We offer a range of industrial metrology-quality structured light scanners from SMARTTECH3D who are a multi-award-winning Polish company set-up in 2000 and established to design and develop innovative 3D scanning systems.
SMARTTECH3D scanners are used across a wide range of industries but with a particularly strong presence in the archaeology, education, medical, multi-media, design and criminology sectors.
Support services are focused on providing customer service excellence.
Services offered from basic technical telephone consultation, through to on-site calibration, repair and maintenance and complex equipment upgrades.
SMARTTECH3Dmeasure is the only software available on the market that can smoothly handle point clouds of up to 300 million points while maintaining the colour of any multi-coloured surface. The 3D scanning of dark or shiny objects is also not a problem.
SMARTTECH3D are at the forefront of developing solutions for new applications in the industrial, archeology, medical and digital media sectors.
SMARTTECH3D is developing a growing reputation for high quality, innovative structured light scanning technologies. The range includes seven variants across four models.
Structured light scanners capture 3D surface data using a projection source, cameras, triangulation and processing software. The projector projects a series of parallel black and white lines onto the surface to be scanned and then the cameras take an image of the stripes on the surface. As the lines are deformed or deflected by the 3D shape of the surface, the resulting data collected after post-processing in the appropriate software represents a point cloud of the true 3D shape of the surface.
Structured light systems tend to be more accurate and repeatable than other portable scanning systems as they are tripod-mounted which leads to better results.
Despite these benefits structured light scanning systems are not as flexible as other portable systems and are sensitive to ambient light conditions.
When evaluating a structured light scanning system consideration needs to be given to factoring in the cost of a turntable as well as good post scanning software to manipulate the scanned point cloud data or mesh.
Also, the ease of aligning and registering multiple scans with the scanner software needs to be carefully assessed.
