of error between point set and geometry
• Calculating least square fitted geometry from point set
• Calculating Intersect between Geometries
• Comparing Geometries

Geometric Entity Handling

• Various methods (approx. over the 200 methods) are implemented into the appropriate entity class to effectively handle the geometries

File I/O

• Supports various scanner formats and neutral formats for importing and exporting.

Import Format

• Rapidform Point File (*.pts)
• Rapidform Polygons File (*.fcs)
• Ascii Point File (*.asc)
• STL File (*.stl)
• Vivid File (*.cdm, *.cdk, *.vvd)
• IGES File (*.iges, *.igs)
• STEP File (*.step, *.stp)
• VDAFS File (*.vda)
• Mensi File (*.soi)
• Rhino OpenNurbs File (*.3dm)
• NextEngine File (*.scn)

Export Format

• Ascii Point File (*.asc)
• STL File (*.stl)
• IGES File (*.iges, *.igs)
• STEP File (*.step, *.stp)
• Rhino OpenNurbs File (*.3dm)
• NextEngine File (*.scn)

Scan Data Processing Functions

Pre-processing

• Noise Filtering
• Data Sampling

Alignment

• Automatic
• Best-Fit
• RPS (N-Points)

Mesh generation

• 2D Triangulation
• Adaptive 3D Triangulation
• Mesh Combining
• Mesh Merging
• Watertight Mesh Conversion

Post-processing

• Cleaning for Various Erroneous Data
• Remeshing
• Mesh / Point Cloud Smoothing
• Mesh Subdivision
• Filling Holes of Mesh
• Mesh Feature Enhancement
• Mesh Boolean Operation
• Mesh Fit to Point Cloud
• Mesh Welding / Sewing Boundaries

NURBS Curve Generation / Surfacing Functions

• Auto Surfacing from Mesh (automatically creates surfaces covering mesh data)
• Create Section Curve from Mesh / Point Cloud

Inspection Functions

• Deviation Calculation between Multiple mesh or point Cloud Set

System Requirements

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Microsoft Windows Supported Operating System

- Windows XP SP2 or above is recommended
- Windows Vista SP1 or above is recommended

Hardware and Software Requirements

If your purpose of developing is for making applications which can handle huge size of scan data, these lists are recommended as below to support your potential performance.

CPU

- Intel EM64T or AMD64 compatible feature
- 2 GHz or above
- Dual or Multi-core

RAM

- Minimum: 1 GB (XP), 2 GB (Vista)
- Recommended: 8 GB
- Virtual Memory;
XP: recommended to about 2.5 times the amount of RAM
Vista: recommended to use the default option; “Automatically manage paging file size for all drives”

Hard Disk

- 40 GB or more recommended for large data handling

Graphics Card

- Recommended:
  OpenGL 2
  NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or above
  ATI Radeon X1650 or above

XOR What's New Service Pack 0

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Ongoing Innovation Perform powerful Redesign modeling with automated functions.

Loft Wizard™

This patent-pending technology automatically creates high quality lofted surfaces from scan data. From a mesh region, the Loft Wizard™ generates smooth lofted surfaces and profile curves within a user controlled tolerance.

One button CAD Correct™

With XOR2, you can import an existing CAD model and update the geometry to match a scanned physical part. CAD-to-Scan "Refit" provides an easy way to update the CAD model to reflect the As-Built geometry. With XOR's Refit technology, G2 continuity and G2 continuity matching are guaranteed throughout the updated surfaces. For example, Refit enables users, like stamping- die designers, to easily correct their CAD model to reflect hand-made modifications.

Local modification(Redesign) for CAD Correct™

Missing CAD design features which exist in an actual part due to manual tryout or hand-crafted processes can be easily and accurately redesigned directly on the original CAD data using 3D scan data of the actual part. Redesign Assistant™ allows a user to easily extract all key design parameters from 3D scan data to update and redesign the original CAD data.

Auto and intelligently guided 3D feature line design tool

Feature lines representing high curvature regions are just a click away. While designing interpolation curves on mesh, XOR2 visually guides users to pick a point on curvature flows of 3D scan data.

Augmented liveTransfer™(modeling history CAD translation)

Real-time and feature-by-feature CAD translation compatibility checking and warning: No more searching for the erroneous results of CAD incompatibilities! The CAD compatibility wizard flags operations that will not translate smoothly into the selected CAD program and suggests alternative techniques. Improvement has been made to: - SolidWorks liveTransfer - UG NX4 liveTransfer - Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire liveTransfer is newly added

liveScan™(direct scanner control)

liveScan™ enables you to operate your scanner from within XOR. All of the features and intuitive controls are incorporated, giving the user the means to capture and process data all in the Rapidform environment. Supported scanners include: Faro, Perceptron+Cimcore, Kreon, Cimcore Arm Probe, Romer Arm, Steinbichler T-Scan, API IntelliScan & IntelliProbe and others. - Touch Probe Support: In addition to direct scanning, probing is also supported to define primitives(vector, plane, etc), thereby supporting alignments using probed datum features. Probing is also supported to create freeform interpolation curves and surfaces.

Konica Minolta VIVID, Creaform Handyscan, Z Corp ZScanner, Breuckmann

direct control with 100% automated registration and scan data processing.

All-in-one Faster Redesign process saves you time

Mesh Build-up Wizard™

World's 1^st 100% automated tool for defect-free, watertight meshes from raw scan data. TWizard-style interface has been added to automate the creation of a defect-free and watertight mesh model from raw scan data. - Fully automatic multi-shot registration: No more picking common points on adjacent scans.

Brand new Rewrap™ function

To create a watertight and optimized mesh model from raw scan data just with one click.

Point cloud can be processed in one place

Newly designed noise filtering, smoothing, sampling, and triangulation integrated for a logical work-flow.

Cross sectioning freeform curve design on point cloud

No need to mesh the point cloud prior to curve generation, saving time and clicks.

Direct texture(color) editing

More natural mapping source(image) editing for merged scan data using Photoshop®-like tools Color property editing Color-preservation during mesh manipulation(e.g. decimation, subsampling, etc).

Enhancements

User selectable preferred CAD target application: the XOR environment is tuned to provide similar look and feel (Mouse operations, etc.) to the CAD environment into which the XOR data will be transferred.

Smarter auto segmentation

G2 continuity is guaranteed throughout surfaces created in XOR.
G2 continuity matching even for imported surface patches.

Helix and Spiral curve

Redesign Assistant™ tool has been added to extract curve parameters from 3D scan data.

Embossing

Embossing feature has been added (freeform projection and drafting angle option)

Text in 2D sketch has been added, the means to enter text into the modeling process.

Improved curvature continuity in mesh hole filling

Auto-mesh fit-surface

Auto-mesh fit-surface patch layout is editable in previewing.

XOR2 Service Pack 1

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The newest version of the most powerful 3D scanning software, Rapidform XOR2, is a continuation of Rapidform's innovative approach to scan data processing and parametric solid modeling. XOR2, offering more than 200 enhancements and new functions, automates processes and provides complete control of the 3D scanning workflow.

User Interface

User Defined Mesh Boundary Color

New check box called Boundary is newly added in the Display panel.
If you select this option as User Defined, boundary color will be displayed as your definition in the Preferences.

Viewing all Entities as Identical Color

New option called Front Face is added in the Display panel.
If you set this option as "All The Same", all entities will be displayed with default color(Gray) regardless of its material, texture or vertex/face color

New Rotation Viewpoint

Rotate CCW, CW, and Flip viewpoint is newly added under the Viewpoint menu.

General

Various add-in commands for scan data processing(Legacy features from XOV1 & XOS1)

2D/3D Triangulate, Find scan direction, Generate vertex normal, Reverse normal, Surface / Volume merge, Target register, Combine, etc

Mesh / Point Cloud

Clean up boundaries

Newly designed boundary editing tools allow user to clean up boundary noise easily and quickly.

Offset point clouds

You can offset not only a point cloud but also poly-vertices with a specific distance.

Mirror meshes

Symmetrical part can be easily built up using a mirroring plane which is automatically extracted.

Remove Marker

File import option has been newly added to the Remove Marker function If you have AICON's(*.obc) file which has coordinate information of index marker, you can import it and use its information to remove marker shape from the mesh.

Best-in-class hole filling

A wide variety of tools for filling hole allow user to make a qualified polygonal model quickly from an imperfect model.

Mesh Buildup Wizard™

The Mesh Buildup Wizard™ has been enhanced about user convenience and interface
- Every stage has Edit Tools option so that user can edit the result in current stage.
- Every stage has Apply button so that user can check a result in current stage.
- You can classify entities as Removing or Keeping data during the process by showing or hiding entities in the "Entity Thumbnail" panel.

Solid / Surface / Feature

Loft Wizard™

The Loft Wizard™ has been enhanced so that you can easily define section plane and profile. You can easily set the position of section plan and add new section plane if needed when you check the result by Accuracy Analyzer™.

Transform Body

Datum Alignment method has been newly added in the Transform Body You can transform bodies to other bodies or meshes using its datum.

Tangent Ref. Vector

Tangent method has been newly added in the Ref.Vector If 2D / 3D Sketch Curve and Point are already defined, you can easily create Tangent Vector on the Curve

CAD Refit

Greatly enhanced options have been newly added in the CAD Refit. You can define Loosely Fitting Face, Tightly Fitting Face, and Free Faces by the Group Faces By Stiffness option. And also control its Weightiness which is related with Loose and Tight Fitting. Now, Possible to apply CAD Refit to the selected faces considering spring-back effect by the Projection Multiplier

Sketch

Import external CAD sketches

2D drawing files(DXF, IGES, STEP and VDA-FS) from other CAD system can be imported as sketch entities into XOR’s sketch.

Smooth Curve

Partial Range option has been newly added in the Smooth so that you can apply smoothing to 3D Mesh Sketch and 3D Sketch Curve

Silhouette curve

Redesign Assistant™ tool has been added to extract curve parameters from 3D scan data.

Parabola curve

Redesign Assistant™ tool has been added to extract curve parameters from 3D scan data

liveScan™

Breuckmann Scanner Direct Controller

Brecukmann Direct Controller has been newly added in the Scanner Direct Control menu. You can directly control the Breuckmann scanner as well as turn table in the application.

XOR 32 Bit

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Microsoft Windows Supported Operating System

Preparation

Product	XP (32-bit)⁽¹⁾	XP (64-bit)⁽¹⁾	Vista (32-bit)⁽²⁾	Vista (64-bit)⁽²⁾
XOR

Product	Win7 (32-bit)⁽³⁾	Win7 (64-bit)⁽³⁾
XOR

⁽¹⁾ Windows XP (32-bit or 64-bit SP2 or above)
⁽²⁾ Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit SP1 or above)
⁽³⁾ Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

Hardware and Software Requirements

CPU

- Intel® and AMD® processors.
- Multi processors recommended for greater performance

RAM

- Minimum: 1 GB
- Recommended: 2 GB
- Virtual Memory; XP: recommended to 2.5 times the amount of RAM Vista, Win7: recommended to use the default option; "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives"

Hard Disk

- 30 GB or more recommended
- Temporary file cache requires about 3 GB free disk space for every 100 million points
- A fast hard drive such as SSD or more than 10000 RPM HDD may help to enhance the performance
- Recommended using multiple hard drives so that you can assign a "cache" drive for Rapidform temporary
storage and paging files to a hard drive different from the one for operating system installed for the better performance

Display

- OpenGL 1.2 or above, 32 bit true color required
- Recommended 24-inch wide screen monitor, 1920X1280 resolution

Graphics Card

Minimum:
- OpenGL 1.2 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 4 or above
- ATI Radeon 9600 or above

Recommended:
- 512 MB or higher graphic memory
- OpenGL 2.0 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or above
- ATI Radeon X1650 or above

Certified by Rapidform

Vendor	Product Name	Remark
ATI	Radeon 9600 XT Radeon X700 Radeon X1650 Radeon X1800 GTO Radeon HD2600 XT 256MB Radeon HD3870 512MB Radeon HD4850 1G FireGL Z1 FireGL V3100
NVIDIA	GeForce4 Ti 4400 GeForce FX 5200 GeForce FX 5500 GeForce FX 5600 GeForce FX 5600 XT GeForce FX 5700 GeForce FX Go 5200 GeForce FX Go 5700 GeForce Go 7400 GeForce Go 7600 GeForce 6600 GeForce 7800 GTX GeForce 8400M GeForce 8500 GTS GeForce 8600 GT GeForce 8600GTS GeForce 8600M GeForce 8800 GT GeForce 8800 GTS GeForce 9200M GeForce 9300GE GeForce 9600GT GeForce 9800GT GeForce 9800 GTX GeForce G105M GeForce GTS 250 GeForce GTS 335M GeForce GTX 285
NVIDIA	Quadro NVS 120M Quadro NVS 135M Quadro NVS 140M Quadro FX 500 Quadro FX 540 Quadro FX 570M Quadro FX Go 1400 Quadro FX 1500 Quadro FX 3500 Quadro FX 4500	The Quadro series must be set the Application Profile to SolidWorks in its property.

Not Recommended

-ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP DDR
-ATI Radeon X800 GTO
-ATI Radeon X1600
Note:
-If you use ATI Radeon series, the panning or rotation in the application might not operate correctly. To solve this problem, Uncheck the Use Custom Settings option under 3D > Standard Settings in the Catalyst Control Center dialog box and move the slider to the left. If it still have the malfunction, uncheck Use Custom Settings under 3D > Anti-Aliasing.
- The Quadro series must be set the Application Profile to SolidWorks in its property.

Other

- DVD drive
- 3 button mouse with scroll
- Sound card
- Keyboard
- Network card
- Microsoft Excel 2003 or 2007 for XOV report
- Internet Explorer version 7.x or higher
- Adobe Acrobat version 5.x or higher

XOR 64 Bit

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Microsoft Windows Supported Operating System

Preparation

Product	XP (32-bit)⁽¹⁾	XP (64-bit)⁽¹⁾	Vista (32-bit)⁽²⁾	Vista (64-bit)⁽²⁾
XOR

Product	Win7 (32-bit)⁽³⁾	Win7 (64-bit)⁽³⁾
XOR

⁽¹⁾ Windows XP (64-bit SP2 or above)
⁽²⁾ Windows Vista (64-bit SP1 or above)
⁽³⁾ Windows 7 (64-bit)

Hardware and Software Requirements

CPU

- Intel® and AMD® processors.
- Multi processors recommended for greater performance

RAM

- Minimum: 2 GB
- Recommended: 8 GB
- Virtual Memory; XP: recommended to 2.5 times the amount of RAM Vista, Win7: recommended to use the default option; "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives"

Hard Disk

Display

- OpenGL 1.2 or above, 32 bit true color required
- Recommended 24-inch wide screen monitor, 1920X1280 resolution

Graphics Card

Minimum:
- OpenGL 1.2 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 4 or above
- ATI Radeon 9600 or above

Recommended:
- 512 MB or higher graphic memory
- OpenGL 2.0 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or above
- ATI Radeon X1650 or above

Certified by Rapidform

Vendor	Product Name	Remark
ATI	Radeon X1600 Radeon X1800 GTO Radeon HD 2600 XT Radeon HD 3870 Radeon HD 4770 Radeon HD 4800 1G Radeon HD 5700 Radeon HD 5800
NVIDIA	GeForce Go 7600 GeForce 6600 GeForce 8400M GeForce 8600 GT GeForce 8600 GTS GeForce 8600M GeForce 8800 GT GeForce 8800 GTS GeForce 9300GE GeForce 9600GT GeForce 9800GT GeForce 9800 GTX GeForce G105M GeForce GTS 250 GeForce GTS 335M GeForce GTX 285
	Quadro FX 570M Quadro FX1500 Quadro FX 3500 Quadro FX 4500	The Quadro series must be set the Application Profile to SolidWorks in its property.

Not Recommended

-ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP DDR
Note:
- If you use ATI Radeon series, the panning or rotation in the application might not operate correctly. To solve this problem, Uncheck the Use Custom Settings option under 3D > Standard Settings in the Catalyst Control Center dialog box and move the slider to the left. If it still have the malfunction, uncheck Use Custom Settings under 3D > Anti-Aliasing.
- The Quadro series must be set the Application Profile to SolidWorks in its property.

Other

XOS 32 Bit

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Microsoft Windows Supported Operating System

Preparation

Product	XP (32-bit)⁽¹⁾	XP (64-bit)⁽¹⁾	Vista (32-bit)⁽³⁾	Vista (64-bit)⁽³⁾
XOS		⁽²⁾		⁽²⁾

⁽¹⁾ Windows XP SP2 or above is required
⁽²⁾ Rapidform XOS 64-bit editions are provied separately
⁽³⁾ Windows Vista SP1 or above is required

Hardware and Software Requirements

CPU

- Intel® and AMD® processors.
- Dual processors recommended for greater performance

RAM

- Minimum: 512 MB (XP), 1 GB (Vista)
- Recommended: 2 GB
- Virtual Memory; XP: recommended to 2.5 times the amount of RAM Vista: recommended to use the default option; "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives"

Hard Disk

- Temporary file cache requires a minimum of 4 GB free disk space
- 10 GB or more recommended

Display

- 1280X1024 resolution recommended, 32-bit true color required

Graphics Card

Minimum:
- OpenGL 1.2 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 4 or above
- ATI Radeon 9600 or above

Recommended:
- 512 MB or higher graphic memory
- OpenGL 2.0 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or above
- ATI Radeon X1650 or above

Certified by Rapidform

Vendor	Product Name	Remake
ATI	Radeon 9600 XT Radeon X700 Radeon X1650 Radeon X1800 GTO Radeon HD2600 XT 256MB Radeon HD3870 512MB Radeon HD4850 1G FireGL Z1 FireGL V3100
NVIDIA	GeForce4 Ti 4400 GeForce FX 5200 GeForce FX 5500 GeForce FX 5600 GeForce FX 5600 XT GeForce FX 5700 GeForce FX Go 5200 GeForce FX Go 5700 GeForce 6600 GeForce Go 7400 GeForce 7800 GTX GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB GeForce 8800 GT 256MB GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
NVIDIA	Quadro FX 500 Quadro FX 540 Quadro FX Go 1400 Quadro FX1500 256MB Quadro FX 3500 Quadro FX 4500	The Quadro series must be set the Application Profile to SolidWorks in its property.

Not Recommended

ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP DDR
ATI Radeon X800 GTO
ATI Radeon X1600
Note: If you use ATI Radeon series, the panning or rotation in the application might not operate correctly. To solve this problem, Uncheck the Use Custom Settings option under 3D > Standard Settings in the Catalyst Control Center dialog box and move the slider to the left. If it still have the malfunction, uncheck Use Custom Settings under 3D > Anti-Aliasing.

Other

- DVD drive
- 3 button mouse with scroll
- 17" monitor or above recommended
- Sound card
- Keyboard
- Network card
- Microsoft Excel 2003 or 2007 - Internet Explorer version 7.x or higher - Adobe Acrobat version 5.x or higher

XOS 64 Bit

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Microsoft Windows Supported Operating System

Preparation

Product	XP (32-bit)⁽¹⁾	XP (64-bit)⁽¹⁾	Vista (32-bit)⁽²⁾	Vista (64-bit)⁽²⁾
XOS

⁽¹⁾ Windows XP SP2 or above is required
⁽²⁾ Windows Vista SP1 or above is required

Hardware and Software Requirements

CPU

- Intel® and AMD® processors.
- Dual processors recommended for greater performance

RAM

- Minimum: 1 GB (XP), 2 GB (Vista)
- Recommended: 8 GB
- Virtual Memory; XP: recommended to 2.5 times the amount of RAM Vista: recommended to use the default option; "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives"

Hard Disk

- Temporary file cache requires a minimum of 4 GB free disk space
- 10 GB or more recommended

Display

- 1280X1024 resolution recommended, 32-bit true color required

Graphics Card

Minimum:
- OpenGL 1.2 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 4 or above
- ATI Radeon 9600 or above

Recommended:
- 512 MB or higher graphic memory
- OpenGL 2.0 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or above
- ATI Radeon X1650 or above

Certified by Rapidform

Vendor	Product Name	Remark
ATI	Radeon X1600 Radeon X1800 GTO Radeon HD2600 XT 256MB Radeon HD3870 512MB Radeon HD4850 1G
NVIDIA	GeForce 6600 GeForce 8600 GT GeForce 8600 GTS 256MBGeForce 8800 GT 256MB GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
NVIDIA	Quadro FX1500 256MB Quadro FX 3500 Quadro FX 4500	The Quadro series must be set the Application Profile to SolidWorks in its property.

Not Recommended

ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP DDR
Note: If you use ATI Radeon series, the panning or rotation in the application might not operate correctly. To solve this problem, Uncheck the Use Custom Settings option under 3D > Standard Settings in the Catalyst Control Center dialog box and move the slider to the left. If it still have the malfunction, uncheck Use Custom Settings under 3D > Anti-Aliasing.

Other

- DVD drive
- 3 button mouse with scroll
- 17" monitor or above recommended
- Sound card
- Keyboard
- Network card
- Microsoft Excel 2003 or 2007
- Internet Explorer version 7.x or higher
- Adobe Acrobat version 5.x or higher

XOV 32 Bit

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Microsoft Windows Supported Operating System

Preparation

Product	XP (32-bit)⁽¹⁾	XP (64-bit)⁽¹⁾	Vista (32-bit)⁽³⁾	Vista (64-bit)⁽³⁾
XOV		⁽²⁾		⁽²⁾

⁽¹⁾ Windows XP SP2 or above is required
⁽²⁾ Rapidform XOV 64-bit editions are provied separately
⁽³⁾ Windows Vista SP1 or above is required

Hardware and Software Requirements

CPU

- Intel® and AMD® processors.
- Dual processors recommended for greater performance

RAM

Hard Disk

- Temporary file cache requires a minimum of 4 GB free disk space
- 10 GB or more recommended

Display

- 1280X1024 resolution recommended, 32-bit true color required

Graphics Card

Minimum:
- OpenGL 1.2 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 4 or above
- ATI Radeon 9600 or above

Recommended:
- 512 MB or higher graphic memory
- OpenGL 2.0 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or above
- ATI Radeon X1650 or above

Certified by Rapidform

Vendor	Product Name	Remake
ATI	Radeon 9600 XT Radeon X700 Radeon X1650 Radeon X1800 GTO Radeon HD2600 XT 256MB Radeon HD3870 512MB Radeon HD4850 1G FireGL Z1 FireGL V3100
NVIDIA	GeForce4 Ti 4400 GeForce FX 5200 GeForce FX 5500 GeForce FX 5600 GeForce FX 5600 XT GeForce FX 5700 GeForce FX Go 5200 GeForce FX Go 5700 GeForce 6600 GeForce Go 7400 GeForce 7800 GTX GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB GeForce 8800 GT 256MB GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
NVIDIA	Quadro FX 500 Quadro FX 540 Quadro FX Go 1400 Quadro FX1500 256MB Quadro FX 3500 Quadro FX 4500	The Quadro series must be set the Application Profile to SolidWorks in its property.

Not Recommended

Other

- DVD drive
- 3 button mouse with scroll
- 17" monitor or above recommended
- Sound card
- Keyboard
- Network card
- Microsoft Excel 2003 or 2007
- Internet Explorer version 7.x or higher
- Adobe Acrobat version 5.x or higher

XOV 64 Bit

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Microsoft Windows Supported Operating System

Preparation

Product	XP (32-bit)⁽¹⁾	XP (64-bit)⁽¹⁾	Vista (32-bit)⁽²⁾	Vista (64-bit)⁽²⁾
XOV

⁽¹⁾ Windows XP SP2 or above is required
⁽²⁾ Windows Vista SP1 or above is required

Hardware and Software Requirements

CPU

- Intel® and AMD® processors.
- Dual processors recommended for greater performance

RAM

Hard Disk

- Temporary file cache requires a minimum of 4 GB free disk space
- 10 GB or more recommended

Display

- 1280X1024 resolution recommended, 32-bit true color required

Graphics Card

Minimum:
- OpenGL 1.2 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 4 or above
- ATI Radeon 9600 or above

Recommended:
- 512 MB or higher graphic memory
- OpenGL 2.0 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or above
- ATI Radeon X1650 or above

Certified by Rapidform

Vendor	Product Name	Remark
ATI	Radeon X1600 Radeon X1800 GTO Radeon HD2600 XT 256MB Radeon HD3870 512MB Radeon HD4850 1G
NVIDIA	GeForce 6600 GeForce 8600 GT GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB GeForce 8800 GT 256MB GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
NVIDIA	Quadro FX1500 256MB Quadro FX 3500 Quadro FX 4500	The Quadro series must be set the Application Profile to SolidWorks in its property.

Not Recommended

Other

- DVD drive
- 3 button mouse with scroll
- 17" monitor or above recommended
- Sound card
- Keyboard
- Network card
- Microsoft Excel 2003 or 2007
- Internet Explorer version 7.x or higher
- Adobe Acrobat version 5.x or higher

InspectWorks What,s New InspectWorks 1.3.1

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Rapidform has been well received, highly praised and widely accepted in the market. However, being the first of its kind, we were creating a solution for which there was no precedent. Over the past year, we have received valuable input and guidance from our users on how to refine and perfect this software application. Upgrade versions of Rapidform software by ongoing innovations are our answers to their requests and suggestions.

Enhancements

What's New button

What's New button is added in the title bar of InspectWorks. This button opens the .pdf file which describes enhanced functions and fixed bugs of current InspectWorks version.

Release Note

InspectWorks Release Notes command is added to the Help menu. This command opens the .pdf file which describes the whole version history of InspectWorks.

Deactivate InspectWorks

When you are running InspectWorks, Help > Deactivate InspectWorks License is disabled.

Import message

When you click the Cancel button on the Import dialog box, the message box says “failed to open the file”. This dialog box is removed.

Result of GD&T

Now, the Result in annotation of GD&T distinguishes two kinds of abnormal case: UNSUPPORTED (unsupported GD&T) and No Result (supported GD&T but no result from scan data)

Whole Deviation error message

When you fail to mark deviation points on a model, the error message is changed from “Failed to find intersection” to “Failed to find deviation value. Please Pick On Model”.

Report cover page

In the cover page of a report, the item, Scan Data, is added in the table.

InspectWorks What,s New InspectWorks 1.4.0

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Enhancements

Quick Align method in the Align stage

Quick Align method is added under Auto Best Fit in the Align stage. This option is on by default. However, if you want to just apply the Auto Best Fit method to initially aligned scan data without the Quick Align method, uncheck this option.

Show/Hide a Scan and/or a Body in the Align stage

Show Scan Data and Show Body options are added in the Align stage.

Color Expansion in the Whole Deviation stage

Color Expansion option is added under Options in the Whole Deviation stage. If there is no facet projected from the scan data to the design data, there is no color map either. In this case, you need to slide the bar to the right so that the no facet area will be filled with adjacent colors. The more you slide the bar to the right, the more design data will be color mapped.

Color Bar

Previously, the middle range of the color bar has similar color with the Allowable Tolerance color (green) and it makes users confused. Now positive color and negative color are clearly classified comparing to the Allowable Tolerance color.

Comparison Point

In the Comparison Points stage, a setting control for Tolerance is added under Options. You can input minimum and maximum of tolerance value for comparison points.

XOV2 Service Pack 0

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XOV2 is not just an upgrade version of XOV1, but a totally "New Product!"

Welcome to the newest release of the world’s most CAD friendly inspection software, Rapidform XOV2. Compared to Rapidform XOV1, Rapidform XOV2 is totally renovated to differentiate itself from other competing products as we did with the release of Rapidform XOR. Rapidform XOV2 is not a better product, but a different product from others. Over the past year, we have received valuable input and guidance from our users on how to refine and perfect this point-cloud inspection software application. the newest release of Rapidform XOV by ongoing innovations are our answers to their requests and suggestions. The highlighted “What’s New” features compared to XOV1 are as follows:

New User Interface CAD-like Intuitive User Interface

The way of use, user interface and job process are exactly same as those of CAD, and it works like a popular history-based CAD system. When it comes to scan data based inspection for CAD users, Rapidform XOV2 is the one and only answer.

Drastically Simplified Process through Smart Automation

You can measure and tolerance parts with just a few clicks. 30% mouse travelling distance and mouse clicks compared to other inspection software.

Fully Compatible with Siemens NX, CATIA and Pro/ENGINEER – Truly 3D PMI-ready

Rapidform XOV2 opens native files from Siemens NX, CATIA and Pro/ENGINEER, and imports dimensions and tolerances defined on the CAD parts. You don’t have to redefine the GD&T anymore. Rapidform XOV2 is the first point cloud inspection software to truly read native GD&T annotations (Product Manufacturing Information, PMI) from these CAD applications.

Feature-by-feature Parametric Inspection

Rapidform XOV2 is the only point cloud inspection software that works like a history-based CAD system, which means that you can modify any part of an inspection job at any time – and the software will update the results instantly. You can correct mistakes or redo measurements without needing to inspect the whole part all over again.

Industry-proven Scan-to-CAD Alignment Enhancement

When it comes to inspection, every calculation counts. Top manufacturers around the world trust XOV to measure thousands of parts every day. In addition to its industry-proven accurate alignment, Rapidform XOV2 introduces a new fully automated alignment feature based on geometry feature recognition.

Fully Compliant with ASME(ANSI) Y14.5B GD&T

Many professional GD&T targets are newly added; Pattern, Projected modifier, Simultaneous Requirement (SIMREQT), Symmetry, Line and Surface Profile, Counter Bore, Counter Sink, Bore Depth.etc.

Truly Supports GD&T on 2D Draft

Rapidform XOV2 is the 1st software of its kind that fully supports GD&T on 2D. Also, various methods to define a sectional plane are available such as Full, Partial, Offset, Multiple and Revolved Section.

Mesh Data as a Nominal Data

In Rapidform XOV2, a mesh data (tessellated CAD or scan data) can be used as a nominal data. You can easily define GD&T and +/- tolerances directly on a mesh data just like working with CAD data because all the geometry features on the nominal mesh data are automatically recognized in importing the mesh file.

Smart Dimension & Tolerance Table

Defining GD&T is much easier than ever through smart automation of UI. Also, a predefined tolerance table is available, which drastically improves job efficiency.

Complete Toolbox for CAD & Scan Data Optimization

Error-free CAD and scan data are definitely required to guarantees the reliability of inspection results accuracy. Rapidform XOV2 provides a complete toolbox for the preparation of perfect CAD and scan data; CAD & Mesh healing features, CAD & Mesh de-noising features and CAD & Mesh editing features.

Ongoing Innovation – Feature Enhancements

- Straight & revolving silhouette deviation from curve & surface body
- Thickness analysis in whole deviation, comparison point and measure

Overview

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Share and view inspection results and a multitude of 3D scan data and CAD formats with Rapidform EXPLORER. This free viewer application, based on Rapidform XOV, opens every popular 3D scanner file format, as well as STL, OBJ, IGS, STP and Parasolid formats. EXPLORER is especially useful for viewing the results of inspections created in Rapidform XOV. It displays everything created in XOV, including deviation color maps, dimensions and tolerances. With EXPLORER, you can annotate and measure distances, angles and radii on both XOV inspection results and any point cloud, mesh or CAD model. EXPLORER also publishes 3D models as interactive web pages that can be viewed by anyone using just the Internet Explorer web browser.

Free Viewer for 3D Scan Data and CAD Models

Open files from almost any 3D scanner, plus STL, OBJ, IGS, STP and Parasolid formats. Rotate, zoom, add notes, take measurements and capture screen shots.

Inspection Collaboration

Open, view, annotate and make new custom reports from Rapidform XOV files. EXPLORER offers linear, angular and radial dimensioning tools so you can take quick measurements of scans and CAD models as well.

Create Custom Inspection Reports

Open inspection results from Rapidform XOV and create custom PDFs, PowerPoints and Excel files with detailed measurement results and screen shots.

Open and View Huge 3D Files

EXPLORER is available in 32- and 64-bit versions so you can view files with hundreds of millions of points or triangles, or CAD part models with thousands of surfaces.

Publish 3D Models as Web Pages

EXPLORER publishes web pages with embedded, highly compressed 3D models so you can share your 3D data with almost anyone – all they need to view your models is Internet Explorer. Rapidform's ICF compression technology compresses models to as little at 3% of their original size without any loss of geometry.

EXPLPRER Specifications

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Supported File Formats

Rapidform Proprietary Formats

XOV(model), FCS(Polygon), PTS(point), RPS(Rapidform Point-Stream file), ICF(INUS Compression Format), XDL(XOV1 model), XRL(XOR model), MDL(Rapidform2006 model), XPC(Rapidform Extreme Point Cloud File)

Standard File Formats

ASC, STL, OBJ, TXT, DXF, IGS/IGES(IGES), STP/STEP(STEP), Parasolid, VDA(VDA-FS), 3DM(Rhino Open NURBS), WRL(VRML 1.0/97), 3DS(3D Studio), Inventor Ascii, Nastran, Ansys

3D Scanner File Format

Open /Save/Publish Functionality

• Open XOV menu opens native Rapidform XOV files (.xov)
• Open menu imports all other supported formats
• Files cannot be saved from EXPLORER
• Files can be published in two Rapidform compressed formats:
- ICF – point clouds, meshes and CAD models
- Point Stream – high performance compression for massive point clouds
- Both formats are shareable via Rapidform EXPLORER or Internet Explorer

Documentation & Support

• A complete user guide is embedded in the software.
Click on the Help tab in the lower left corner of Rapidform EXPLORER after installation.
• Technical support is not provided for Rapidform EXPLORER
(unless you own a Rapidform product with a valid maintenance agreement).

EXPLORER 32 Bit

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Microsoft Windows Supported Operating System

Preparation

Product	XP (32-bit)⁽¹⁾	XP (64-bit)⁽¹⁾	Vista (32-bit)⁽³⁾	Vista (64-bit)⁽³⁾
EXPLORER		⁽²⁾		⁽²⁾

⁽¹⁾ Windows XP SP2 or above is required
⁽²⁾ Rapidform EXPLORER 64-bit editions are provied separately
⁽³⁾ Windows Vista SP1 or above is required

Hardware and Software Requirements

CPU

- Intel® and AMD® processors.
- Dual processors recommended for greater performance

RAM

Hard Disk

- Temporary file cache requires a minimum of 4 GB free disk space
- 10 GB or more recommended

Display

- 1280X1024 resolution recommended, 32-bit true color required

Graphics Card

Minimum:
- OpenGL 1.2 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 4 or above
- ATI Radeon 9600 or above

Recommended:
- 512 MB or higher graphic memory
- OpenGL 2.0 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or above
- ATI Radeon X1650 or above

Certified by Rapidform

Vendor	Product Name	Remark
ATI	Radeon 9600 XT Radeon X700 Radeon X1650 Radeon X1800 GTO Radeon HD2600 XT 256MB Radeon HD3870 512MB Radeon HD4850 1G FireGL Z1 FireGL V3100
NVIDIA	GeForce4 Ti 4400 GeForce FX 5200 GeForce FX 5500 GeForce FX 5600 GeForce FX 5600 XT GeForce FX 5700 GeForce FX Go 5200 GeForce FX Go 5700 GeForce 6600 GeForce Go 7400 GeForce 7800 GTX GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB GeForce 8800 GT 256MB GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
NVIDIA	Quadro FX 500 Quadro FX 540 Quadro FX Go 1400 Quadro FX1500 256MB Quadro FX 3500 Quadro FX 4500	The Quadro series must be set the Application Profile to SolidWorks in its property.

Not Recommended

Other

- DVD drive
- 3 button mouse with scroll
- 17" monitor or above recommended
- Sound card
- Keyboard
- Network card
- Microsoft Excel 2003 or 2007
- Internet Explorer version 7.x or higher
- Adobe Acrobat version 5.x or higher

EXPLORER 64 Bit

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Microsoft Windows Supported Operating System

Preparation

Product	XP (32-bit)⁽¹⁾	XP (64-bit)⁽¹⁾	Vista (32-bit)⁽²⁾	Vista (64-bit)⁽²⁾
EXPLORER

⁽¹⁾ Windows XP SP2 or above is required
⁽²⁾ Windows Vista SP1 or above is required

Hardware and Software Requirements

CPU

- Intel® and AMD® processors.
- Dual processors recommended for greater performance

RAM

Hard Disk

- Temporary file cache requires a minimum of 4 GB free disk space
- 10 GB or more recommended

Display

- 1280X1024 resolution recommended, 32-bit true color required

Graphics Card

Minimum:
- OpenGL 1.2 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 4 or above
- ATI Radeon 9600 or above

Recommended:
- 512 MB or higher graphic memory
- OpenGL 2.0 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or above
- ATI Radeon X1650 or above

Certified by Rapidform

Vendor	Product Name	Remark
ATI	Radeon X1600 Radeon X1800 GTO Radeon HD2600 XT 256MB Radeon HD3870 512MB Radeon HD4850 1G
NVIDIA	GeForce 6600 GeForce 8600 GT GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB GeForce 8800 GT 256MB GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
NVIDIA	Quadro FX1500 256MB Quadro FX 3500 Quadro FX 4500	The Quadro series must be set the Application Profile to SolidWorks in its property.

Not Recommended

Other

- DVD drive
- 3 button mouse with scroll
- 17" monitor or above recommended
- Sound card
- Keyboard
- Network card
- Microsoft Excel 2003 or 2007
- Internet Explorer version 7.x or higher
- Adobe Acrobat version 5.x or higher

Overview

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Rapidform Dental is a software development kit (SDK) that combines 3D scan data processing and CAD/CAM technology with dental diagnosis, orthodontics and reconstruction. Third party developers leverage Rapidform's industry-leading point cloud and mesh processing capabilities to rapidly develop and deploy dental CAD/CAM capabilities with custom interfaces and workflows designed specifically for their users. Combined with a 3D scanner, Rapidform Dental enables digital archiving and full/partial crown and bridge design.

Patient ID and clinic info registration

Rapidform Dental includes a patient database system, so each patient's personal and clinical information can be stored with his or her 3D data into a searchable database. Rapidform Dental enables each patient's case to be treated based on clinical history. Dentists and technicians can access data and make diagnoses within the historical environment of the patient lifecycle.

Digital teeth Impression

The dentist or technician captures a patients dental impression in vivo or in vitro using any 3D scanner,
and archives it for clinical and restorative purposes.
Impressions can be stored as digital files, without the need to warehouse the physical casts, saving space and storage costs.

Medical Analysis & planning

With Rapidform Dental, dentists and technicians can perform virtual analysis with digital impressions.
Plans for orthodontics or restoration can be digitally restored to control the denture result and quality.

Orthodontics

Rapidform Dental supports virtual fixtures and brackets on scanned impressions.
Virtual simulation is available in each individual patient's teeth environment.

Restoration

Rapidform Dental has design tools for:

Copings
Anatomical pontics
Bridges
Anatomical crowns
Telescopic crowns
Inlays
Onlays
Veneers
Abutments
Implants

Virtual hand design

Rapidform Dental offers wax knife, deform, transform, and scaling tools for virtual sculpting.

Quality Inspection

Simulation capabilities, including check bite and virtual articulation are available. Rapidform Dental can also import CT jaw bone data. Prostheses can be verified during the modeling process by checking the quality of tooth surfaces, undercuts for milling, and interference with adjacent or antagonist teeth.

Milling or 3D Printing

Rapidform Dental models are suitable for milling or 3D printing for direct prosthesis production. The SDK supports milling coordination, linker (model supporter for milling or printing) generation, as well as nesting.

Availability & Pricing

Rapidform Dental is available as an SDK for third party developers. We also offer a ready-made testbed version suitable for testing or production purposes. Pricing is based on development support fees, royalties and maintenance and varies by implementation. For more information, please email us at dental@rapidform.com

Benefit

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Reduced costs and improved productivity

Reduce management costs for dental impressions, casts, customer data archiving and data searching. Digitize impressions and casts to keep as digital models.
Improve the quality and productivity of prosthesis design by leveraging modern CAD tools.

Works with any 3D scanner

Rapidform Dental is an open system, so you can use data from any 3D scanner or CT system. With Rapidform, you’re never locked into one device so you can choose the best and upgrade easily.

Speed up the process and clarify communications

Save time and shorten the design and approval cycle by sharing digital data between the clinic, dental lab and manufacturing center. Clarify communication and reduce errors with numerical and visualized graphical information.

Easy to use even for 3D scanning novices

Rapidform Dental supports automatic features for 3D scanning beginners such as scan data batch processing, automatic margin line extraction, automatic medical feature extraction, intelligent pontic generation, and intelligent library crown load and adjustment.

User friendly working environment

Dentists and technicians can save customized parameters for spacer offset, spacer/coping/coping edges thickness, contact angle, reduction ratio for reduced crowns and more. It dramatically helps to reduce the time by shortening the mouse travel and keyboard strokes.

Most natural and customized prosthesis creation

Create the most natural prostheses with Rapidform Dental’s assistance with medical features and flexible modeling methods.

Easy quality monitoring

Rapidform Dental offers graphical deviation maps, section checks, measurement tools and occlusional simulations like bite checking and virtual articulators.

Customized OEM development and private branding

Rapidform Dental is available as a ready-to-go package, or it can be customized and branded for your specific needs with an open API (application programming interface) by your own developers or by INUS Technology.

XOV2 Service Pack 1

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New Features and Tweaks to Make Point Cloud Inspection Easier

Rapidform XOV2 introduced a new user interface that made inspecting parts easier and faster than ever before. Rapidform XOV2’s first service pack adds several new capabilities and tweaks that continue this evolution. As always, we listen closely to users and many of the new features you’ll find in Rapidform XOV2 Service Pack 1 are driven directly by feedback from our customers.

Expanded CAD Compatibility

Rapidform XOV2 Service Pack1 enhances its ability to open native CAD files from CATIA V5, Pro/ENGINEER and Siemens NX with additional features. The PMI Import Wizard now recognizes material conditions (MMC/LMC) defined on Datums, as well as notes, linear dimensions on cylinders, and angular dimensions on circular entities. If you define product manufacturing information such as GD&T callouts on your CAD models, XOV doesn’t require any re-entry of data.

Trend Reporting

Rapidform XOV2 now includes a new utility to generate trend analysis reports from multiple part inspections. Combined with XOV’s batch inspection processing capability, you can now scan tens, hundreds or thousands of samples, and the software will automatically open, align, measure and report on every part fully automatically. And once you have this mountain of data, the Trend Reporting tool helps you make sense of it all and spot changes in parts over time with advanced statistical features including USL, LSL and CP.

Enhanced CMM Simulation

Rapidform XOV2’s virtual probing tool allows you to virtually touch-probe your scan data like a CMM does in real life. Pick a point on your nominal model, and XOV will approach it with a virtual probe until it “touches” the scan data and create a reference point at that location. Rapidform XOV2 Service Pack 1 enhances the visual representation of this simulation by showing sphere and disk probe types.

Additional 3D Scanner Interfaces

Rapidform XOV2 Service Pack1 supports live scanning for more 3D scanners now, with liveScan interfaces for 64-bit versions of the FARO arm, Breuckmann white-light scanner and adds support for the Kreon Solano 3D scanner.

More Dimensioning Methods

With Rapidform XOV2 Service Pack 1, XOV adds a plethora of advanced dimensioning methods, including baseline and continuous linear dimensions, elliptical dimensions and min/max distances between circles/cylinders.

More Deviation Analysis Methods

In the color-map deviation analysis of Rapidform XOV2 Service Pack1, it now compares analytic geometries such as cylinders, circles, planes, etc. between nominal data and scan data. Also, more display options for color-map deviation analysis are newly presented.

Expanded File I/O Compatibility

Rapidform XOV2 now exports deviation results of each scan point to CSV and TXT file formats. Also, a table in Tabular View which displays measurement and analysis results can be exported as CSV and TXT file formats as well.

More Measuring Methods

Rapidform XOV2 now fully supports feature-based measuring method, which enables you to specify measurement methods from the properties of the geometry features, such as between vector and points, plane and point, plane and vector, 2 points, or 2 vectors and 2 planes.

Various Add-in Commands for Scan Data Processing

Legacy Features from Rapidform XOV1

2D/3D Triangulate, Find scan direction, Generate vertex normal, Reverse normal, Global register, Target register, Surface/Volume merge, Combine, Trim mesh, etc are available as an independent command with Rapidform XOV2 Service Pack1.

Faster Processing with Multi-Core CPUs

Rapidform XOV2 now takes advantage of multiple processor cores to speed up certain calculation intensive tasks like alignment and deviation calculation on millions of data points.

Feature

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Automatic Scan data processing Rapidform Dental makes processing 3D scans into digital impressions easy.? It automatically cleans noisy scans and fills in holes that aren’t captured by a 3D scanner. It can even batch process multiple data files, saving hours of work.
Best Preparation Rapidform Dental helps create the best possible preparation, with intelligent margin line searching and optimized insertion direction settings. Margin lines are automatically calculated, so you don’t need to draw them on the digital model by hand.? The prosthesis insertion direction is optimized by the software, and potential milling errors are detected and removed before milling starts.
Intelligent teeth segmentation and teeth scheme definition No need to saw individual teeth out -- Rapidform Dental recognizes each individual tooth shape and separates it with or without guidance. Each tooth is indexed by international F.D.I. definition.
Automatic medical feature analysis and extraction You can design or modify prostheses by eyeballing, but Rapidform Dental takes advantage of the accuracy and rich geometry information captured by a 3D scanner to make an optimized prosthesis. Rapidform Dental automatically extracts medical features like Cusp, Fossa, ACP and Jaw Arch line to help you design Pontics, Copings, Crowns, Telescopic Crowns, Bridges, Inlays, Onlays, Veneers and more.
The most natural & optimized crown design Intelligent Crown/Pontic modeling is provided in Rapidform Dental by using medical features assistance and crown library matching. This helps to create the most natural and optimized prosthesis.
3D modeling freedom for diverse applications With Rapidform Dental, you can design a variety of crown types including reduced crowns, anatomical crowns, crowns for bridges, and telescopic crowns. Material sensitive modeling is also available using pre-set libraries of materials.
Bio generic bridge connecter to enhance your smile line and durability Rapidform Dental’s bridge modeling supports all types of bridges, from basic 3 unit to full 16 unit bridges. The software supports jaw arch line and unique connector section templates for proper function and aesthetics.
Intuitive virtual wax knife Rapidform Dental’s virtual wax knife works just the same way as a physical wax knife, so it’s easy to manipulate, sculpt, transform and rescale prostheses.? Digital manipulation in Rapidform is just like touching the real thing, only better.
Check bite Automatic bite check detects interference with antagonist teeth and flags you if there are any problems.
Occlusional Simulation Rapidform Dental supports both static and dynamic simulation to check the function of prostheses.? Simulate biting and grinding with a virtual articulator that works just like a mechanical articulator.
Manufacturing Models made in Rapidform Dental are manufacturing ready ? just send to a CNC milling machine or rapid prototyping/3d printing system.? The software even creates supports automatically.

Specification

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Supported File Formats

Rapidform DENTAL Proprietary Formats

MDL (Rapidform DENTAL model file), TPL (Rapidform DENTAL template file), DFPROJ (Rapidform DENTAL project file), PTS (point), FCS (Polygon), ICF (INUS Compression Format)

3D scanner file format

VVD/CDM/CAM/CDK (Minolta), AC (Steinbichler), CBK/GRK/CWK (Kreon), G3D/CLOUD/VIEW/Surf (GOM) , HYM (Hymarc), ICV/SNX (Solutionix), IQSCAN (iQvolution) , PMJ/PMJX (3D Digital Corp.), PTS/PTX (Cyra), SAB/SAB2 (3D Scanners), SOI (MENSI), STB (Scantech), SWL/BIN/SWB (Perceptron), TFM (Wicks & Wilson), XYZ/CRS/LIN/SMH/BIN (Opton), PLY (Cyberware), BRE (Breuckmann), 3DD (Riegl), PIX (PICZA), XYZ/TXT (EOIS), NRF/NTF (NEC Range Finder File), RTPI/XYZI/XYZRGB (DeltaSphere File), 3PI (ShapeGrabber File)

Standard File Formats

IGS/IGES(IGES), STP/STEP(STEP), VDA(VDA-FS), ASC, STL, OBJ, DXF, 3DS(3D Studio), WRL(VRML 1.0/97), 3DM(Rhino Open NURBS), IV (Inventor 1.0 Ascii), ASE (3D MAX Ascii Export File)

Data management

• Digital impression archiving
• Digital work flow (Patient, Clinic and Lab information) archiving
• Digital prosthesis archiving

Scan Data Processing

• Fully automated one button batch processing for point clouds optimization
• Intelligent noise filtration removes outlying points to offset scanner error
• Fully automated one button batch processing for mesh generation
• Editable parameters of scan data optimization and mesh generation batch process
• Deviation inspection between and original point cloud and restorative model
• Industry leading alignment accuracy with the Rapidform Geometric Calculation Engine
• Automatically detect and heal errors in polygon meshes
• Perform complex 3D modeling on meshes with Boolean, deformation and engraving operations

• Measure surface area, distance and volume

Intelligent Dental Direction & Die Preparation

• Tooth shape detection and segment
• FDI tooth scheme definition and indexing
• Automated extraction of margin line
• Computed medical features (Cusp, Fossa, ACP, Jaw Arch Line) extraction
• Insertion direction calculation
• Analyze and remove undercuts to qualify milling quality.
• Individual restorative parameter setting and reuse such as spacer offset & thickness, coping edge & thickness, contact angle,
and reduction ratio for reduced crowns

Advanced Prosthesis Modeling

• Coping, pontic, bridge, crown, telescopic crown, inlay, onlay modeling is available
• Intelligent modeling in assistance with computed medical features
• Coping, pontic, & crown library supporting
• Private library addition is available
• A wide array of hybrid material modeling is valid such as ceramic border, metal border, metal + ceramic border, anatomical crown
and reduced crown.
• Measure surface area, distance and volume

Versatile Editing

• Intuitive deform in a wax knife method
• Easy to use transform, scale and rotation
• Smooth curve editing and rebuilding in automatic and manual mode.
• Editing in refer to medical features

Quality Control and Assurance

• Antagonist check by check bite
• Occlussional simulation check with virtual articulator
• Dynamic simulation in bite and grind mode.
• Collision checking
• Real-time simulation
• Graphical visualization by deviation color map and error depth display.
• Diverse measurement
• Report generation with 3D model and measurements

Preprocessing for Machining

• Up-to-data plug-ins of hardware interface can be found at
• CNC coordination set
• Work volume calculation
• Export a part as STL file

System requirement

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Microsoft Windows Supported Operating System

- Windows 2000 (32-bit SP4 or above)
- Windows XP (32-bit SP2 or above)
- Windows Vista (32-bit SP1 or above)

Hardware and Software Requirements

CPU

- Any Pentium-based or AMD Athlon-based PC

RAM

- Minimum 512 MB is required (1 GB or more is recommended)
- RAM requirements vary depending on the size of the model being worked on
- A simple estimate is to occupy 1 MB for every 10,000 triangles in the model
- In general, a physical memory for data handling needs two times of current occupied memory
(e.g.) Five million triangles need 500MB RAM for occupation and 1GB RAM for operation

Hard Disk

- 500 MB for program installation and more than 1GB free disk space is required for temporary file cache

Display

- 1280X1024 resolution, 32-bit true color or above, OpenGL 1.2 or higher

Graphics Card

Recommended

- OpenGL 1.2 or above
- NVIDIA GeForce 4 or above
- ATI Radeon 9600 or above

Certified by Rapidform

Vendor	Product Name	Remark
NVIDIA	GeForce4 Ti 4400 GeForce FX 5200 GeForce FX 5500 GeForce FX 5600 GeForce FX 5600 XT GeForce FX 5700 GeForce FX Go 5200 GeForce FX Go 5700 GeForce 6600 GeForce Go 7400 GeForce 7800 GTX GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB GeForce 8800 GT 256MB GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
ATI	Radeon 9600 XT Radeon X700 Radeon X1650 Radeon X1800 GTO Radeon HD2600 XT 256MB Radeon HD3870 512MB Radeon HD4850 1G FireGL Z1 FireGL V3100
3DLabs	Wildcat Series Oxygen GVX Series

Note: If you use ATI Radeon series, the panning or rotation in the application might not operate correctly. To solve this problem, Uncheck the Use Custom Settings option under 3D > Standard Settings in the Catalyst Control Center dialog box and move the slider to the left. If it still have the malfunction, uncheck Use Custom Settings under 3D > Anti-Aliasing.

Other

- DVD drive
- 3 button mouse with scroll
- 17" monitor or above recommended
- Sound card
- Keyboard
- Network card
- Microsoft Excel 2003 or 2007
- Internet Explorer version 7.x or higher
- Adobe Acrobat version 5.x or higher

InspectWorks 2.0

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Enhancements

InspectWorks 2.0 is based on Rapidform's powerful XOV2 engine, which is replete with the latest scan data based inspection technology. It enables fast and accurate calculation.

Supports multi-CPU systems and huge scan data
Produces accurate inspection results with an intelligent comparison between scanned and CAD features
Strictly extracts scan sections with an enhanced scan data algorithm
Reliably calculates accuracy according to industry standards (tested by America's NIST as well as Britian's NPL, and independently certified by Germany's PTB metrology authority as Class 1 accuracy)

Standard GD&T

InspectWorks 2.0 enhanced its GD&T calculation algorithms based on ASME 14.5 and its results are in common use in the mechanical industry. InspectWorks 2.0 has added the following GD&Ts in addition to those previously supported by InspectWorks 1.0:

Straightness
Circularity
Line Profile
Surface Profile
Runout

Intelligent Alignment

Previously the auto-alignment feature worked well if the scan data had a similar size and features as the target SolidWorks model. InspectWorks 2.0's unique alignment algorithm expands this capability by matching feature by feature between the SolidWorks model and scan data, even when the object is only partially scanned.

Updated Compatibility

InspectWorks 2.0 now works on 64-bit versions of Windows, and supports SolidWorks 2010 as well.

Improved Import Function

The previous version of InspectWorks could only import a single scan at one time. InspectWorks 2.0 supports importing multiple sets of scan data. This means you can handle and inspect several scans of your part simultaneously.

Support for more scan data

The following scan files are newly supported in InspectWorks 2.0; XO Model File (xrl, rwl, xov), 3D Studio File (.3ds), VRML 1.0/97 File (.wrl), IGES File (igs, iges), STEP File (stp, step), Optimet File (.opd), Nastran File (.dat, .nas), Ansys File (.ans), Inventor Ascii File (.iv), VDA-FS File (vda), Open NURBS (Rhino) File (3dm), Topcon File (.cl3)

Report Enhancement

Inspection report layouts have been changed to improve clarity and readability

InspectWorks 1.4.0

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Microsoft Windows Supported Operating System

- Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit)

Hardware and Software Requirements

CPU

- Pentium or AMD Athlon XP
- Pentium III 700 MHz minimum
- Pentium IV 2.4 GHz or above recommended
- Dual processor is highly recommended

RAM

- 512 MB minimum
- 1 GB or more recommended

Hard Disk

- 150 MB for program installation
- Temporary file cache requires a minimum of 4 GB free disk space

Display

- 1280X1024 resolution, 32-bit true color or above, OpenGL 1.2 or higher

Graphics Card

- Refer to the following link for the detail information www.solidworks.com/services

InspectWorks 2.0

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Microsoft Windows Supported Operating System

- Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit / 64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit / 64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit / 64-bit)

Hardware and Software Requirements

RAM

- Minimum: 1GB RAM
- Recommended: 2GB RAM
- Very large models: X64 processor and Operating System with 6GB or more of RAM when system resources exceed the 2GB limit of a 32-bit OS architecture.

Video

- A certified OpenGL workstation graphics card and driver.
- Refer to the following link for the detail information www.solidworks.com/services

CPU

- Intel® or AMD® processors

Other

- Mouse or other pointing device
- DVD drive
- Microsoft Excel 2003 or 2007
- Adobe Acrobat version 7.0.7 or higher

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Create Engineering-grade CAD Models faster. Make Real Features, Not Just Surfaces!

3G(third-generation) is true Reverse Engineering, combining “Shape Capture” with “the Design Intent” described in the history tree. Only Rapidform XOR performs shape-capture and then allows you to define the design intent, the sequence and relationship of the features you’ve created are recorded in the history tree. The latest update to the leading reverse engineering software, Rapidform XOR3, is a continuation of Rapidform's innovative approach to scan data processing and parametric CAD solid modeling. Rapidform XOR3, offering more than 350 enhancements and new functions, automates processes and provides complete control of the 3D scanning workflow.Work with more 3D scanners, digitizers and CAD systems, Work with billions of points, and Work faster and smarter! Faster reverse engineering with the new Rapidform® XOR/Redesign™3!

The Fastest, Most Powerful Rapidform Yet

Engineering-grade CAD Models from Billions of Points

A new out-of–core massive point cloud engine handles 10x more data
Real-time rendering of hundreds of millions point cloud
Handle huge size of scan data generated by long range 3D scanners
Design geometric features in detail within XOR based on huge size of scan data

The Only Software Combining 3D Scan Data Processing and Parametric CAD Modeling

New Feature Wizard™ cuts modeling time while making real CAD features
5 new Feature Wizards that complete the tasks in the blink of an eye

The Only Software sending Real Parametric CAD Models to 6 Major CAD Systems

"No Assembly Required" - The only software sending complete parametric CAD models to "6" major CAD systems
Transfer parametric models and the intact history tree to your CAD system, just as you designed in Rapidform XOR
liveTransfer™ to SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, Siemens NX, and now CATIA V4, CATIA V5 and AutoCAD
These are complete models, no assembly required in CAD. No additional operations required to rebuild a pile of individual components into an integrated model in your CAD system

Automatic Batch Processing of 3D Scans with WYSIWYG Batch Process Designer

Cut scan processing time by 50% or more

Updated Multi-core Computation Architecture

Faster processing with new multi-core workstations

New NURBS Surfacing Tools for Freeform and Non-CAD applications

New Intelligent Feature Flow Auto-Surfacing Tools with Smarter NURBS Layout

Beautiful, accurate NURBS surface models from mesh data in minutes
Automatically create, orderly NURBS surface models where the surface patches
follow the underlying features
Fewer, more neatly-arranged patches are the result
Downstream jobs such as FEA and CAM will appreciate orderly networks that
have fewer patches and are aligned to the major topology of the part

Enhanced NURBS Fitting Makes More Efficient Surfaces

Define sophisticated shapes with new control tools in Mesh-to-NURBS function
Professional level curve & surface modeling with sophisticated NURBS patching control tools
for demanding applications
Fewer control points and patches, and higher quality surfaces are the result

Great New Mesh Processing Tools

New Texture Mapping & Auto Color Adjustment Features

Wrap photos onto your 3D models and optimize color scans

The Golden Part; Mesh Averaging to Create Master Parts

Combine multiple scans to and build a statistical average to define your master part
Easy generation of an optimized feature from a set of several scanned features
Useful for handicraft models which are difficult to scan, such as human body and rubber goods
Extract a reasonable feature when you have patterned scan features.

350+ Upgrades and Enhancements

Rapidform XOR3 includes many more improvements and major new features