Scan monster

The beast hath arrive-ed.

After nearly a year of working with 3D scanning, prototype development and related technology, the time has finally come to get serious.

Very serious.

For our automated part scanner, my partner Alex fronted the cash to buy-it-now one gigantic 1500lb welded steel machine platform off Ebay. As with all great Ebay finds, the tiny picture did no justice to the table we now hold in our studio.

Beautifully crafted from 3/16″ tube steel, the top surface is ground and polished smooth, and designed to accept high precision linear bearings. A protective acrylic shield is mounted on one end, and slides part way along the length of the table. The entire table is mounted on 4 seperate air bags to isolate the table contents from room vibration (or isolate table vibration from the room contents). There are shelves built in to mount computer and related electronics, and a set of urethane casters to keep the entire thing mobile.

The table was originally designed to test spinning shafts or spindles in an automotive type application, but it obviously never found it’s way into regular use, as it was as spotlessly clean as the day it was built. The beast will soon be retrofitted to act as an incredibly stiff, stout, and fully isolated table for precision 3D scans. It is, in a nutshell, the perfect platform for our 3D scanner, and it will soon be a powerful tool in our 3D arsenal. Keep an eye on the blog as we put together our latest 10 micron, 2 axis automated high-speed 3D part scanner.