Why Choose PolyWorks®?

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Founded in 1994, InnovMetric pioneered the market for point cloud inspection and reverse engineering software solutions. InnovMetric is a privately owned company that enjoys an enviable position as the market leader in point cloud processing software in the automotive and aeronautic industries.
Today, PolyWorks licenses are at work daily in more than 30 countries, providing users such as BMW, Boeing, Daimler-Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Lockheed-Martin, Peugeot, Porsche, Rolls Royce, Toyota, and Volkswagen with the most complete, accurate, and robust 3D point cloud processing, inspection and reverse engineering software solution on the market.

The advantages of PolyWorks Modeler™ and PolyWorks Inspector™ software:

  • Meshes very thin objects and parts
  • Produces polygons that are more accurate than the scanner measurements
  • Supports very large datasets without point sampling
  • Most advanced point cloud inspection techniques for alignment, feature extraction & fitting and automation

PolyWorks/Inspector™, the flagship product, is a powerful module that uses high-density point clouds to manage the quality of castings/dies/moulds, and to approve manufacturing processes through prototype, first-article, manufactured, and assembled parts inspection. PolyWorks® software offers a complete toolset for comparing forms and profiles (part-to-part and part-to-CAD), and includes the most complete GD&T analysis capabilities on the market, as well as the widest array of soft gauging tools.

PolyWorks™ can execute entire inspection routines in one click of a mouse, thanks to a powerful macro-programming language that allows the easy creation of inspection scripts without any knowledge of computer programming languages.

PolyWorks/Modeler™, is a unique reverse-engineering module that produces highly accurate polygonal models and NURBS surfaces that are exportable to any CAD/CAM/CFD/FEA software for stringent manufacturing applications.


The success of PolyWorks® has been achieved by working closely with customers and developing hundreds of innovative application-driven tools that have led to faster and more accurate inspection and reverse engineering processes. InnovMetric's approach is focused on its users constant feedback and on the ability of Innovmetric's team to benefit users with the most complete, accurate and robust 3D point cloud processing software solution on the market.

PolyWorks® Supported High-Density Point Cloud Digitizers :

Laser scanners (mounted on arm, tracker, CMM, or gantry, or optically- tracked)
Fringe-projection systems and Moire
Single-point contact based or optical-based automated CMMs
CT Scanning devices
LIDAR and phase-based long-range digitizers

PolyWorks® Supported 3d scanners include systems manufactured by:

AICON 3D
API
Breuckmann
Callidus
Cavlab (StarCam)
CGI
CogniTens
Creaform (Handyscan)
Cyberware
Dimensional Photonics
Faro Technologies
Genex Technologies
GOM
Hexagon Metrology
Imetric
InSpeck
Konica Minolta
Kreon 3D
Laser Design
Leica Geosystems
MetricVision
Metron Systems
Micro Epsilon
Mycrona
Neptec
Nextec
NDI
Nikon Metrology
Nub3D

Optech
Optimet
Orus Technologies
Opton
OTTO Vision
Perceptron
Phoenix X-Ray
Polhemus
Renishaw
Riegl Romer (G-scan)
Scantech
ShapeGrabber
ShapeQuest
Solutionix
Spatium 3D
Steinbichler
Steintek
Surphaser
Topcon
Trimble
Vitronic
Voxelan
Wolf & Beck
Yxlon (X-Ray)
Zeiss
Zoller + Fröhlich
3D Digital Corp
3rd Tech

Plug-ins officially supported by PolyWorks® InnovMetric:

Faro - laser Scanner
Leica T-Scan - laser scanner
Perceptron V4/V4i/V5 Contour Probe
Steinbichler L-Scan and T-Scan - laser scanner
Creaform Handyscan 3D laser scanner
Konica Minolta Range 7 and Vivid 900/910/9i (white light area based scanner)
Romer G-scan and R-scan laser scanner
Nikon NMD and LC-D laser scanners

PolyWorks® Supported Probing Devices

Articulated arms: Cimcore, Faro, Garda, Romer, Nikon
Hand-held optically-tracked: Aicon, NDI, Nikon, Metronor, Steinbichler
Laser trackers: API, Faro, Leica
Manual CMMs: Deva, MZ1060, Renishaw

These lists are not exhaustive. PolyWorks can support other 3D scanners brands through file export. If your 3D scanner is not part of the list above, please contact us at support@innovmetric.com