It requires significant effort to create 3D models from scratch. Fortunately, 3D scanners have greatly expedited this process, saving valuable time and energy that would otherwise be spent on manual ...

Undeniably fun: Now one new additive-manufacturing printer scans objects and makes copies on the fly. Announced late last week at South by Southwest, MakerBot's Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner turns ...

High-Speed Data Acquisition: Portable scanners utilize multiple parallel laser lines (or blue light sources) to capture millions of points per second, drastically reducing the time required to ...

The GeoTaker 3D scanner has been created to allow users to capture the geometry of larger objects and architecture, making it easy to transfer real-life objects into digital files for augmented ...

If you can 3D-scan it, you can 3D-print it – and Matter and Form has announced a super-versatile new way to do so. The Three system creates photorealistic, high-detail, full-color 3D scans of objects ...

3DMakerpro, an innovator in the field of 3D scanning technology, has recently unveiled the Moose Series, a groundbreaking range of consumer grade 3D scanners designed to revolutionize the way users ...

Improvements in three-dimensional (3D) scanning have enabled quick and accurate scanning of 3D objects, including cultural heritage objects, as 3D point cloud data. However, conventional ...

Got something you want to scan in 3D? It turns out you can use your iPhone with apps like Qlone, Scandy Pro, and Polycam, without any special hardware. With Apple rolling out Object Capture on MacOS ...

Epson America on Monday introduced its Perfection V200 Photo scanner, which features 4800 dot per inch (DPI) resolution and the ability to scan 3D objects. Mac and PC compatible, it costs $99. The ...

There’s plenty of different methods to build a 3D scanner, with photogrammetry being a particularly accessible way to do it. This involves taking a series of photos from different angles to build up ...

I actually wrote about this over a decade ago, but I found myself thinking about this once again, the fact that, in 1972, the ...