iSEEK

About iSEEK

Search your universe at the speed of light

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Ames, Iowa, improving access to CAD and other 3-dimensional data is iSEEK's mission. Its work began with university-based research supported by the National Science Foundation, and was commercialized in the early 2000s with support from John Deere.

iSEEK's notable customers include John Deere, Embraer, Peterbilt and Bridgestone — trusted by global engineering leaders for shape-based search and 3D asset analytics.

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Technology Highlights

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.

Transformative Use-Case Scenarios

Industries stand to benefit from a wide array of advanced capabilities:

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.

Enterprise Applications

Highly visualized, fast, accurate and scalable applications for shape-based search & analytics

iSEEK offers CADSEEK — a suite of six enterprise-scale applications 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, lightning-fast shape-based search, enabling powerful capabilities for large-scale analytics across industries.

The CADSEEK Applications

3DShapeIndex

3DShapeIndex.com is the world's first universal index for 3D content on the web. The site gathers web content from sources such as Google, the Smithsonian and the Protein Databank, and makes the data highly searchable with CADSEEK geometric search.

CADSEEK Polaris shape-search interface showing a 3D part family navigator

CADSEEK operates effectively even at large scale — its largest installation is a Global Fortune 500 company where CADSEEK runs from a single server, with more than 2 million models searchable by over 3,500 users across thirty global locations, integrated with CAD, PLM and proprietary databases.