3D imaging specialist Revopoint has launched a crowdfunding marketing campaign for its MetroX 3D scanner, a tool that it claims presents “metrology-grade accuracy” right down to 0.03mm.
“Meet the Revopoint MetroX,” the corporate says of its seventh crowdfunded gadget, “the breakthrough blue hybrid laser line and full-field structured gentle 3D scanner with 4 highly effective scanning modes and fast-processing that is prepared to fulfill your skilled 3D scanning wants with out breaking the financial institution. MetroX’s 4 scanning modes provide the proper instruments to optimally seize each side of small to medium objects, from flat areas to complicated particulars.”
These 4 modes are, Revopoint explains: a cross-line scan that may seize 800,000 factors per second utilizing 14 crossed blue laser traces, with help for shiny and black surfaces with out the necessity to spray them first; a parallel-line scan designed for high quality floor particulars, which makes use of seven parallel laser traces; an automatic turntable mode; and a full-field blue structured gentle mode, which it claims captures as much as seven million factors per second utilizing 62 traces of sunshine.
The corporate boasts “metrology-grade” accuracy, promising as much as 0.03mm accuracy and 0.01mm precision — aided by a customized calibration board, which is scanned utilizing the bundled Revo Scan software program’s calibration wizard to set every little thing up prepared for seize. For turntable mode, there’s additionally a visible-light digital camera that may seize shade knowledge together with the 3D mannequin — although this is not out there in another scanning mode.
Revopoint says the MetroX can seize objects from 10×10×10mm (round 0.4×0.4×0.4″) as much as 1×1×1m (round 39×39×39″). The usual version comes with the scanner, dual-axis turntable, tripod, energy provide, calibration board, markers, wrist strap, energy and knowledge cables, and a pattern bust to scan; a complicated version bundle contains extra customary markers plus ten dome markers, ten ball markers, 4 pyramid markers, and 4 bar markers.
Revopoint is now funding manufacturing of the MetroX on Kickstarter, with rewards beginning at $669 for “early chicken” backers — a claimed 33 % low cost on a deliberate $999 promoting value. All {hardware} is predicted to ship in December this 12 months, the corporate says.