Geomagic Studio transforms 3D scan data and polygon meshes into accurate, usable 3D digital models for advanced product design, reverse engineering, custom manufacturing, CAD and analysis.
Geomagic Qualify delivers fast, accurate graphical comparisons between digital reference models and
Geomagic Wrap delivers fast transformation of point 
Rapidly build accurate 3D inspection data from probed measurements of a physical object and compare immediately to a digital model.Custom Manufacturing
3D software offers a return to hand crafting in a world of mass production
The words ‘custom manufacturing’ evoke sepia-colored images of a shoe-maker carefully shaping a shoe to exactly fit the customer’s feet, or a blacksmith shaping a metal shoe for a horse. In the last 100 years of the industrial revolution, custom manufacturing has been limited to privileged clientele and for the rest of us relegated to the history books.
3D reverse engineering technology from Geomagic, in combination with tools such as more affordable 3D printing and 3D scanning, is giving rise to the idea that custom manufacturing may instead become a part of the more immediate future: With these technologies, the possibility of mass customization of products without an increase in cost is becoming a reality.
Mass customization describes the idea that clothes, shoes, eyewear, all kinds of products, can be created to fit each individual and rapidly manufactured. As production machines for 3D printing and milling have become affordable and now hobbyist tools that can be found at someone’s house, so creativity has spurred more custom production. 3D software technologies such as reverse engineering tools from Geomagic along with automation that can be delivered through MCAD systems allow a 3D design to be rapidly changed to unique specifications. 3D scanning is rapidly becoming affordable and allows unique items to be scanned as 3D. These objects can be parts of the body, mechanical parts, artifacts, almost anything.
Innovators are putting these tools to work with a view to being able to deliver ultimate customer satisfaction in the products that they buy. Using 3D technology will allow a product to fit a customer perfectly, but without high costs, waste and scrap.
As the market and the tools develop so mass customization will continue to escalate as part of the buying decision. The future holds endless possibilities for customers to send scans of their feet for ‘the perfect shoe’. Hand scans for custom-made gloves, jewelry or handles on a bicycle. Head scans for protective headgear and eyeglasses.
