Case Study: a leading reality capture devices company boosts simulation speed and product accuracy with Hexagon scSTREAM

Seeing into the future to develop the world’s leading reality capture devices

Hexagon addressed a challenge faced by its own internal virtual prototyping team, which supports the development of its reality capture devices. The team needed to overcome the extreme thermal and structural complexities of designing smaller, more powerful, and highly accurate measurement instruments, such as the RS6 laser scanner. The previous simulation process was slow and required a high degree of expertise to set up, hindering rapid innovation.

The solution was the adoption of Hexagon's own CFD Cradle scSTREAM software. This tool dramatically accelerated the simulation workflow, reducing model preparation time from a week to just hours and yielding a sevenfold increase in overall productivity for certain tasks. For Hexagon, this meant the team could react faster to requests, investigate more design ideas thoroughly, and ultimately develop the highly complex and reliable reality capture devices that would otherwise have been too costly or complex to create.