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3D Scanner Technology Review

Aug/Sept 1998

This is not a complete and exhaustive listing. Contact information was collected from product literature and web documents. Web addresses (URL's) are certain to change without notice, leaving us with bad links. If you have additions, comments or find a bad link, please drop an email to Jerry Isdale (isdale@acm.org)
Company Products
3D Pipeline Corporation
599 North Mathilda Avenue, Suite 39
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
408-733-1367
fax 408-733-5899
http://www.3dpipeline.com
3D Pipeline has developed a radial ultrasonic scanner for geometric capture of cave and mine passageways. A set of 48 axiometric distances are collected along a laser sighted survey line. The resulting data is extruded into a wireframe mesh, suitable for rendering,analysis.
3D Scanners Ltd
South Bank Technopark
90 London Road London SE1 6LN,
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 171 922 8822
Fax: +44 171 922 8899
email: info@3dscanners.com
http://www.3dscanners.com
ModelMaker - Hand held laser scanner for 3D data & color capture.
Reversa - Laser scanner system retrofitted to CNC/CMM/Manipulator
Replica - Stand alone laser scanner system
3DV Systems Ltd
RDC - Rafael Development Corporation Ltd.
14 Beth Hashoeva Lane
Tel-Aviv 65814, Israel
Tel. 972-3-567-2888
Fax. 972-3-566-0167 http://www.rdc.co.il/3dv.html
3D laser camera captures a frame or movie (at a rate of over 30 frames per second) in a three-dimensional mode, with each pixel having the Z (depth or distance from the viewer) dimension.
Aracor
425 Lakeside Drive
Sunnyvale CA 94086 USA
Tel: 408 733 7780
Fax: 408 732 1996
email: weideman@aracor.com
http://www.aracor.com
Archimedes: software tool for image display, analysis, processing for 2D & 3D images such as CT, MRI, digital radiographs, etc. Includes 3D reconstruction tools
Applied Research Associates
PO Box 3894
Christchurch, New Zealand
Tel/Fax: +64 3 374 6120
email: enquiries@aranz.co.nz
http://www.aranz.co.nz
http://www.polhemus.com
Hand held laser scanner Manufacturer - sales via Polhemus
Catco Inc.
1100 Circle 75 Parkway, Suite 780
Atlanta, GA 30339 USA
Tel: 770-859-0451
Fax: 770-859-0454
Email: plienart@catco.com
http://www.catco.com/
Laser Mapping System (LMS): 3D laser scanner and SGI based software. Also offers scanning services for large architectural and other objects.

Catco is a joint venture between Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Electricité de France (EdF).

CGI
15161 Technology Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55344 USA
Tel: 612 937 2005
Tel: 800 207 4318
Fax: 612 937 3018
email: cgi@reverse-eng.com
http://www.reverse-eng.com
CSS-1000: Laser image scanner integrated with milling machine to capture section images for 3D volumetric reconstruction.
CyberOptics Corporation
5900 Golden Hills Drive
Minneapolis, MN 55416 USA
Tel: 612 542 5000
Tel: 800 746 6315
Fax: 612 542 5100
email: info@cyberoptics.com
http://www.cyberoptics.com
CyberScan® Vantage: sub-micron laser scanner for 2D profile or 3D topographic maps of small objects.
Cyberware
2110 Del Monte Avenue
Monterey, CA 93940-3797 USA
Tel: 408 657 1450
Fax: 408 657 1497
email: info@cyberware.com
http://www.cyberware.com
Offers a variety of scanner systems for humans (whole body or human face/head) and complex objects (compact/portable to large objects). Numerous service bureaus around the world.
Delcam plc, Small Heath Business
Park, Birmingham B10 0HJ, UK
Tel: +44 121 766 5544,
Fax: +44 121 766 5511
http://www.delcam.com
CopyCAD: software for reconstruction of 3D CAD models from laser scanned datasets.
Design Automation
3211 Bramer Drive, Suite D
Raleigh, NC 27604 USA
Tel: 919-790-0000
Fax: 919-790-0100
Email: dai@revworks.com
http://www.revworks.com
RevWorks™: reverse engineering for SolidWorks
RevEng™ reverse engineering for CADKEY
works with variety of CMM and digitizers
Digibotics, Inc
2800 Longhorn Boulevard Suite 104
Austin, TX 78758 USA
Tel: 512 832 6544
Fax: 512 832 1163
email: jeff@digibotics.com
http://www.digibotics.com
Digibot II: 3D laser digitizing system for fully automated, portable, non-contact 4 axis digitizing
EOS Systems Inc
205-2034 West 12th St
Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6J 2G2
Tel: 604 732 6658
Fax: 604 732 6642
email sales@photomodeler.com
http://www.photomodeler.com
Photomodeler Pro 3.0: powerful, yet low cost Windows program for photogrammetric 3D model creation.
EOIS (Electro-Optical Information Systems)
1221 Broadway, Suite 204
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Tel: 310 451 8566
Fax: 310 260 1509
email eois@ix.netcom.com
http://www.eois.com
Mini-Moire™: white light moiré interferometric sensor. Available as separate sensor/software for attachment to customer CMM, or integrated with FaroArm; or Sony Digital Camera (The Handy)
ERIM International
1975 Green Road
Ann Arbor MI, 48105-2554 USA
Tel: 313 994 120
Fax: 313 994 1575
http://www.erim-int.com
Holomapper: a 3D Optical metrology instrument using holographic imaging techniques to produce high precision measurements.
Faro Technologies
125 Technology Park
Lake Mary, FL 32746-6204 USA
Tel: 407 333 9911
Fax: 407 333 4181
email: info@faro.com
http://www.faro.com
FaroArm: Portable multi-axis measuring arm. (Mechanical digitizer/CMM) 

AnthroCAM™: windows based package supporting FaroArm™

Roger Lewis
General Dynamics Information Systems
2200 Clarendon Blvd Suite 1007
Arlington, VA 22201 USA
Tel: 703 271 7526
Fax: 703 271 7676
email: roger.w.lewis@gd-is.com
http://www.cdev.com/products/software/glmx.html
Geo-Located MultiSource Exploitation (GLMX): photogrammetric based tool with change/object detection, annotation and presentation tools, multi-sensor image fusion, automated registration of new images with existing 3D site models.
Geometrix, Inc.
124 Race Street
San Jose, CA 95126 USA
Tel: 408 999 7499
Fax: 408 289 8258
http://www.geometrixinc.com
VideoModeling: automated photogrammetric 3D modeling technology. 3Scan object scanner. Automated 3D camera tracking tools to be demonstrated at I/ITSEC Dec. ’98.
GTCO Corporation
7125 Riverwood Drive
Columbia, Maryland 21046 USA
TollFree: 800 344 4723
Tel: 410 3816688
Fax: 410 290 9065
Email: sales@gtco.com
http://www.gtco.com
Freepoint 3D ™ Digitizer: ultrasonic tracker based
Hymarc Ltd
25 Antaries Drive
Nepean, Ontario, Canada, K2E 8B1
Tel: 613 727 1584
Fax: 613 727 0441
http://www.hymarc.com
Hyscan 45C, ColorScan: 3D laser digitizer heads for use with CMM, CNC or other device.
Imageware
Ann Arbor, MI
121 West Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104 USA
Tel: (313) 994-7300
Fax: (313) 994-7303
Email: sales@iware.com
http://www.iware.com
Surfacer: software package for creation of 3D models from digitizer data
Immersion Corporation
2158 Paragon Drive
San Jose, CA 95131 USA
Tel: 408 467 1900
Fax: 408 467 1901
email: info@immerse.com
http://www.immerse.com
MicroScribe-3D: mechanical digitizers
Image Guided Technlogies
5710-B Flatiron Parkway
Boulder, CO 80301 USA
Tel: 303 447 0248
Fax: 303 447 3905
email: info@imageguided.com
http://www.imageguided.com
Optical trackers using multiple LEDs on a probe. FlashPoint® 5000 for medical applications 

Pixsys™ 5000 for commercial coordinate measurement.

In-Harmony Technology Corporation
101 South San Antonio Road,
Petaluma, CA 94952 USA
Tel: 707 769 5056
Fax: 707 773 1578
E-mail: info@inharmonytech.com
http://www.inharmonytech.com
Venus 3D Camera combines standard digital camera with a proprietary flash that projects a color-coded white light pattern.
InnoveMetric Software, Inc.
2014 Jean-Talon Nord
Suite 310
Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada, G1N 4N6
Tel: 418 688 2061
Fax: 481 688 3011
email: esther@innovmetric.com
http://www.innovmetric.com
Polyworks™ integrated line of software tools for generating 3D models from a variety of digitizer data. Supports Mechanical digitizers (CMM), Laser scanners, optical digitizers, object slices, etc.
InSpeck, Inc.
360 rue Franquet, #20
Ste-Foy, QC Canada GIP 4N3
Tel: 418 650 2112
Fax: 418 650 2141
Email: inspeck@inspeck.com
http://www.inspeck.com
InSpeck 3D Capturor: white halogen light digitizer captures 3D geometry and color texture map
K2T, Inc.
One South Linden
Duquesne, PA 15110 USA
Tel: 412 469 3150
http://www.k2t.com/
Scene Modeler: 3D Laser Scanner systems capable of scanning architectural scale objects (building interiors,
Kreon Industrie
Rue Nicolas-Appert
B.P. 1565
87022 LIMOGES CEDEX 09 France
Tel: +33 (0)5 55 38 81 55
Fax: +33 (0)5 55 37 60 94
http://www.kreon3d.com
KLS 51 & KLS 171: 3D Laser Scanning Sensors for use with CMM (Manual, DCC, or Articulating Arm) or CNC Machine Tool
Laser Design Inc
9401 James Ave South, Suite 162
Minneapolis, MN 55431 USA
Tel: 612 884 9648
fax: 612 884 9653
email: sales@laserdesign.com
http://www.laserdesign.com
Surveyor® 3D laser digitizing systems, DataSculpt® data editing software.
Laser Technology Inc
7070 S. Tucson Way
Englewood, Colorado 80112 USA
Tel: 303 649 1000
Fax: 303 649 9710
Email: info@lasertech.com
http://www.lasertech.com
Laser range finders and software applications (Criterion AutoScan System, LI Contour, Face Profiler, WinProfile). For large field applications (Geo-survey, etc.)
Metacreations Real Time Geometry Lab
6303 Carpinteria Avenue
Carpinteria, CA 93013 USA
Tel: 805 566 6200
Fax: 805 566 6385
http://www.metacreations.com/products/rtgeom
http://www.real3d.com
Galatea, RealScan 3D: Laser Digitizer system
OEM software for real-time polygonal data from point cloud data.
(see May/June 1998 IEEE CG&A Article )
Minolta Corporation
Instrument Systems Division
101 Ramsey, NJ 07446 USA
Tel: 888 473 2656 ext 9117
Tel: 201 818 3571
Fax 201 825 4375
email: vivid3d@minolta.com
http://www.minolta3d.com
Vivid 700 portable 3D laser digitizer
National Research Council (NRC-CNRC)
Institute for Information Technology
Visual Information Technology Group
Building M-50
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6 Canada
Fax: 613 952 0215
http://www.vit.iit.nrc.ca
The NRC laboratory has been active in the development of 3D digitizing and modeling technologies since since 1981. A variety of prototypes have been built for the demonstration of the technology in the fields of industrial automation, inspection, space robotics and medicine. 

Sponsor of: 3DIM’99 Second International Conference on 3D Digital Imaging and Modeling (Oct. 4-8 1999)

Neuro Scan Labs
10 Pidgeon Hill Drive, Suite 100,
Sterling, Virginia 20165-6103, USA
Tel: 703 444 7100
FAX: 703 444 0676
http://www.neuro.com/neuroscan
SCAN 4.0 includes an interface for 3D localization of electrodes, digitization of an individual subject's head surface, and 3D imaging of electrophysiological activity
Northern Digital Inc.
103 Randall Drive
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3V2
Tel: 519 884 5142
Fax: 519 884 5184
Free: 800 265 2741
email: jyates@ndigital.com
http://www.ndigital.com
Optotrack® Systems: Infrared tracking devices for measurement and motion capture.
Paraform, Inc.
795 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto, California 94303 USA
Tel: (650) 846-2100
Fax: (650) 846-2160
http://www.paraform.com
Paraform's software technology converts 3D laser scanned data into NURBS, suitable for use within the most popular animation and modeling software applications.
Perceptron Inc
47827 Halyard Drive
Plymouth, MI 48170 USA
Tel: 734 414 6100
Fax: 734 414 4700
http://www.perceptron.com
3D Laser Scanner sensors and systems
Polheums Inc.
One Hercules Drive
PO Box 560,
Colchester, VT 05446
Free: 800.357.4777
Tel: 802.655.3159
Fax: 802 655 1439
http://www.polhemus.com
HLS Hand held Laser Scanner: combines Fastrak® magnetic tracker with laser line scanner. Manufactured by Applied Research Associates. 

3Draw® Pro 3D Digitizer tablet.

Raindrop Geomagic, Inc.
206 N. Randolph St., Suite 520
Champaign, IL 61820-3989 USA
Tel: 217-239-2551
TollFree: 800-251-5551
Fax: 217-239-2556
http://www.geomagic.com
Geomagic Wrap® is software designed for automatic surface reconstruction from point cloud data.
Roland Digital Group
15271 Barranca Parkway
Irvine, California 92618 USA
TollFree: 800 542 2307
Tel: 949 727 2100
Fax: 949 727 2112
http://www.picza.com
Picza: Desktop 3D laser scanner for PC systems
Rollei Fototechnic GmbH
Dept. RolleiMetric
Office: Mrs. Schuster
Salzdahlumer Str. 196
D-38126 Braunschweig
Tel: 49 (0) 531-6800-222
Fax: 49 (0) 531-6800-303
Email: info@rolleimetric.de
http://www.rolleimetric.de
RolleiMetric CDW photogrammetric model creation software and cameras
ROMER INC.
5145 Avenida Encinas
Carlsbad, CA 92008
Tel: 760 438 1725
Fax: 760 438 3512
http://www.romer.com
Portable Articulated Arms for CMM & mounting 3D Laser Scanning Sensors
Steinbichler
40 000 Grand River, Suite 101
Novi, MI 48375
Tel: 248 426 0638
Fax: 248 426 0643
http://www.steinbichler.com
COMET white light triangulation digitizing sensors
Sven Technologies
2479 E. Bayshore Rd.,
Suite #707, Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA
Tel: 650 852 9242
Fax: 650 813 1775
E-mail: hello@sven-tech.com
http://www.sven-tech.com/products/digitact/
Digitact: digitizer uses a multiplicity of mechanical sensing elements to rapidly digitize one plane of the surface into a wire-frame model. 

(Although product made an appearance at Siggraph 96, it is not commercially available.)

Third Dimension Software Ltd
Bristol, England
info@third.com
Tel. +44 (0)117 9892450
Fax. +44 (0)117 9892451
http://www.third.com
Color Encoded Structured Light (CESL) scanner capable of digitizing moving or changing 3D objects such as the human face and mouth to millimeter accuracy
Tricorder Technology plc
The Long Room
Coppermill Lock
Summerhouse Lane
Harefield , Middlesex
UK UB9 6JA
Tel: +44 1895 820 920
Fax: +44 1895 820 630
E-mail: mail@tricorder.co.uk
http://www.tricorder.co.uk
Hand held 3D laser scanner, uses solid state inertial sensors for scanner tracking. Sensor also available for stationary mounting. SnapShot, a photogrammetric tool for use with consumer digital cameras has been announced.
The Turing Institute
Boyd Orr Building
University Avenue
Glasgos G12 8NN, Scotland
Tel: +44 (0) 141 337 6410
Fax: +44 (0) 141 339 0796
http://www.turing.gla.ac.uk
3D-Matic C3D: White light, stereoscopic digitizing technology available in a variety of system configurations.
Ultimetrics, Ltd.
826 Morrison Road
Columbus, OH 43230 USA
Email: mail@ultimetrics.com
Tel: 614 577 8025
Fax: 614 577 8019
http://www.ultimetrics.com
U1 3D Digitizer and Point Processing Software: laser scanner system and point cloud reconstruction software
Vexcel Corporation
4909 Nautilus Court 
Boulder, Colorado 80301 USA 
Tel: 303 444 0094 
Fax: 303 444 0470 
Email: info@vexcel.com 
http://www.vexcel.com
FotoG: photogrammetric products and services
Visual Interface, Inc.
4516 Henry St., Second Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3728 USA
Voice: (412) 621-8242
Fax: (412) 621-7018
Email: rupp@visint.com
http://www.visint.com
Virtuoso® shape camera: portable white light 3D Digitizer
Vitana Corporation
26-5470 Canotek Road
Gloucester, Ontario
Canada K1J 9H3
Tel: (613) 749-4445
Fax: (613) 749-4087
http://www.vitana.com
Shapeworks inspection and modeling system based on Shapegrabber™ laser digitzer
VirtuoZo Systems International
21 Buchanan St, West End,
PO Box 3797, South Brisbane BC, Queensland, 4101, Australia.
Tel: +61 7 3846 5933
Fax: +61 7 3846 7844
Email: sales@virtuozo.com.au
http://www.virtuozo.com.au
VirtuoZo: Software tool creates 3D visualizations from scanned stereo photography & stereo SPOT satellite