HandyScan: Contactless Digitalizing
HandyScan is one of the tools for digitalizing parts and surfaces that have been most successful and gone most popular over the past few years, and have even managed in some cases to overthrow the traditional tridimensionals. It is a hand scanner, totally portable and user-friendly.
It has very different uses: reversed engineering to display on screen a physical object, dimensional checking, rheology, animation, multimedia, medical applications, and so on…
In our field, one of the most typical applications is the digitalizing of foundry parts or structures that have to be machined but have an excess of matter or can be deformed. To determine exactly where this excess of matter is, the foundry part can be digitalised and overlaid on the 3D geometry that will be machined, to exactly calculate the optimal machining process.
Another application is the 100% dimensional checking of parts. Such a report gives a lot of confidence to the final customer, since it shows with all transparency the state of a part, checking fixture, and so on…; the results, however, must be very well interpreted before being handed over to the final customer, as in some occasions unexpected results or uncertain deviations due to shines, shadows, etc, can be obtained.
This first video shows a digitalizing application for a conceptcar.
This second video shows the treatment process of a clot of points obtained with HandyScan through Catia, including reconstruction of surfaces, dimensional reports by colorimetry, plans parametrised and even obtained to be able to see all the process, from digitalizing to the launching of a product design.
HandyScan is a product to digitalize without any contact distributed in Spain by Deltacad.
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