About ICEM (ICEM Web site)

ICEM Shape Design software suite offers highly intuitive tools to easily create, validate and modify any type of surfaces, from freeform surfaces to mechanical shapes.

Mechanical designers, shape designers and stylists will find within the ICEM Shape Design software suite of products an extensive set of functionalities supporting their surface modeling, editing and validation processes. High quality rendering will bring your virtual creation to reality.

ICEM Surf provides breakthrough technology enabling users to produce world-class aesthetic products in today's competitive, global markets. Acknowledged as the premier system for the creation and development of Class A surfaces, ICEM Surf bridges the demands of aesthetic designers and production engineers from visualization right up to tool and die designers.

The flexibility of ICEM Surf results in high-quality surfaces required in today's design environment, while substantially reducing overall design time. Product development teams using ICEM Surf leave the traditional process behind. ICEM Surf's integrated solutions enable users to implement a new, more efficient method of product development called Virtual Modeling. Stylists and engineers work out design treatments dynamically on screen and immediately see the aesthetic, as well as the engineering, implications of their ideas.

ICEM Surf also has special functionality to painlessly handle the input of digitized physical models. Surface models can be reverse engineered from ordered or unordered (point clouds) digitized data in a fraction of the time compared to other systems. Special diagnostic tools guide the user to form the correct balance between surface smoothness and adherence to the digitized data.

ICEM Surf supports the direct modeling techniques that optimize the update cycles in design and engineering. After creating an initial shape, the user can concentrate on developing the shape through Direct Modeling, operating on surfaces or even directly on scans (point clouds). As the scans or surfaces are directly manipulated, all diagnostics like cross sections or split lines are dynamically updated. With ICEM Surf you always see what you get.

By using ICEM Surf's Global Modeling function, whole detailed models can be modified in total – interactively and dynamically – giving the aesthetic designers an interactive tool to work out a design solution. With the new Unified Modeling approach, you can model all different kinds of entities with the same functionality, without even thinking about their geometric nature. Engineering can adapt structural surfaces to the modified aesthetic surface effortlessly through ICEM Surf’s Feature Modeling function.

ICEM Style is a revolutionary new software package for product styling and design ideation. Offering users an optimum suite of digital tools for rapid creation, ideation and visualization of designs in a single, integrated solution - for the first time.

With ICEM Style it is now possible, in a concept design tool, to design in a photo-realistic modeling environment. No longer are third-party, stand-alone visualization products required to visualize the complete design, nor a time-consuming wait for a static rendering to be generated. Modeling and real-time visualization for concept design can now be performed within a unified environment. Using ICEM Style, the ease with which true geometry can be modeled and edited means that designs can be created and evaluated much faster than with traditional tools.  ICEM Style ensures that only the tools needed to model and visualize the design are presented to the designer, thereby avoiding the complexity and confusion often experienced with the use of other tools.

ICEM Style is a stand-alone digital design tool.  It can also be used in collaboration with ICEM Surf to ensure seamless data transfer and earlier visibility of design data in traditional down stream engineering processes.

ICEM RevEng is a standalone, reverse engineering software package that, when used in conjunction with a 3D scanning device, provides a quick way of creating digital surface models of existing physical objects and making them available on a computer for further processing or for archiving.

ICEM RevEng enables users to efficiently handle 3D digitized data imported as individual points from tactile measuring devices, as point clouds or facet data from laser scanners, or from photogrammetry systems.

ICEM Vis is a standalone software package for creating photo-realistic visualizations of 3D CAD models generated either with the automotive industry’s preferred surface modeling software, ICEM Surf, or with other vendors’ engineering CAD systems, or a combination of both.

It can be used to quickly and easily compose and generate both high quality, photo-realistic static images of CAD surface models as well as dynamic visualizations for live presentations and design assessments.

ICEM DDN is a professional 3D CAD/CAM system covering all applications, from 2D design and drafting to complex surface and solid modeling, in an open systems architecture. Incorporating graphic functions and processes for computer-aided product development, ICEM DDN is designed to be used by technical drafters, designers, and engineers.

Thanks to ICEM DDN's modular structure, you only have to select those parts of the program actually required for your work. Plus, the built-in database allows simultaneous access to all data as one of the basic requirements for any Simultaneous Engineering solution.

ICEM DDN is an interactive system, offering a common foundation for the entire product development cycle — from the first conceptual design through detailing and documentation to the preparation of NC manufacturing data. The right combination of the various building blocks provides the optimum, tailor-made solution for every design, analysis, or manufacturing job.