Case Study: 3Discovered achieves rapid design turnaround and easy reverse engineering with ANSYS SpaceClaim

SpaceClaim Helps 3Discovered Move at Start Up Speed

3Discovered is an exchange platform that connects customers, design owners and 3D print service bureaus to buy, sell and produce commercial-grade 3D printed parts. Facing startup constraints—limited budget, engineers with little reverse-engineering experience, and the need to work quickly from 3D scans or diverse CAD formats—3Discovered adopted SpaceClaim from ANSYS to handle mesh-heavy STL files and rapid model creation.

Using ANSYS’s SpaceClaim, 3Discovered quickly trained staff to import scans, reverse-engineer parts, edit and split models for printing, and produce storefront-ready designs. The result: teams generated “hundreds and hundreds of designs in a matter of minutes,” could reverse-engineer parts in about an hour and offer next-day printing, and met all customer needs without buying multiple expensive CAD packages—delivering dramatic speed, cost savings and scalability for the startup.

3Discovered

Gene Garbaccio

COO