What If You Could:

  • Create feature-based CAD data from old parts 80% faster than by hand

  • Create as-built 3D data from existing parts that would have been impossible to create by hand

  • Create manufacturable product designs in 10% of the time

How Our Customers Did It:

Jay Leno's Garage

Challenge

Find and fabricate replacement parts for classic and hand-built cars, some of them more than 100 years old, using advanced scanning and 3D tools.

Solution

Using a Faro scanning arm and Geomagic Design X, and 3D Systems On-Demand Parts Manufacturing Services, produced SLS parts in Duraform HST Nylon material.

Benefit

The retrofit parts from 3D Systems fit perfectly, and the increased strength of the SLS-printed parts means that it will be harder to break them going forward.

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Bolton Works

Challenge

Develop accurate, fully-functioning CAD data for existing engines for an international collegiate competition

Solution

3D Systems’ Geomagic Wrap® and Geomagic® Design X™ software take scan data directly to feature-based CAD assemblies.

Benefit

Immediate access to precise CAD data allows rapid customization of the engine by the student teams

 

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NASA

Challenge

Deliver complete as-built 3D data of NASA’s most powerful liquid-fuelled rocket, the Apollo engine, without any legacy 2D blueprints or 3D CAD data

Solution

3D Systems' Geomagic Solutions software for reverse engineering, combined with an ATOS Triple Scan and TRITOP system for scanning

Benefit

With an accurate, as-built 3D definition of the F-1 engine, NASA teams can immediately use the data for analysis, clearance and reproduction of parts

 

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