Technology Services

Materialise has a long tradition of using its software products to accomplish tasks once thought impossible. Thanks to our Engineering Services, you can now benefit from this expertise as well. Whether you work in the CAE, Medical, or RP&M industries, we can apply Materialise software and know-how at any stage in the process to assist you in completing your projects successfully.

Why invest precious time and energy when our knowledge can provide the solution for you?

What can we do for you?

Get accurate digital replicas of your physical parts

We offer optical and technical CT scanning (from micro to high voltage technical CT) to digitise your physical parts. Our extensive know-how allows us to select the scanning equipment and parameters that provide the most optimal price/quality solution for your projects.

Save weeks in geometry healing and reconstruction
As the experts in data handling and healing, we can easily fix, modify or reconstruct all native and non-native CAD data, or scan data and CFD/FEA meshes. By applying a combination of Materialise software products, holes, missing geometry, double triangles or self-intersections will no longer hinder your progress, saving enormous amounts of time.

• Meshing point clouds
• Converting CT/MRI images into 3D models
• Data repair: normal fixing, stitching, reconstruction of missing geometry, gap filling, creating water tight models
• Combining native CAD, non-native CAD, FEA/CFD meshes and scan data

Modify designs directly on faceted data
Employing the forward engineering concept, the Materialise services team uses software that allows direct design on faceted data. This means that we can directly modify meshes generated from scans or FEA/CFD without going through the process of reverse engineering the part, saving time and boosting accuracy.

On any type of geometrical data, we can apply design changes such as:

• Design & shape optimisation
• Design of missing parts
• Midplane generation
• Wrapping / defeaturing
• Design changes (Wall thickness changes, adding and removing features such as ribs,…)
• Controllable part deformations

Easily prepare your models and obtain accurate FEA/CFD results
Using the 3-matic remesher we developed in-house, we can prepare your models for FEA/CFD projects, by supplying high quality surface or volume meshes. The input can vary from CAD, older or other purpose FEA/CFD meshes, STL data to scan data. Extensive CAD assemblies can be wrapped or defeatured to allow mesh generation. By wrapping multiple parts, you can combine them and take out all unnecessary details, which greatly facilitates FEA/CFD. We also provide complete FEA/CFD solutions for your projects.

Modify your faceted data by converting it to CAD data Reverse engineering is the process of converting faceted data into CAD data, which can then be modified in CAD packages. The standard output format that we provide is IGES. If you need to modify your faceted data in a CAD package, we can easily convert it to IGES.

We provide services tailored to your needs

Shortcut to CAE: Revolutionise your geometry preparation process!

Materialise’ Engineering Services offer you a shortcut to FEA and CFD, particularly when you are dealing with complex geometries, such as large CAD assemblies or scan data. Faceted data no longer poses a problem to your analysis. We can easily remesh and modify faceted data, including Boolean operations, wrapping and defeaturing. You won’t need time-consuming, error-prone reverse engineering steps to achieve outstanding results.

Some examples of the services we provide:
• Underhood airflow simulation from a large CAD assembly
• Comparison between CAD and manufactured parts
• Direct conversion from scan to FEA
• Creation of high quality surface and volume meshes
• Exterior airflow simulation on scan data (e.g. of a truck)

Advancing Biomedical R&D: Upgrade your R&D to realistic, accurate models and even patient specific data!

The Materialise mission statement expresses our concern for improvement of the quality of life. Hence we are proud to provide engineering services for biomedical applications. Employing our latest technologies and software products, we can assist you in carrying out research projects that previously were time-consuming, costly or simply not possible.

• Segmentation of MRI or CT images and conversion into 3D models
• Scanning and scan repair
• Preprocessing for FEA/CFD
• Implant stability, bone stresses, and other finite element analyses
• Cardiac blood flow, airway gas flows, and other CFD analyses
• Personalised implant and surgical guide design
• Creation of parts ready for manufacturing
• Conversion of faceted data into IGES
• Supplying 3D models from our medical database

Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing: Creating the impossible

Materialise has over 15 years’ experience with RP&M, allowing us to offer in-depth services in the RP&M market. We can fix, prepare and modify your geometry so that it is ready for rapid prototyping. We specialise in providing solutions for your most complex RP&M projects. Furthermore, we can build your part using our extensive machine park!

Some typical RP&M services that we provide are:

• File repair
• Creating complex cuts to split large parts
• Adding reinforcement structures
• Part modifications directly on STL

10 good reasons to choose Engineering Services

1. Increase the accuracy of your projects
2. Save time and money
3. Carry out projects that were previously thought impossible
4. Benefit from our professional craftsmanship and expertise
5. Speed up project turnaround times (conversions, design changes, advanced repair, etc.)
6. Get help from the experts in meeting your deadlines
7. Obtain immediate results without training or learning curve
8. Reduce process times (decrease time to market)
9. Analyse physical objects when no CAD is available
10. Get detailed feedback on how the project was performed