Watching a high end scanner demo right now

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Won’t say which one, but it’s a $30k+ scanner and the software is amazing.

  • 180fps
  • Switching modes on the fly from cross line to parallel line to single line with a click, durring a scan!
  • Switching from shiny, to black, and other modes on the fly.
  • auto table surface deletion
  • handles RED objects just fine (metrox won’t scan something red.)
  • super fast, like unreal
  • adaptive scanning so big flat areas have few points and detailed items get way more
  • handles translucent items

I’ll never be able to afford a $30-$40k scanner, but maybe we can get some features in Metro.

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Those technologies will trickle down eventually! 23 years ago I used a Minolta Vivid 900 that required mains power, a survey tripod, could only take one frame at a time, and each frame had to be registered manually. Resolution and accuracy were about 0.05 in Z and 0.175mm in XY. It was incredible - and eye-wateringly expensive - at the time and in archaeology we made many exciting discoveries with it that were published internationally. We used to take it into the field and lug a generator and 500w halogen light with us.

The scanners we have today that can fit in a coat pocket and collect data via a phone was the stuff of dreams back then.

Innovation and competition are a very good thing, and those high-end companies you mention are setting the bar for everyone else :grinning_face:

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