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Thought some people might get a kick of this little project. We had the point cloud man in today and I filmed him working for a bit. The files are imported into solidworks.

This is their second time out for a detail scan of holes, bolts, etc. A few weeks ago they were out with an automated machine for rough dimensions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubil10f2TJg (the video was shot/uploaded with my cell phone so it may not be the best quality)

They probably won't be asking your advice but I've had two friends buy Faro arms. Both sent them back. You could probably do about as well with a calibrated piece of string.

I don't know what the appeal is, a cmm is not that expensive now.

Hi Guardian452. Thanks for sharing this video clip. It was really neat to watch as the laser scanner sent the point cloud data to the modeling package in a near real-time process.

I have done a few small experiments with point cloud data from photogrammetry tools like Bundler SfM and it usually takes a lot of post processing before the .PLY formatted data is worth importing into a modeling package.