Calibry: 3D Breakthrough Price Breakthrough

Calibry Handheld 3D Scanner. Source: Thor3D

Meet - Thor3D's new affordable Calibry Handheld 3D Scanner .

The Russian-German company Thor3D has been developing 3D scanning solutions for many years, Calibry is their recent product announced in Shanghai.

This is a hand-held 3D scanner that can be used to capture medium and large objects, that is, those whose sizes fall in the range from 20 cm to 10 m. With the same success, you can make a three-dimensional scan of both the toaster and the whole car.

The positional accuracy of the scanner is 0.1 mm, and the resolution is 0.3 mm, which is quite suitable for fairly large objects that will be scanned by this device. Scanning speed - up to 3 million dots per second.

Scanning speed is a very important indicator, as it determines how quickly scanning can be performed. Many other handheld scanners with lower throughput are inconvenient to use. To get enough resolution, you have to move the low-speed hand scanner very slowly, repeating movements from time to time to provide coverage. In addition, these devices are quite heavy.



3D Scanner Calibry. Source: Thor3D

It’s not clear how Calibry works, perhaps not lasers are used, but structured light. The creators explain that they used a new camera specially designed by them, which, in addition to providing high scanning speed, can achieve amazing results: it can cope with such complex tasks as scanning objects with a black / shiny / fluffy surface, in front of which other systems pass .

The camera system is also capable of capturing a colored surface texture in addition to three-dimensional geometry. Developers note:

- It is important that Calibry can capture objects that have always been difficult to 3D scan, such as objects with sharp edges, hair, black and shiny objects. The scanner is also equipped with a built-in texture camera (2.3 megapixels) and can pick up speed up to 3 million dots / s.

Thor3D company has achieved with the new camera has a very important result, it significantly reduced the unit price - up to 4990 Euro / 5790 USD (about 370 000 rubles at the current rate (in store Top 3D Shop - 349 500 rub.)

It is incredibly low The price for a full-featured handheld 3D scanner: Just a few years ago you would have paid $ 75,000 for a quality device, now the prices have dropped significantly, and some handheld scanners can now be purchased for about $ 15,000.

But the price of Thor3D Calibry is three times lower than even such reduced prices.

Since the device itself and its software work well, this will provide an opportunity to engage in 3D scanning for many users who previously could not afford to purchase a 3D scanner for financial reasons.

However, remember that the Calibry scanner is designed to scan medium and large objects. Most likely, you won’t get a good result if you try to scan a small object, such as a piece of jewelry, with this 3D scanner, because an object of this size will use only a small part of the Calibry capture.

Thor3D Calibry is a very good option for those who are looking for an inexpensive handheld 3D scanner for working with large objects.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/undefined/