3D Optical Digitizers
Patterned light is projected onto subjects; deformation is recorded by an off-set camera. Triangulation calculates a 3D mesh. Fast, accurate and adaptable for human portraiture.
3D Laser Scanners
A laser line moves over subjects' surfaces; an off-set camera records deformation. Triangulation calculates a 3D mesh. Slower, but higher accuracy enabled for static objects.
3D Mechanical Digitizers
Mechanical arms physically probe objects, guided by the user; points are recorded on the surface of subjects. Intuitive but slow. Unsuitable for delicate objects.
3D Scanning software
View, edit and export scan data efficiently and accurately. Triangulation, registration and merging algorithms, polygon editing, CAD conversion, model export for web viewing.
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rapidform2006 is a comprehensive suite of tools designed
to convert real-world data from 3D scanning devices into high quality, accurate
and useful data for a variety of applications. From reverse engineering parts
for CAD/CAM to detailed quality inspection reports to cosmetic surgery planning,
RapidForm is the world's number one software for 3D scanning.
Accuracy: Rapidform has been tested and certified
by the German PTB metrology and certified that RapidForm would not introduce
inaccuracies in a model greater than 0.1 um in length feature and 0.1”
in angular features. The US equivalent of PTB, NIST has also verified the
accuracy of Rapidform. NIST has verified that RapidForm will not introduce
inaccuracies into a model greater than 3.2 x 10-8 microns and 1.1 x 10-7 arc
seconds.
Feature Richness: RapidForm is the only product
in the market today that provides the end user with rich Feature-Based Reverse
Modelling functionality that is unparalleled by even some CAD applications.
The ability for the software to automatically recognize cylinders, cones,
and other analytic features from polygons has proven to be a significant time
saving feature for users.
Extendibility: Utilizing the RapidForm API
can significantly increase the power and speed for most users. The API allows
for the automation of virtually all menu selections inside the software as
well as the ability to customize the application to fit a specific organisation’s
need.
Customer Focus: INUS Technology recognizes
that customers drive the market. INUS is focused on addressing customer requirements
and needs. Much of the functionality acailable in RapidForm 2006 is a direct
result of customer feedback regarding feature requirements and specific custom
solutions.
rapidform2006 is available as 9 different
workbenches that cover specific workflows in the processing of 3D data:
The RapidForm Scan Workbench allows users to
clean up data from scanners, align multiple point clouds to each other using
our industry-leading registration algorithms, triangulate the point clouds into
polygon meshes and merge multiple scan shots into one complete 3D model.
complete set of functionalities for processing native
3D
scan data and building up initial polygonal model
Capabilities/Benefits:
Redundant Point Removal
Noise Filtration
Curvature based and Uniform Point Sampling
Point Smoothing
Polygon Mesh Creation
Intelligent Registration
Point Cloud & Polygon Merging
Polygon Workbench
The Polygon Workbench offers the most comprehensive
set of functionalities available to manipulate and prepare polygon mesh models
for a variety of applications. It includes virtually every tool needed to create
high quality polygon meshes for rapid prototyping, 3D graphics, or downstream
applications like NURBS surfacing. RapidForm's powerful hole filling algorithms
intelligently fill in missing data, and several methods for surface smoothing
can repair common errors in 3D scan data. A plethora of 3D measurements can
be taken, including surface area, distance, volume and others.
guarantee class-A polygon model from native 3D scan
data
Capabilities/Benefits:
Surface Smoothing
Hole Filling
Decimation
Point Smoothing
Virtual Sculpting & Freeform Deformation
Remeshing
Subdivision
Polygon Morphing
3D Data Compression & Publishing
Welding
Trim Meshes by Curves
Divide & Mirror
Offset Polygon Mesh
Fit Meshes to Point Clouds, Meshes or NURBS Surfaces
Fit Regions to Primitives
Engrave Images & Text
Polygon Template
Find Medial Axis
Color Workbench
The rapidform2006 Color Workbench offers the
most advanced 3D scan data colour management. Using Photoshop-like colour and
texture editing features, users can create perfect 3D colour models of any object.
Digital photographs or any 2D bitmap image can be mapped onto a 3D model in
RapidForm, making any 3D scanner a colour scanner. Users can collect accurate
geometry from 3D scanning devices, then apply accurate photographs to optimized
models in RapidForm for the best possible colour/textured models.
RapidForm offers color management, including
virtual painting, blurring, smoothing and more. Text can be added to any model,
and brightness and contrast can be adjusted to achieve the perfect photorealistic
3D model.
ultimate solution for 3D photography
Capabilities/Benefits:
Texture Preservation
Texture Editing on 3D Model
Real-time 3D Painting Tool
Sophisticated Texture Mapping
Texture Duplication
Texture Conversion into Vertex Color or Vice-versa
Curve Workbench
The Curve workbench allows NURBS curves (splines)
to be created on a polygon mesh in a variety of ways. The ability to create
curves that are tightly mated to the polygon mesh allows the quick design of
a custom curve network, perfect for polygon-fit freeform surfacing in rapidform2006,
or for export to CAD for further design and modification.
CAD-like curve design directly on polygon model in
a variety of ways
Capabilities/Benefits:
Interpolation Curves
Feature-based Curves
Slice Curves
Curve Template
Point-fitting Curves
Curve Deformation
Global Curve Trimming
Curve Tessellation
Curve Analysis
Silhouette Curves
Various Curve Design Tools
Surface Workbench
RapidForm's surface workbench combines the speed and ease of
use of autosurfacing with the accuracy and control of user-defined patch layouts.
It is the only software to combine automatically generated surfaces layouts
with user-controlled, curve-network based surfacing that reaches C1 parametric
and G1 geometric surface continuity.
hybrid surface modeling: polygon-to-NURBS, CAD-like
modeling, and feature-based reverse modeling
Capabilities/Benefits
Polygon Fit Surfacing
Autosurfacing
Feature-based Reverse Surfacing
Trimmed & Untrimmed Surfaces
Tangency & Position Matching
Surface Analysis
Environment Mapping
Blend/Loft/Sweep/Extend Surfaces
Continuity Preserving Boundary Surfacing
Surface Healing
Surface Smoothing
Advanced Surface Tessellation
Feature Workbench
rapidform2006 is the first application in the
world that quickly converts data from 3D scanners into true solid models for
a variety of CAD systems. The RapidForm Feature Workbench allows users to fit
analytic surfaces to feature regions on 3D scan data with just a few mouse clicks.
Once these analytic surfaces are fit, RapidForm merges them into a B-rep solid,
which is exportable to every popular solid modeling application. Feature-based
reverse modeling is a brand-new approach to creating CAD models from 3D scan
data, and RapidForm is the only application available that makes "solid
reverse modeling" fast and easy. This feature-based solid modeling technology
compliments RapidForm's existing suite of surface modeling tools, and allows
engineers and designers to take virtually any real-world part and bring it into
their CAD/CAM design system.
Capabilities/Benefits:
Design Feature Extraction from Scan Data
Sectional Profile Design with Scan Data
Solid Model Reconstruction from Scan Data
Various Solid Modeling Tools
Geometric Feature Recognition
Design Constraint Management
Inspect Workbench
RapidForm's powerful Inspection Workbench offers
a comprehensive set of scan-to-CAD and scan-to-scan comparison and geometric
dimensioning & tolerancing tools. Using dense point cloud data from a variety
of scanners, users can precisely align and compare first-article, prototype
or production parts to CAD designs or other scanned parts, quickly and easily.
A variety of geometric dimensions and tolerances can be measured, in addition
to detailed deviation mapping and cross-sectional analysis. RapidForm can align
dense point clouds to CAD data (NURBS surfaces) or polygon meshes using several
methods, including overall best-fit, regional best-fitting or based on reference
geometries. Once the data sets are registered, detailed deviation maps can be
calculated based on a variety of mapping methods.
Capabilities/Benefits:
Best Fit Alignment (Whole/Partial)
Datum-based Alignment
RPS (Reference Positioning System)
Virtual CMM
Rapid Error Analysis
Repeatable Custom Inspection Process
Manageable Custom-defined Color Bar
Extensive Geometric Tolerance Analysis
Annotation & Report Generation
Cad Data Refitting to Scan Data
Exchange Workbench
A wide range of data format support allows
you to seamlessly transfer data to subsequent works. Most of standard/proprietary
file formats for transferring points, polygon, texture, curve, and surface data
can be imported and exported from rapidform2006. In addition, about 20 different
file formats of 3D scanner hardware are supported so that a user can directly
import a raw scan data from 3D scanner system software. To maximize job efficiency,
a direct interface for CAD system is of course provided, which makes the interoperability
extremely easy and fast. It is rapidform2006 Exchange Workbench. The RapidForm
Exchange Workbench is a file translation tool that offers seamless data transfer
from major CAD systems into RapidForm for inspection. Using the Exchange Workbench,
users can quickly import native CAD files, removing the need for IGES/STEP translation.
3D Imaging Workbench
The rapidform2006 3D Imaging Workbench is a
user-friendly 3D imaging processing solution for the visualization and conversion
of functional and structural MRI/CT data sets into qualified 3D polygon meshes
and NURBS surface models. Using RapidForm's suite of 3D processing tools, dicom
data sets from medical and industrial CT and MRI can be converted into file
formats for CAD/CAM, rapid prototyping, and animation or high quality rendering.
Fast volume rendering allows quick & effective
3D visualization of MRI/CT slice data, which can be converted into polygon meshes
quickly. Using interactive thresholding, scalar color & transfer control
and 3D Volume of Interest (VOI) selection, users quickly isolate the right data
and with one click, convert it into a polygon mesh. The workbench's ease of
use and intuitive controls make it easy for anyone to convert complex 3D imaging
data into manufacturable and prototypable 3D models.
Bringing the Power of RapidForm to Medical
& Industrial 3D Imaging. The 3D polygon mesh models created in the 3D Imaging
workbench can be sent on-the-fly to RapidForm's other powerful workbenches.
Using the Polygon, Curve and Surface workbenches, users can quickly create defect-free,
watertight polygon meshes ready for rapid prototyping or NURBS surface models
ready for import into CAD, CAM, FEA and other applications.
This product has been discontinued. Please follow the "breadcrumb" links at the top of this page to view related / replacement products, or email us at inition@inition.co.uk to discuss your best course of action.
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ThingLab FAQs....
q What is Rapidform 2006 used for?
a Rapidform 2006 is used to process 3d scan data after which functions such as NURBS surfacing, reverse engineering, part verification and 3d imaging can be performed.
q What is the difference between Rapidform 2006 and the Rapidform XO products?
a The Rapidform XO product's core architecture has been re-written so that large data sets (100million points +) can be processed very quickly.
Rapidform 2006 currently contains more functionality much of which crosses over directly with the sister products.
q I do not need all the functions that Rapidform 2006 offers, can I tailor the product to my needs?
a Rapidform 2006 is availble is a variety of different 'suites' all of which allow you to perform certain functions without having to shell out for the whole package if you do not need it. They are; 'Scan Data Processing Suite', 'Reverse Engineering Suite'. 'Inspection Suite' and 'Premium Suite'.
q Is there an academic discount?
a Yes a 30% discount can be offered to academic customers.
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