Geomagic has announced new versions of its 3D software for reverse engineering and quality inspection: Geomagic Studio 12 and Geomagic Qualify 12 scanning software.

Geomagic Studio 12 directly integrates with all leading 3D mechanical CAD packages and includes an entirely new report generation and publishing engine that enables coloured and annotated 3D models to be embedded directly in PDF.
Geomagic Studio and Qualify now support Windows 7 and have been optimized to run up to 40 percent faster.  A new start page provides fast and convenient access to files, frequently used tasks, and helpful resources such as a technical support knowledge base and sample data.

The most groundbreaking new feature in Geomagic Qualify is the ability to embed coloured and annotated 3D models directly in a PDF report.  This new feature enables a quality inspector, for example, to use Geomagic Qualify to create a PDF report for a design engineer who, using only the free Adobe Reader, can rotate the model inside the PDF, zoom to a highlighted area, or select a predefined view.
Geomagic Studio and Qualify 12 are scheduled for release in late May.  They will ship with both 32- and 64-bit editions on the CD, and support English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese.
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