Getting point-cloud data to verify as-builts and quickly map out an interior space is often a matter of balancing time and cost. But new smaller, easier-to-use scanners are coming to market that don’t ...

Pepperl+Fuchs has combined laser pulse ranging and piezoelectric 2D scanning to create 3D point clouds. Adopting mems scanner technology from the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology ...

Version 4.0 of the Faro family of scanning software works with the company's Laser Scanner LS machines for viewing, administrating, calibrating, filtering, and managing large, 3D point clouds.

On one recent Texas DOT project, SAM scanned 48 miles of highway. Ultimately, it was a hybrid job, with terrestrial lasers collecting data beneath overpasses and conventional survey setting control ...

The technology behind 3D printers has become more compact, advanced, and affordable over the past decade, but the same hasn't been true for 3D scanners, which are vital to the printing process.