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| FARO Releases Advanced Software for Large-Volume Scanning FARO Technologies, Inc. has announced the release of FaroScene 3.0 software for its Laser Scanner LS product. The FARO Laser Scanner LS empowers users to digitize massive spaces into 3-D, action-ready data. Suited for large-volume modeling, factory planning/redesign, quality control and forensics, it scans 120, 000 points per second - up to 100 times faster than most time-of-flight scanners - with 3mm accuracy. The result is an image so detailed that it looks like a black-and- white photo, but in three dimensions that, thanks to FaroScene 3.0, one can use to instantly measure the distance between points, move in 3-D space and create CAD models for practically any application. New features for FaroScene 3.0 include: * Noise Reduction and Simultaneous Volume Compression - helps create high-definition scans more quickly. * Meshing/Surface Triangulation - Point-cloud information becomes faster and often easier to handle as FaroScene creates a mesh of triangulated surfaces from individual points, which can then exported into other CAD systems. With meshing, unnecessary triangles are automatically eliminated, yet the scan still retains surface texture, so the file size is smaller without large segments of data being lost. * Edge Recognition - This makes modelling in a CAD system as simple as possible. The 3-D grayscale data of the point cloud is used to generate an automatic edge model of the scan. Using this feature, edged objects can be easily extracted and used as the basis for modelling, then exported into other CAD systems in VRML or IGES format. * Visual Assessment of Registration Quality - This gives the user a visual appraisal of which measurements would improve the registration, thus taking a further step toward intuitive quality improvement. * Automatic Object Fit - Approximating a VRML object placed near the point cloud enables a faster comparison of the object to the scan data. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |