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TO 3D SCANNING
While the mainstream media continues its obsession with 3D printing, another quiet, perhaps
more impactful, disruption is revolutionizing the way products are designed, engineered, manufactured, inspected and archived. Its 3D scanning -- the act of capturing data from objects in
the real world and bringing them into the digital pipeline.
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Images/scans are brought into a common reference system, where data is merged into a complete model. This
process -- called alignment or registration -- can be performed during the scan itself or as a post-processing step.
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