The new HandySCAN 700 at work!
Check out this YouTube video filmed during a recent press conference in Detroit: Organized by SME, a manufacturers’ association, the press conference aimed at introducing two important upcoming events...
View ArticleQuality Digest Live highlights the advantages of the HandySCAN 700
Quality Digest Live’s recent Tech Corner profiled our metrology-grade, ultra-fast HandySCAN 700. With its 0.03 mm accuracy and ability to collect 480 000 per second, the HandySCAN 700 scans direct to...
View ArticleQuality Digest highlights our latest Go!SCAN 20, the next generation in...
Quality Digest Live’s recent Tech Corner presented an excellent overview of the Go!SCAN 20, our new next-generation white-light scanner for designers and engineers that work in product development. Now...
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Creaform technology at the service of environmental sustainability
Environmental topics and issues are becoming more present, both in the day-to-day life and in the industrial realm. Increasing efforts are being made towards a “green shift,” whether for new...
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3D scanning of the Marine Corps War Memorial
Although our 3D scanners have been developed for metrology purposes, we are often called upon to scan objects for miscellaneous applications. Heritage preservation is a very interesting application...
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ÉTS: Inspection of a concrete canoe in CATIA
A group of 30 civil engineering students from the École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) in Montréal is using CATIA, the multi-platform CAD/CAM/CAE software, to perform inspection of the manufacturing...
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The HandySCAN 3D assists in producing a cleaner snowmobile
The Rochester Institute of Technology is a college located in Upstate New York, not too far from Lake Ontario. And what do you do during the long winter months in that part of the world? Snowmobiling,...
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Alérion Supermileage does it again!
Congratulations to the Alérion Supermileage team, who recently won second place in the prestigious Detroit Shell Eco-Marathon! Another great success for the engineering students from Université Laval,...
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HandySCAN 3D digitizer helps train the next generation of french engineers
Located in the South West of France, close to both the Swiss and Italian border, the small-ish city of Grenoble is nonetheless considered a major technology and industry center. Last year, the...
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VXmodel key to success in creating Formula SAE race car for engineering...
Jayhawk Motorsports, a team of 40 engineering students from the University of Kansas, is using the Creaform HandySCAN 3D scanner to create two racecars, including creating a powerful 3D model of the...
View ArticleHave you heard about 3D scanning and 3D printing in product development 3.0?
In today’s hyper-competitive markets, product development teams—from engineers to designers—are facing tremendous pressure to come up with new innovations and new products faster than ever before....
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Creaform brings forward a new partnership with Stratasys!
It’s been said before; 3D scanning and 3D printing go hand-in-hand. So the marketing agreement we recently signed with Stratasys was a proverbial natural fit! This new partnership brings together two...
View ArticleThe HandySCAN 3D to Assess Hail Damage
Perhaps among the most unpredictable and sudden of weather patterns, it is well known that hail can cause important disturbance. Broken windows, seriously dented cars, house shingles transformed into...
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HAWKS racing: an international element to the Creaform Student Sponsorship...
Maybe because we’re a North American company, when we first launched our Student Sponsorship Program, we sort of expected to receive mostly applications from teams located either in Canada or the US....
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A Little Bit of Paralympic Glory for the Creaform Portable 3D Scanners
Photo: Latrèche winning his individual bronze medal in London against Italian fencer Marco Cima, in September 2012. Credit: L’Équipe Alim Latrèche is a 36 year-old paralympic fencing champion, with...
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A bright engineering team part of a smart competition!
Being born in Quebec inevitably means growing up connected to winter sports and activities. Every second person here goes skiing or snowshoeing on weekends. The place is covered in snow practically 6...
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Unravelling the mysteries of the ocean… with 3D scanning
So is the fascinating mission of Kyle Zawada, student at St-Andrews University in Scotland. To be more specific, he proposed to use portable scanning techniques to 3D document and measure...
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New 3D scanner: What to expect from the new MetraSCAN 3D
It’s true: we have completely reengineered our MetraSCAN 3D laser scanner, in order to help Quality Control and reverse engineering experts face the increasing quality standards brought forward by...
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The history of metrology from Galileo to optical systems
Metrology originates from antiquity. The first forms of measurements were established to facilitate commerce and record human activity. Time, weight and length were the first standards formulated....
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VXmodel key to success in creating Formula SAE race car for engineering...
Jayhawk Motorsports, a team of 40 engineering students from the University of Kansas, is using the Creaform HandySCAN 3D scanner to create two racecars, including creating a powerful 3D model of the...
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