3D laser scanner delivers high-speed colour

Faro Technologies has developed the Laser Scanner LS, a 3D laser scanning machine which delivers high-quality, high-speed colour scanning with minimal effort and cost.

Faro Technologies, a leader in portable computer-aided measurement arms and laser trackers, has announced that it has developed a solution for 3D laser scanning in colour.

"Faro now offers a uniquely professional and economical solution for colour laser scanning," Faro President and CEO Jay Freeland said.

"colour scanning is much more informative, realistic and has a greater emotional impact compared to typical black-and-white scans.

Now that we can provide it at such a small relative cost, any serious user will now be able to reap the benefits".

The Faro Laser Scanner LS is a portable, computerized measurement device that scans, digitally recreates and records all of an object or area's dimensions, creating what looks like a "photograph" on the computer screen - but in 3D.

The captured data can be used to create a digital model for inspection, reverse-engineering, CAD-to-part comparison, factory planning, or investigations for industries ranging from power, process and piping to forensics, surveying and historical preservation.

"Scans are usually in black and white because adding high-quality, colour information to millions of 3D pixels was difficult and time consuming," Dr Bernd-Dietmar Becker, Faro's Director for Marketing and Product Management for Laser Scanning, said.

"The new LS colour series delivers high-quality, high-speed colour scanning with minimal effort and cost, which gives it huge market potential".

When combined with the specially calibrated colour Bracket, new Nikon D200 and Faro Scene v4.1 software, the Faro Laser Scanner LS provides: High-speed capture of 50 million colour pixels in only 2.5 minutes, minimised parallax errors common with competing systems, Automatic white balance, Automatic colour capture, Automatic colour overlay of 3-D pixels, Easy colour handling, 10 mega-pixel colour vs 6 of the previous version.

"This gives the LS an impressive advantage over conventional solutions, which are slower, more costly and deliver lower quality," Dr Becker said.

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