Revware Purchases Immersion MicroScribe Division

Revware's purchase revives a popular product with a world wide customer base.

RALEIGH, NC — Revware, Inc., a developer of CAD-Driven Reverse Engineering software and provider of touch and laser modeling solutions to manufactures and designers, announces its purchase of the MicroScribe® business from Immersion Corporation (NASDAQ:IMMR). The purchase is part of Revware’s strategic initiative to develop a broader catalog of products that provide designers and manufactures with the tools they need to improve the efficiency and accuracy of their efforts to develop new products from existing physical models.

The MicroScribe family of products is used to capture in real time, three-dimensional location measurements from parts and volumes as well as useful directional information. Combined with Revware’s RevWorks® and other available software packages, the MicroScribe digitizer is used for a wide variety of measurement tasks that result in the creation of computer models, collection of validation data, determination of precise angles, and a great variety of other physical measurements. MicroScribe digitizers are available in variety of working volumes, degrees of freedom and precisions to meet the needs of a broad range of customers.

MicroScribe digitizers improve the speed and accuracy with which their users collect physical job data allowing then to more quickly model parts and make precise alignments thereby saving time and money. Customers include Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies down to small design offices and machine shops, government agencies, and universities in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Middle East, and South America.

Revware was one of the first providers of software solutions for the MicroScribe when it was first introduced and so has many years of experience working with the product. Tom Welsh, Revware’s president comments, “We are thrilled to be acquiring this incredible productivity tool and look forward to furthering its evolution. The MicroScribe has captivated our imagination from its inception and we are pleased to have this opportunity to mold its future as a productivity tool.” The MicroScribe continues to fill a unique place in the contact digitizing marketplace as a cost effective desktop solution. Product is scheduled to restart shortly and efforts are underway to reactivate the resale channel.