3d scanning
AGT Robotics & Creaform Announce Large-scale 3D Scanning Solution — ScanMaster
AGT Robotics makes low-volume, high-mix robotic equipment, and they’ve partnered with Creaform, the portable 3D measurement solutions and 3D engineering services provider, to announce a brand-new, turnkey 3D scanning solution…
Stratasys and Creaform Enter Into Joint Marketing Agreement
Stratasys has inked a joint marketing partnership for the North American market with Creaform, makers of portable, 3D measurement solutions. Marco St-Pierre, the Division Vice President for Innovation and Technology…
Suspect in Gruesome Murder Sentenced to Life in Prison After 3D Printed Bones Help Convict Him
Although many individuals have privacy concerns when it comes to technology and its far-reaching capabilities, there is one thing for sure; it’s much more difficult to commit a crime and…
Leading UK 3D Printing Supplier Laser Lines Now Offering Evatronix Line of Scanners
The number one supplier of 3D printing systems in the UK, Laser Lines Ltd, has now included the Evatronix line of high-performance 3D scanners to their product offerings. Laser Lines…
3D Scanning & Printing Bring Neswaiu Mummy to Exhibit
Museums are among the leading lights in discovering the power of 3D printing to translate history into a tactile, engaging set of objects for their patrons, and now the new…
Intel Shrinks RealSense 3D Scanning Technology into Smartphones
Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) has been very busy working behind the scenes while the world has had their eyes on the incredible revolution being forged with 3D printing—and who could possibly look…
Tiny Chip From Caltech Could Revolutionize 3D Imaging
Three-dimensional imaging has a number of applications in bio-medicine, nano-particle characterization, security, robotics and gesture recognition. In the past, such systems have been either single pixel detectors or bench-top devices…
Structure Sensor 3D Scanner Update is ‘Like Autofocus for Still Photography’
“It is to 3D scanning what autofocus was to still photography.” That’s what Occipital says about the launch of their Structure SDK 0.4 and a new tracker update for their…
CoKreeate Teams with Adult Film Star Christy Mack to 3D Print a Miniature Mack Figurine
As many of you have seen over the past year or so, 3D printing is beginning to create what some would call the ‘next generation selfie.’ Gone are the days…
Smart3D: Perceptron Releases Comprehensive, Portable 3D Laser Scanning System and Software
Reverse engineering is the complete inspection of a product as it is dissembled and examined part by part for learning purposes, reproduction, and more. The process can be used to…
Cappasity Showcases ‘Easy 3D Scan’ Software for Ultrabooks at GDC 2015
Houston, Texas-based start-up Cappasity Inc. announced it will release its new software, Cappasity Easy 3D Scan, in May. Ahead of the full release, Cappasity will introduce Easy 3D Scan, the company’s high-quality…
Sophie the Stegosaurus 3D Scanned for London Natural History Museum Project
The Natural History Museum in London recently purchased one of the most well-preserved skeletons of a Stegosaurus known. It was discovered in 2005 in Wyoming, and using 3D scanning and…
It Takes a Village – CloneScan3D Scans and 3D Prints Models of Everyone in a Tiny Spanish Town
Spanish firm Grupo Sicnova says they can make you smaller, and they can do it very fast. Grupo Sicnova was founded in 2007, and they design, build, and sell 3D…
A Poetics of Failure: Sophie Kahn Uses 3D Printing to Challenge the Digital Era
In the mid-’90s I attended Philosophy graduate school when something called “deconstruction” was all the rage. In a nutshell, deconstruction criticizes a Western philosophical assumption that the natural and social worlds are objective…
ATLAS 3D Scanner Kickstarter Campaign: Software Developer Creates First 3D Printable Laser 3D Scanner
The progress of 3D printing and how it’s beginning to plant itself firmly as an everyday technology in the lives of many is demonstrated in Uriah Liggett’s motivation behind creating…
Fuel3D Launches Super Fast 3D Scanner at CES 2015 – Takes 3D Scans in 1/10 of a Second
3D printing by itself can be fun, but unless there is a way in which the user can import or create a model to print, it remains extremely limited. There…
How NeoMetrix Technologies is Reverse Engineering the World Via 3D Scanning
It’s part amazing, part scary, the ability for everyday people like you and me to turn physical objects into 3D computer models. Anyone with a 3D scanner, 3D printer, and a little…
Etron Technology to Unveil New ThingCapture 3D Scanning Technology At International CES Next Week
There is no doubt that 3D imaging technology is improving at an incredibly rapid rate. In fact, it could be argued that there has been more progress made within this…
Industrial Designer Creates The ‘Exo’ 3D Printed Prosthetic Leg with Aesthetics in Mind
Brooklyn, New York industrial designer William Root is using 3D scanning, modeling, and printing to create customized prosthetic limbs. Currently, he is working on the prototype for what he calls…
3D Systems Announces Their Capture Mini 3D Scanner Offering Smaller Size with Greater Accuracy
If you are at EuroMold 2014 this week, you better be taking your vitamins and getting your sleep the night before, as it is going to be an all-out extravaganza…
Studying the Fossil Record Using 3D Technologies and Reality Computing
If you lived in Scotland over 410 million years ago, you might have seen a creature called a trigonotarbid, a member of a now extinct group of arachnids. Assuming, however,…
3D-EYE Seeks to Create 3D Models of Artistic Masterpieces for the Visually Impaired
The capacity of 3D printing to improve virtually every aspect of living cannot really be overstated. It holds particular promise for the visually impaired in many regards. From 3D printed…
All Natural 3D Printed Trail Markers Designed to Keep You Safe — and Smarter
At the risk of sounding antiquated, I have to say it: “Boy, things have really changed since I was into hiking.” Having experienced hiking and backpacking trips with directional aids consisting…
Reconstructing a Newly Discovered Extinct Species of Crocodilian Using 3D Printing & Scanning
First appearing over 83 million years ago, were a species of large, predatorial reptiles now known as crocodilians, with their tough skins, sharp teeth and extremely strong jaws. Today, there…
