ICEM Surf is a computer-aided industrial design (a.k.a. CAID) software used for creating 3D digital surfaces for

automotive design Automotive design is the process of developing the appearance (and to some extent the ergonomics) of motor vehicles, including automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, buses, coaches, and vans. The functional design and development of a modern mot ...

and

industrial design Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in adva ...

. This software is used to create class A surfaces using the

Bézier surface Bézier surfaces are a type of mathematical spline used in computer graphics, computer-aided design, and finite element modeling. As with Bézier curves, a Bézier surface is defined by a set of control points. Similar to interpolation in many ...

modeling method. ICEMSurf was later purchased by

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. Its similar rival is

Autodesk Alias Autodesk Alias (formerly known as Alias StudioTools) is a family of computer-aided industrial design (CAID) software predominantly used in automotive design and industrial design for generating class A surfaces using Bézier surface and non-u ...

History

ICEM Surf, originally known as VW Surf, was developed by

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in the 1980s for advanced 3D surface modelling class A surfaces, visualization and analysis for use in the vehicle body development process. Later, VW Surf was made commercially available to other automotive companies and was renamed as ICEM Surf and a joint venture company ICEM Technologies was floated to market and support the software. Later in the mid 1990s post Europe success, the division was spun off and became part of Control Data Systems, Inc. whose first CAD/CAM product was released way back in 1978. For a brief period, ICEM Technologies was part of PTC and again was a standalone company. Since 2007 ICEM Surf is part of Dassault Systèmes .

Products

* ICEM Surf Professionalhttps://www.3ds.com/fileadmin/PRODUCTS-SERVICES/CATIA/PDF/ICEM_Surf_415_Student_Edition_K49-STU.pdf – The premier module for developing class A surfaces using free form methods * ICEM Surf Master * ICEM Surf Magic * ICEM Surf Realtime – Offers rendering tools for designer to generate a photo-realistic representation of the CAD model. * ICEM Surf Scan Modelling – Extra tools to generate model from point clouds or facet data. * ICEM Surf Advanced Tools – more advanced industry specific tools to create accelerated Surfaces, Advanced filleting, Gaps, and advanced analysis tools. * ICEM Surf Safety Analysis – Developed for safety and legislation studies during design to detect edges and corners on a 3D model that may cause injuries.

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Computer-aided design software Computer-aided industrial design 3D computer graphics