Producing Geometry You Can Trust
QC provided an engineer for our project who did a great job of collecting the dimensional data for the parts to be reverse engineered, creating the CAD models, and producing prints for manufacturing. He kept in regular contact with me throughout the project, allowing us to quickly resolve issues as they arose. He was also very responsive when asked to make changes to the prints. Overall, a superior job.
- Paul,
Power Generation
Scanning Precision Internal Features
It's often the case that hidden features are more critical than the external, visible features of a part. When laser scanning is used to validate size and shape, what are your options for capturing internal geometry?
There are alternate methods for creating point clouds of internal features - such as CGI or CT scanning. Both can produce excellent results. Yet laser scanning can be less expensive and less time consuming, depending on the artifact.
Very accurate results using lasers are achieved when it is acceptable to section the part. The object's external features are scanned with fixed reference geometry intact (such as tooling balls). Then the part is sectioned in such a way to expose all of the internal geometry. The halves are scanned again to include all internal features. Then the point clouds are merged using the reference geometry from the first scans.
