Materialise NV

Materialise NV is a leading software prodider for handling triangulated rapid prototyping models and running rapid prototyping machines, such as stereolithography (STL) machines and selective laser sintering (SLM) machines.

Additional recommended knowledge

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Products

• Magics - a system for repairing geometric data in STL form and producing supports necessary for rapid prototyping.[4]
• Mimics - image processing software package for 3-dimensional design and modeling.

Patents

In 2006 Materialise began defending their patent for scanning any part of human anatomy and reconstructing it using rapid prototyping techniques with a notch for the purposes of easy locationing[5] against Nobel Biocare for their dental implant technology.[6]