Metafold provides the Geometric Intelligence™ platform, an API and SDK for advanced 3D shape analysis of CAD data. This toolkit extracts manufacturing features, enables geometric search across design archives, and simulates physical tests digitally. The platform transforms raw geometry into actionable intelligence for faster design decisions, cost prediction, and manufacturability validation in production workflows.
Funding
$2.2M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Generating patient-specific STL files for additive manufacturing is a time-consuming process, often requiring skilled CAD technicians and specialized software, creating a bottleneck in manufacturing workflows. Traditional CAD, CAE, and CAM workflows involve brittle chains of different software, making automation difficult and requiring significant engineering expertise.
Solution
Metafold provides a cloud-based design software platform that leverages a proprietary geometry toolkit to automate CAD, CAE, and CAM workflows for additive manufacturing. Their Geometric Intelligence™ platform uses an implicit geometry kernel to enable fast handling of complex geometries and robust CSG/boolean operations without meshes or BReps. The platform simplifies and accelerates engineering and design workflows, reducing the need for highly skilled labor and enabling the rapid development of commercial CAD web applications. Metafold's technology facilitates the creation of custom CAD/CAE/CAM automations, replacing brittle software chains and accelerating the design and file generation process.
Target Audience
Metafold targets manufacturers in healthcare, sportswear, clean technology, and industrial manufacturing, as well as on-demand marketplaces and engineering teams seeking to streamline their design and production processes.
Features
- Implicit modeling for fast handling of ultra-complex geometry
- Robust CSG/boolean operations without meshes or BReps
- Design of high-performance lattice structures
- High-quality triangle and tetrahedral mesh export
- Simulation solver for rapid results on hard-to-simulate geometries
- Patented cloud data transfer technology for high-performance CAD experience on the web
- API, Python, and JS SDKs for integration with existing workflows and CAD systems
- Geometric feature detection for identifying manufacturing methodologies
- GPU Implicit geometry kernel
- Cloud-based asset pipeline