3D Digital Offers Optix 400 Scanners & EScan

By DE Editors

The product range offered by 3D Digital Corporation (Sandy Hook, CT) now includes the Optix 400 series, which provides compact, lightweight, and tripod-mountable scanning with USB plug and play ease for Windows computers. The series allows detachable heads that are compatible with the base of the Optix.

That one base can enables the use of various detachable heads also allows one scanner to be able to accomplish every job. Optix scanners provide four times the resolution and improved accuracy over previous generation scanners. The weights and sizes of the scanners are reduced for more compact packaging design.

The Optix scanners have the option of connecting external digital cameras in order to provide “extremely” high-quality color texture information, says the company. This color option is available for any of the Optix scanners.

The Optix 400 L has a manual lens, offers long-range scanning, and can handle large-sized objects; the Optix 400 M, with a manual lens, offers medium-range scanning, and handles large- and medium-sized objects. The Optix 400 S (shown here), also with a manual lens, offers short-range scanning of small-sized objects. All the scanners’ specs including resolution, standard deviation, depth of field, point density, field of view, dimensions, and parallax base distance can be found in a chart on 3D Digital’s products page.

3D Digital also announced the EScan, a portable scanner offered at $7,345, enabling any size company or individual to own a high-end scanner. The EScan, which can scan in seven seconds, is said to have the same accuracy as other high-end scanners.

The EScan provides everything that is needed for reverse engineering. The file formats that the Escan can read are point clouds, as well as ASCII, and it can triangulate point clouds such as OBI, STL, and VRML. 3D data can be used by any CAD or CAM programs for direct milling, editing, and other functions used by this software.

3D Digital software automatically sets up the entire placement and points for you to scan;  therefore you do not need to place markers to merge a scan from multiple points.

The company offers an option to upgrade from an EScan to an Optix within 24 months of purchase, which lets you use the EScan price toward the new Optix scanner.

For details, go to 3D Digital Corp.

Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.