3D Laser Scanning                        
"Non-contact, 3D Digitizing" 

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How the Scanning Process Works:

The Laser scanner uses a Class I laser to capture an angular field of view.  The object is scanned and the laser light is reflected from the object, as the laser is reflected the scanner triangulates the points from which it reflected.   A 3D point cloud is transformed into a polygonal-mesh (a triangle is formed for every 3 points in the point cloud)

During one scan over 300,000 points are gathered and a 3d point cloud is formed from the scan.  The 3D point cloud is then processed into a polygon mesh (a triangular surface patch is created for every 3 points in the point cloud)

A series of scans are perfomed.  As the scan data is taken the  individual polygon meshes are aligned together to form one object. Depending on the complexity and size of the geometry being scanned this may take several scans to fully define the object.

Pending the complexity of the object some post work may need to be done on the mesh after scanning is complete.  Once the mesh is complete it can be exported in a STL file format.

Size of capture area: 10 sq-cm to 1.0 sq-meter per scan. scans can
                                       be aligned and merged to achieve any size
                                       required.

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Scan Data Points:  one scan measures up to 307,200 points per scan

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Time Per Scan: Capture 300 thousand points in a scan time of 2.5 sec

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Data Output:  standard file type of STL

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 Medical
Aerospace
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