2005 Volume 44 Issue 6 Pages 499-504
In recent years, there has been a focus on non-contact 3D measurement equipment in various industrial fields. We will present an outline of non-contact 3D measurement equipment through the introduction of Konica Minolta Sensing, Inc.'s VIVID 9i. Measurement of a wide or the entire area of a target object is made possible by allowing the merging of separate measurements of plural object sections. Data processing technology for data alignment is required to obtain 3D data for the entire object. 3D data processing technology consists of technology for polygon creation, noise reduction, data alignment, data merging, and data correction. We will also present modeling, RE (Reverse engineering) and CAT (Computer-assisted testing) as examples of the use of these techniques in the fields of production and manufacturing.
