I have been investigating different 3D/geometry/shape/model searching software to be able more accurately and quickly search our database. I am finding that there are several companies that claim to do this and would like to hear peoples experience and opinions are.Some questions:How well does it work? What features do you like?If you are using it why did you choose it above other options?Does it integrate with Creo? Windchill? if so how well?Anything else?Any other programs that do this?#Software NameCompany Name13DSearchITGeometric2CADSeekiSeek Corporation3ModelSearch??? (not sure since I only see VARs selling it)4GeolusSiemens PLM5Shape Indexer via ModelCheckPTC (though very basic, barely supported, and seemingly never updated)6BingoEnfinio7???8???Thanks!

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Review of 3D Model/Geometry/Shape Searching Software?

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I have been investigating different 3D/geometry/shape/model searching software to be able more accurately and quickly search our database. I am finding that there are several companies that claim to do this and would like to hear peoples experience and opinions are.

Some questions:

How well does it work? What features do you like?
If you are using it why did you choose it above other options?
Does it integrate with Creo? Windchill? if so how well?
Anything else?
Any other programs that do this?

#	Software Name	Company Name
1	3DSearchIT	Geometric
2	CADSeek	iSeek Corporation
3	ModelSearch	??? (not sure since I only see VARs selling it)
4	Geolus	Siemens PLM
5	Shape Indexer via ModelCheck	PTC (though very basic, barely supported, and seemingly never updated)
6	Bingo	Enfinio
7	???
8	???

Thanks!

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andrewhood

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Did you ever see CADENAS PARTsolutions?

cadenas.de

partsolutions.com (US domain)

We are a geometry search tool and parts management system that integrates with Creo and Windchill directly.

If you are going to Liveworx 2019, come by our booth, we are there every year and have a great partnership with PTC.

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JHall

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@LawrenceS

We did some extensive testing at a previous company with Bingo. It seemed to be pretty good, and identified a large number of duplicate or near duplicate models we had in our system. It did take a while to 'build' the index it used to search, but as I recall we did that over a weekend, or perhaps overnight. It integrated with CREO just fine and with Windchill. I did like how it would show you a group of models and the percentages of similarity between them. For example ABC.par and XYZ.par may be named differently but have 93% of the geometry the same. You could then evaluate a group of models to see if you could purge some unneeded ones (which was our goal).

In the end the company did not move forward with it, but I thought it would have been very valuable to clean up a lot of data that was in poor shape.

James

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STEVEG

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Lawrence and I work at the same company and we were both involved in the software selection group. We decided on ModelSearch (MoS) from Techsoft. We looked at Bingo among the others he listed.

One of the reasons we choose MoS was because it was the most integrated add-on to both Creo and Windchill at the time.

Lawrence can give you a more detailed response.