3D Systems Corp. has announced the 2014 release of its new, comprehensive reverse engineering, inspection, design and 3D modeling software line. The 2014 line of engineering software reinvents the engineer's desktop by providing the industry's most accurate and comprehensive precision engineering capabilities.

3D Systems is the only company that provides an advanced and complete set of integrated software that covers every stage of the scan-design-inspect-print workflow. This release includes updates to the newly integrated Geomagic products. This includes: Geomagic Design X, Geomagic Design Direct, Geomagic Verify, Geomagic Control and Geomagic Freeform and also announces the availability of new Dynamics and Simulation tools for Geomagic Design.

Geomagic Design Direct integrates reverse engineering tools with a direct-modeling CAD platform. The newest release delivers improved and easier-to-use 3D mesh alignment, intuitive preview of solids prior to fitting and wider support for scanning devices. Geomagic Design Direct is now outfitted with a Probe Sketch tool as well.

Geomagic Design X provides legacy CAD users with the fast path from scan data to their existing CAD software. Geomagic Verify provides users the power to inspect first articles with a number of contact and non-contact scanners so they can fix manufacturing problems quickly. The 2014 version makes part verification more effective and intuitive with improving the general inspection process, calculation methods, data management and user interface.

Geomagic Control delivers advanced customizable automation and inspection functionality for repetitive, large-scale metrology. The 2014 version delivers command availability via Python scripts allow even more powerful customization and automation, with add-in scripts being available as buttons in the ribbon command. 2D and 3D dimensions can be automatically created, and support for the MantisVision scanner is now available.