Scribe-iT provides a true 3D-interactive modeling, digitizing, reverse-engineering, data capture, design and manipulation solution. The Scribe-iT product family integrates the most popular 3D digitizers and precision CMM devices (Coordinate Measurement Machines) with the top 3D modeling and animation tools. Scribe-iT combines precision reverse engineering systems with the very best in 3D modeling, advanced surfacing and conversion tools, interactive data manipulation, and the versatile digital content creation tools of MicroScribe-MAX™ (3ds max's Premiere digitizing solution (1996)). Scribe-iT and MicroScribe-MAX are the first of their kind to bring animation capabilities to precision coordinate measurement devices. Additionally, Scribe-iT incorporates the robust Surf-iT modeling kit, giving 3ds max, 3D Studio MAX and Autodesk VIZ users, the fastest Spline-to-surface capabilities designed specifically for speed and optimization in surfacing large digitized datasets.

With the Scribe-iT software solutions you can easily and accurately digitize 3 dimensional physical objects using popular and affordable 3D digitizers and touch probe CMM devices, precisely generating the data, geometry, surface and forms you require for your application. The operator simply places the digitizer probe on physical surfaces and manually or automatically inputs the datasets. Scribe-iT provides all the necessary tools to work with the resulting data directly inside of popular host applications such as 3ds max, 3D Studio MAX, Maya, Autodesk VIZ. Scribe-iT’s solutions include high-end productivity tools, like GHOST 3D’s proprietary 3D Cursor™ system, flexible Reference Points System (RPS™), advanced digitizing and 3D geometry creation tools, interactive inspection and measurement, and the powerful Spline modeling and surfacing capabilities of Surf-iT. Scribe-iT is designed to give 3D professionals, researchers, architects, designers and engineers a wide range of very simple, quick and powerful 3D operations for creating, editing, measuring, visualizing, and animating data.

Scribe-iT introduces the “interactive” aspect to 3D tools, enabling you to instantly manipulate data, cameras and linked objects so you can dynamically interact with your designs. You can even set scale and offset factors to use the CMM to transform objects at any scale – real coordinates, or even miles per centimeter. The built in animation features let you animate cameras for visualization or fly-throughs of your entire 3D data or scene. Designers, Architects, and Engineers wishing to digitize their mock-up or final models can provide interactive visualization to their clients by guiding the touch probe or digitizer through their models and watching the camera view update in real-time on screen. All the essential tools you need for the host application to work with your 3D digitizer are included in an easy-to-use interface providing re-design, modeling, and reverse engineering capabilities in one complete solution!

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The Scribe-iT product solution family extends beyond other digitizing, reverse engineering and design solutions, providing an interactive 3D design environment. Features range from Spline creation, editing, surfacing, Surface creation, Spline-to-NURBS, collapsing and converting modified objects to the digitizable state/alignment, use of any valid modifiers or add-ons 'throughout' the digitizing process, reparameterization, visualization, and animation, to measurement, automatic capture, CAD construction tools, CAD Design tools, interactive editing, reports, and more.

Scribe-iT is available in a range of support and feature configurations.
The feature differences are distintuished by the following products:

• Scribe-iT DCC - base package, includes DCC features, Surf-iT features
• Power Digitizer Pack - includes base package, DCC features, Surf-iT features, and ResErect conversion features.
• Scribe-iT CAD - feature rich, includes advanced CAD, Design, Measurement, Reports, and additional Editing, plus all the DCC features, and Surf-iT features

Notes: 
• Scribe-iT DCC is the base package, Power Digitizer Pack 1 adds conversion capabilities, and Scribe-iT CAD adds a number of powerful and interactive design features.
• All Scribe-iT products come with excellent reference documentation and new tutorials, making both features and techniques easy to learn.
• All Scribe-iT products also include the full Surf-iT modeling kit (which is also available separately).

• Scribe-iT products are available with support for all FaroArm CMMs and MicroScribe digitizers.  When purchasing be sure to specify the device you want support for, or look for the appropriate designation in the product description when ordering online (i.e. /FA is for FaroArm support /MS is for MicroScribe Support
• Scribe-iT's advanced 3D input, capture and digitizing solutions are now available for online ordering and download from the G3D e - s t o r e. 

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Scribe-iT CAD offers one of the most robust interactive CMM solutions for designers, engineers, and CAD professionals. It's feature set provides an integrated design, measurement, and digital content creation package inside of popular 3D modeling host applications. With this single solution you can maximize your workflow to produce 3D models, accurate data sets, measurement reports, conversion, high quality rendering, and data export to IGES, DXF, DWG, ASCII, an many others, all from within these widely adopted popular host applications.

Loaded with features for true interactive 3D design, modeling, reverse-engineering, measurement, visualization, animation, and more...

  • Incorporate both simple and 3D shapes using multiple creation/capture methods...   
  • Design with Splines or Surfaces.
  • Shape elements are captured with minimal points. 
  • Draw Curves or perfectly straight polylines using multiple capture techniques.  
  • Generate point clouds from surface shapes.
  • Scribe-iT Spline Curves convert to NURBS easily, or can be instantly surfaced with Surf-iT's patch and mesh/poly surfacing engines.
  • New improved tool panels - compact icons, tool palettes and settings. 
  • Reparameterize shapes during creation.

  • Unique and totally interactive data capture helpers provide the ability to create data in a uniform, cross & transverse sectional layouts.
  • Scribe-iT Planes are stored with the data set for future use.
  • Create planes by 3-pts., 1-pt., or picking planes or grids.
  • Generate, regenerate, or manually pick unlimited parallel planes for capture or snapping.
  • You can also perform multiple snapping and crossing functions at the same time.
  • Activate and Deactivate stored planes at any time.

  • Accurate measurements made easy with dynamic measurement objects, data reports, and export to spreadsheets.

  • Use the Measurement Manager to store unlimited measurement data, and easily distinguish between the measurements in the views or in the manager.
  • You can also view reports before exporting them to Excel.
  • Measurements are interactive in the views, and can be snapped to other data points.

  • Grab and translate captured data points and vertices using the device probe.
  • Align and snap objects easily.
  • Capture points and snap to planes and other geometry.

  • Scribe-iT CAD integrates the highest quality FaroArm CMMs, and Microscribe digitizers.
  • Purchase a complete G3D System (hardware and software) and SAVE BIG!

  • Scribe-iT CAD's optimally redesigned UI includes all the features of
Scribe-iT DCC and the Surf-iT modeling kit. Everything is customizable too! So you can create your own toolbars, keyboard shortcuts, and panel layout.

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Scribe-iT CAD is ...

... CAD ... 3d design ... reverse-engineering ... multi-prototyping ... navigation/visualization ... animation ... measurements ... reports ...
all with a precision 3D input device!
(and you can use the same data for high-end rendering, printing, and export, from the host application)

Consider a G3D System with Scribe-iT CAD today:
No other 3D Design integration dedicated to Microscribe/FaroArm CMMs offers this many features or this much productivity at this value!
That's faster project time-to-completion ... and you profit faster too!

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Scribe-iT DCC is a complete interactive Digital Content Creation solution for CMM type digitizers, offering 3D professionals a totally immersive 3D modeling and animation system using the supported digitizers. It includes a unique interactive modeling system, automatic and manual data capture for basic reverse engineering, Spline, and surface reconstruction, as well as manipulation and animation tools. Scribe-iT DCC has everything you need to make you and your digitizer a professional 3D production center. In fact, this is how the pros have been doing it for years. With Scribe-iT DCC you're not just digitizing, you're extending your creative modeling capabilities, and controlling the way the geometry is organized - perfect for data capture, design, modeling, visualization, animation and re-purposing your content. Additionally, for Autodesk and 3ds max, Scribe-iT incorporates the powerful Surf-iT spline/patch modeling.
If you are new to digitizing, check out Scribe-iT DCC or an integrated G3D System. No other contact digitizer solutions make it as simple and powerful as Scribe-iT!

Fast and accurate creation using unique Polygon systems, Spline digitizing/modeling (Patch or Nurbs), and customizable input commands. Flexible Spline modeling system incorporates Spline and polygon modeling tools and techniques. You can also alternate between the powerful proprietary polygon creation modes to quickly build precision Poly/Sub-Division type surfaces. Scribe-iT offers a variety of tools, techniques, and integrated features - truly flexible modeling and reverse engineering for 3D CMM digitizers.

Instantly navigate the physical world with the Scribe-iT Camera. You can "grab" the Scribe-iT Camera at anytime during the digitizing process, without interruption to your digitizing workflow. Camera movement is scalable based on movement of the digitizer and the user-definable scale factor. Rotate and point the camera to visualize your surface or the entire 3D scene!

Gives you the ability to animate the Scribe-iT cams and other linked objects in the scene using Scribe-iT animation controls.  This is the first ever implementation of animation support for the MicroScribe.  Scribe-iT animation was designed to provide you with means of interactive and independent camera animation for flythroughs and various kinds of visualization assistance. You can also link other objects to the interactive Scribe-iT cam, in order to animate any object(s) using the custom Scribe-iT animation controls and controllers (built into Scribe-iT). Supports TCB, Linear, and Bezier controllers in real time - all other controllers may be used by converting the supported controller to another host controller using "Assign Controller".

Use your host modeling tools with Scribe-iT's digitizing process. 
With native integration Scribe-iT works along side your favorite host tools, and integrates with many critical host functions.
This means you can modify the Scribe-iT object at any point in time during the digitizing process.
In most applications Scribe-iT's proprietary RPS Align feature enables instant and accurate object/digitizer alignment only when needed (fast, simple, and flexible). In other applications Scribe-iT's RPS alignment system automatically integrates alignment into the digitizing/modeling processes; and, Scribe-iT can also convert modified objects back to a digitizable state - either surface or Splines.  Additionally, in 3ds max or VIZ the object's modified history is evaluated with all results converted into a Scribe-iT object.  The RPS is automatically restored, so that you can continue to digitize accurately. 

This option allows you to switch to and create smooth Spline vertices as well as Corner vertices, which combined with new internal settings for Scribe-iT "Draw Splines" gives you much more control in how you convert ScribeItSpline objects to NURBS curve objects - it makes this process much easier too!

The new Scribe-iT Reference Points system actually allows you to Move or Rotate objects between digitizing sessions (you can even move the physical object and/or the digitizer and still align and reference between all three of these variables instantly and perfectly.  The new Scribe-iT Reference Point system supports the previous one, as soon as you re-enter the reference points from the same location on the original source object.

Scribe-iT's 3D Cursor™ allows you to manipulate pitch, roll, yaw and motion with realtime update in the 3D views
(adopted from the original solution: MicroScribe-MAX, also from GHOST 3D)

All accelerator key operations and functions can be custom assigned to multiple keys, toolbars and menus - for maximum customization.

Scribe-iT for Autodesk VIZ and 3ds max also installs the full Surf-iT Modeling Kit (included).  Surf-iT is an advanced and robust Spline-Patch based surfacing and modeling package. It provides unprecedented speed and quality in surfacing and geometry construction. Surf-iT meets the rigorous demands of being used in CAD, Design, DCC, Film character modeling and Video Game engine technology. In Film and Video production environments extensive comparisons have been performed proving Surf-iT's superior patch and mesh surfacing speed and quality, with internal patch optimizations yielding up to 50% less polygons than similar surface engines, but with visually undetectable results! Surf-iT patch surfacing ranges between 20% and 800% faster than Surface Tools calculating the exact same source object, making it the obvious choice of pro animators and modelers around the world.  Surf-iT mesh surfacing is even several times faster than that- invaluable for surfacing thousands of Spline segments, accurate product reproduction, or instant surface previews. 
Jump to Surf-iT product page to find out more

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