Founded in 2004, headquartered in Ames, Iowa, improving access to CAD and other 3-dimensional data is iSEEK’s mission.
iSEEK’s work began with university-based research, supported by the National Science Foundation.
The work was commercialized in the early 2000s with support from John Deere. Trusted by global leaders, iSEEK’s notable customers include John Deere, Embraer, Peterbilt, and Bridgestone.
Integration with Leading Engineering Platforms.
Accuracy without compromise.
Seamless access to CAD and 3D formats.
Intelligence for similarity: Fast, scalable, encrypted search ranked by shape similarity.
Flexible search methods: By attribute, file import, visual browsing, CAD/PLM integration, assembly extraction, and even photographs.
Part and Knowledge Reuse Accelerate design cycles and reduce costs by reusing validated components and historical expertise.
Shape Analytics Analyze and compare 3D geometries to optimize performance, identify similarities, and drive innovation in design and restoration.
Price and Performance Variance Discovery Detect anomalies and benchmark alternatives to ensure optimal cost-effectiveness and quality across suppliers and product lines.
Predictive Pricing Models Forecast market trends and dynamically adjust pricing strategies using historical data and AI-driven simulations.
Attribute Repair Automatically correct missing or inconsistent metadata in digital assets, ensuring data integrity and usability across platforms.
File Retrieval for 3D Printing Seamlessly locate and access digital models for rapid prototyping, manufacturing, or artistic reproduction.
Matching Physical Scans to Digital Catalogues Identify and validate scanned components against digital inventories, enabling efficient part replacement, reverse engineering, and archival.
iSEEK offers CADSEEK — a suite of six enterprise-scale applications designed for shape-based search and 3D asset analytics.
CADSEEK technology empowers enterprises to unlock the full potential of their 3D digital assets — including CAD models, 3D scans, Digital Twins, and LIDAR data — through encrypted, scalable, and lightning-fast shape-based search.
This encrypted shape data enables powerful capabilities for large-scale analytics across industries.
Polaris is a Windows desktop application combining geometry and attribute search. Polaris is the go-to tool when searching for a design for possible reuse in a new application, to consider the cost of an existing highly similar part when estimating for the new part, to find which vendors supply an existing similar part, and so much more.
CADseek Advisor is a CAD plug-in that monitors a design session in a non-intrusive manner, and alerts a designer to existing similar designs only at points where significant changes have been made to the model.
CADseek search is now fully integrated with PTC Windchill and Aras Innovator PLMs.
CADseek Analytics provides a fully automated analysis of geometric similarity across an entire library of CAD models in order to find duplication, opportunities for standardization and unwarranted variances in price or performance.
Meta-data filtering for attributes such as material, cost or supplier allows slicing the dataset in an endless variety of ways.
Too often parts get separated from their packaging resulting in lost identities and scrapped parts. The Identify application solves this problem with photo-based identification using a standard tablet or smartphone.
The CADSEEK API allows users to embed CADSEEK search functionality into third-party applications. Common use cases include catalog search, quotation assistance, and PLM duplication sentry.
The 3DShapeIndex.com website is the world’s first universal index for 3D content on the web. The site gathers web content from sources such as Google, Smithsonian, the Protein Databank, and many more, and makes the data highly searchable with CADseek Geometric search.
CADSEEK operates effectively even in large installations. Largest installation is a Global Fortune 500 company where CADSEEK operates from a single server, with more 2 million models available to search by more than 3,500 users scattered across thirty global locations, and where CADSEEK is integrated with CAD, PLM and proprietary databases.
