Alternatives to Geomagic (UNCLASSIFIED)

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Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 12:49:27 +0000
From: "Corner, Brian D CIV (US)"
Reply-To: "Corner, Brian D CIV (US)"
Subject: Alternatives to Geomagic (UNCLASSIFIED)
To: "morphmet_modera...@morphometrics.org"

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
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RapidForm is more expensive than GeoMagic, at least it was until GM raised its price. I’ve pretty much given up working with MeshLab, after spending a very frustrating afternoon trying to merge a couple very high density meshes.  Too many crashes and quirks. In the 3d Lab here at the US Army Natick Soldier RDEC, we used CySlice and related software from Headus (http://www.headus.com.au/home). Headus is run by Phil Dench & Jill Smith (Perth, Australia) who started supporting Cyberware scan merging & editing way back when (1995-ish). Phil’s software is very useful and more-or-less user friendly (we call it Phil-friendly). He uses his own flavor of PLY which cannot be read by MeshLab, kind of a pain but we wrote a little converter we can share. His on-line & email support is superb. Price is reasonable and within the range of most grants. He has provided 30-day trials in the past. You may contact Headus through the above link or Phil directly at archit...@headus.com.au.

 

For full disclosure, I have an on-going contract with Headus to support the software we purchased.

 

Cheers,

-bc

 

 

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Brian D. Corner, PhD

Research Anthropologist

WarSTAR

US Army Natick Soldier RDEC

 

Comm: 508-233-5317

DSN: 256-5317

 

**** Note new email address as of 25 April 2012 ****

brian.d.corner....@mail.mil

 

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