Fact Sheet 2

Cyberscanning Objects

Here is the sort of object that we would scan with our in-house laser scanner. It may or may not be like the object you wish to create a computer model of, but provides an example of the 'standard' scale of model that is usually provided for scanning.

Our scanner can also scan bigger objects such as animatronics and it's portable nature means that we can fit the system into the back of a standard sized estate car and transport it to the location of the model that needs to be scanned.

Thus we can provide a scanning service even if your maquette or animatronic is too large to conveniently transport to us.

The system uses a laser to register thousands of points on the surface of the object but there are some types of surfaces a laser has problems registering: fur, hair and any other substance that changes form are difficult to capture, but rubber, plaster, clay or any other modelling material is fine. We can scan transparent and even reflective mirrored surfaces by coating the object with a fine powder - a technique that we can utilise to capture some types of hair and fur if the model or animatronic can be powdered without damage.

The scanner is accurate to 0.25mm which means we can capture details down to 0.25mm in size. This is the highest accuracy available from standard Cyberscanning techniques. By using a laser we can capture much finer detail than photogrammetry-based systems. The system can go over the same surface feature again and again to gather more detail. Also because our scanners can move around the object they miss very little of the surface unlike other scanners which require an 'offset' (i.e. a minimum distance from the object that the scanner needs to work - say 1000mm)

 

Q: What dos this mean?
A: Well We can cyber scan your object and give you a 3d computer model of it in various 3d files formats and at multiple levels of detail. See Here