(Geomagic: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) -- Geomagic software has been selected by Team North American Eagle in its quest to set a new land speed record by reaching 800 mph. Project engineers will use Geomagic Studio software to digitally recreate the 56-foot-long Eagle vehicle for engineering analysis studies to obtain true performance characteristics.

“Geomagic is clearly the leader in digital shape sampling and processing (DSSP), and its software will give us the fastest path from scanning to surface models,” says Keith Zanghi, director of operations for North American Eagle. “The accurate surface models generated by Geomagic Studio will be critical for simulating the factors that will affect us during test runs.”

North American Eagle has used a FARO Technologies photon laser scanner to capture the Eagle vehicle as a point cloud model containing 30 million points. Geomagic Studio will be used to speed, automate, and simplify the workflow of transforming the scan data into a surfaced model. That model will be used to perform computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite-element analysis (FEA) studies on the as-built vehicle.

Aside from the world-record challenge, Zanghi expects the North American Eagle project to yield valuable research insights in several important areas, including:

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