Re: Scanning an aircraft

From: Paul-Henri Tinguely (ph.tinguely@altair-consulting.com)
Date: Tue Apr 03 2001 - 10:05:27 EEST


Hello Wayne and list,

You can use the Soisic system from Mensi,
It will allow you to scann the aircraft with a good accuracy from
different positions and reconstruct the surfaces from the points of
clouds

You can visit the www.mensi.com

They have also a Us presence

With my best regards
Paul-Henri Tinguely

See

wlfoss@collins.rockwell.com a écrit :
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> We have a project where we need to get 3D data of an aircrafts surface in
> specific, small areas. Our intent is to plaster cast the surfaces and then
> have them laser scanned for CAD use. Works great on the top facing
> surfaces, but gravity is working against us in the down facing surfaces. We
> have considered laser scanning the aircraft itself, but this requires a
> steady, stationary structure to be built because some of these surfaces are
> quite high off the ground. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we
> can take castings of these surfaces or scan them directly off the aircraft?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne Foss
> Materials & Process Engineer
> Rockwell Collins, Inc.
> Cedar Rapids, Iowa
>
> For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/

For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/



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