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Z CORP has introduced a portable 3D laser scanner, the ZScanner 600 which extends Z Corp’s line of handheld, self-positioning scanners.
According to Z Corp, the 3D laser scanners are easier to use than traditional 3D scanners due to their portability. The 3D scanners are designed to streamline data capture for reverse engineering, product design and [...]

North American design firm Stantec is leading a seven-firm team awarded a major contract by the United States General Services Administration (GSA) to provide 3D laser scanning and surveying services for federal building projects across the country. The contract is worth US$30 million over the next five years of which Stantec is allotted 50% of [...]

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Nov 5, 2009 – (3DNewsWire.com) Laser Design Inc., the leading supplier of 3D laser scanners for over 20 years, announced that Schneider Electric recently installed a Laser Design-FARO arm laser scanning system in its Cedar Rapids, Iowa facility. The system will be used for verifying plastic injection mold tooling prior to production runs.
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Using portable 3D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint that was previously excavated and built into the wall of a bandstand at a Texas courthouse in the 1930s.
The laser image preserves a “type specimen” footprint — an original track used to describe a species of dinosaur identified in [...]

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Nov 5, 2009 – Laser Design, Inc. announced that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has installed a Laser Design SURVEYOR WS Series 3D laser scanning system in the Materials Reliability Division located in Boulder, CO. The fully automated, CNC programmable system was purchased by NIST primarily [...]