PolyWorks Plug-in for Direct Scan to Laser Design Software

By DE Editors

Laser Design Inc. (Minneapolis, MN)  announced PolyWorks IMAlign plug-in for the company’s line of Faro and Romer portable arm 3D laser scanners. The combination of InnovMetric‘s (Quebec City, Canada) PolyWorks software for point cloud digitizing, dimensional analysis, comparison to CAD and reverse engineering applications with Laser Design’s portable laser scanning systems offers the convenience, accuracy, and speed of portable laser scanning with the point cloud data computing techniques of the software.

Customers who have a portable Laser Design scanner with PolyWorks software can use the plug-in to scan directly into the PolyWorks software package, which gives them enhanced graphical feedback of the scanning process as data is collected. When using the PolyWorks plug-in while gathering scan data from the Faro arm, the user can actually see the point cloud being captured from the part in real-time as the scanning process proceeds. The user gets real-time feedback as the screen updates to the user’s viewing angle as the arm is moved around the part.

This allows the user to adjust the scanning speed and approach while at the same time shows areas that require the user go back and gather more data.

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Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.