Archive for May, 2011
Handyscan 3D Product Manager Daniel Brown on 3D Scanning and Touch Probing for QC
By: Isabelle Roy
In: 3D Scanning Projects| 3D Technologies| Metrology and Inspection
30 May 2011Daniel raises interesting questions about the use of 3D scanning and touch probing for QC:
“Today’s 3D scanners offer excellent accuracy, are easy to use, and are fully integrated by all major 3D inspection software. However, three basic questions remain: When should a part be scanned? What features should be scanned? What features should be hard-probed? [...]
Clash of the Eras : When Dinosaurs are 3D Modeled!
By: Isabelle Roy
26 May 201121st century advanced technology to virtually reproduce prehistoric animals at Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa…fascinating! Besides, the project won an international award!
“However, the key element is the bones of an animal’s skeleton. That is where Paul Bloskie comes in, as he puts the bones on a special laser scanner which creates a high [...]
When 3D scanning can help the visually-impaired drive their wheelchair!
By: Isabelle Roy
16 May 2011Well…you can’t stop progress! This is a very interesting example of how technology can be beneficial to people in need – and not only for businesses trying to make money.
“The chair’s been tested by Daniel Innala Ahlmark, a prospective graduate student in the research project, and himself visually impaired. He tried it out in a [...]
Wow! This is actually really good news.
We have had our 2nd best quarter in history, with $8.2 million sales and a YOY growth of 56%. The month of March alone was SPEC-TA-CU-LAR, with 54% of the total revenues.
Overall Creaform technologies sales and 3D Engineering services are doing great with respectively 77% and 51% growth over Q1 [...]
Creaform helps students at Concordia University in Montreal to solve a specific design challenge
By: Isabelle Roy
In: 3D Scanning Projects| Design and Engineering| Education| Reverse engineering
6 May 2011This is amazing what passionnate and brillant undergraduate engineering students can do when they put their mind to something (in this case, the creation a hybrid of a Volkswagen Jetta and a Yamaha motorcycle).
Read the complete story!
3e édition de la Journée de la métrologie en aérospatiale – un franc succès!
By: Isabelle Roy
2 May 2011Jeudi dernier, 130 personnes du domaine de la métrologie se sont réunies à l’École Polytechnique de Montréal pour assister aux conférences données dans le cadre de la 3e Journée de la métrologie en aérospatiale, organisée par Creaform.
Plusieurs conférences y ont été présentées par des experts de la métrologie provenant d’organisations renommées telles que l’École Polytechnique de Montréal, [...]
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- Isabelle Roy: Es posible exportar .txt archivos con X, Y, Z coordenadas, así: 0.01306962 -0.02769774 0.0 [...]
- Isabelle Roy: Hello! Yes, in theory it can, but of course, the size of the space between the reference points wil [...]
- Buy Oranges: I?e read several good stuff here. Definitely worth bookmarking for revisiting. I wonder how much eff [...]
- pedro gonzalez: quisiera saber en que formato esta la geometría, y cual es la posibilidad de pasarlo al formato CAD [...]
- P K KRISHNAN: Will the HandyPROBE be able to align an machine whose reference points are 600 M M apart?If so what [...]
- Popcorn & Soda Time! New HandyPROBE and MetraSCAN 3D Videos!
- Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium: improving analysis methods with the Handyscan 3D
- When Go!SCAN 3D meets crab!
- We even help scan… mastodons!
- Creaform and Bonhomme Carnaval – Together Once Again!
- Pipecheck is in the (big) news!
- Put Us to the Test…Once More!
- Simplifying inspection while increasing precision – How Olympus makes the most out of their HandyPROBE!
- Test driving the Go!SCAN 3D
- The Go!SCAN 3D Featured on Quality Digest’s LIVE TechCorner