Case Study: Leading Candy Manufacturing Company achieves 90% digital die design and faster time-to-market with 3D Systems' Geomagic Freeform

Bringing Craftsmanship Forward with Geomagic Freeform in Candy Manufacturing

Deltavorm, a Dutch die-maker founded in 1948, traditionally hand‑carved detailed candy molds—a slow, artisanal process that left design revisions costly and time‑consuming. Early digital attempts (3‑Shape scanning and SolidWorks) failed to save time because scanned models were difficult to edit, so the company needed a more intuitive modeling tool to modernize its workflow.

By adopting Geomagic Freeform with a TouchX haptic device and tailored training from Antonius Köster, Deltavorm established a fully digital design‑to‑CNC workflow, exporting directly to milling machines and sharing 3D PDFs for client approval. The result: design cycles shrank from months to weeks, about 90% of cuts are now produced digitally, annual project capacity exceeds 1,000, product quality and customer collaboration improved, and the team scaled up with rapid software adoption.