Keeping the tools alive

A researcher digitizing a primate cranium with a yellow MicroScribe arm.

Notes on 3D Measurement Stewardship · Forensic Anthropology Why I took over maintaining 3D-ID and 3Skull, two tools the forensic anthropology community depends on, after their authors passed away. Tom…

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Data File Conversion in Landmark-Based GMM

By setting a part coordinate system and defining it, you create a matrix that describes the rotations and translations you get from the device’s coordinate system into the part coordinate system, giving them a common frame of reference, so that scanned data from the real-world object easily translates into the design world of the CAD environment.

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Why Align?

Setting a part alignment using a corner fixture

By setting a part coordinate system and defining it, you create a matrix that describes the rotations and translations you get from the device’s coordinate system into the part coordinate system, giving them a common frame of reference, so that scanned data from the real-world object easily translates into the design world of the CAD environment.

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Introducing the MicroScribe i+

A closeup of a black and yellow digitizing arm showing the red and white revware logo, in the background a green bush.

PRESS RELEASE – New Accuracy PLUS Versatility RALEIGH, N.C. (March 11, 2022) Revware Inc., manufacturer of the MicroScribe® line of portable CMMs and innovator in the field of 3D data…

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What is Digitizing?

Digitizing is the science (and art, many would say), of collecting information about a physical object or space into a digital (computer-readable) format. At the most basic level, digitization is…

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