3D scanning

[Mark Lovelace]

I have a customer that I do a lot of 3D programming for. Most of this company's stuff is fairly simple, semi-organic forms and I can draw it pretty easily.

 

I am now looking at a project for them that might be better to have scanned than to draw from scratch. There is no one locally who has the equipment, so I am trying to find a contact, or at least find some information on what to look for. The piece is about the size of a pint glass, and shouldn't require too much resolution.

 

Any help that anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[BernieT]

Mark,

 

About a year ago I called a Roland scanner distributor and he demo'd a lazer scanner for us. He also scanned and surfaced a model for me as a demonstration for about $200-300.

 

HTH

[Mark Lovelace]

Intersting idea. Unfortunately, where I live it's hard to get a dealer to come out for a house call. I'm about 6 hours north of San Francisco, and there are no dealers up here.

[mayday]

Faro Technologies.

Laser Scaning, they did a demo for me and it worked great. dont know if they have an office your way but you could call. 800-736-0234

www.faro.com

[Fralex_francois]

seen this at MMTS in may in montreal don't know if they have dealer...

HTH

[BernieT]

A Google search for "3d scanning service" brings up a whole list of business's. Maybe some help??

[CAM-mando]

Mark, I just had the same scenario. The owner came in with a zerox copy of the actual part. (you know the part on the copier, push the button). He says "can you program this ?"

 

I spent about an hour on the internet and made a few calls and decided to pass just because the job was a one shot deal and probably not worth the time.

 

I was supprised how few companies offered contract laser scanning. I expected to find alot more.

 

I was looking at this company:

 

http://www.laserdesign.com/Services.htm

 

Cam

[Harryman]

quote:

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(you know the part on the copier, push the button). He says "can you program this ?"

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That's the stupidest request I've ever heard of.