Specialty Service · Capture
3D scanning: turn the physical thing into a working file
Sometimes the design you need already exists — as a legacy part with no drawings, a hand-sculpted original, a discontinued component, or an artwork worth preserving. Scanning captures it in high resolution; from there we can archive it, modify it, or print it again at any size.
Scan-to-something, not scan-and-goodbye
Raw scan data is a point cloud, not a part. The value is in what happens next: we clean and watertight the mesh, rebuild critical geometry as true CAD when reverse engineering demands it, and prepare files that actually print — because the same shop doing the scanning is doing the printing.
Typical jobs: recreating an obsolete component for equipment that can't be replaced, digitizing a sculptor's original for enlargement or editioning, capturing ergonomic bucks and hand-shaped masters into editable CAD, and archiving fragile objects before time wins.
Accuracy where it counts
We match capture method to the object — fine structured-light passes for detail and mechanical fits, photogrammetry for large organic forms — and we'll tell you honestly which features scan well and which should be re-modeled instead of trusted from the mesh.
| Scanning at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Object size | Coin-scale to room-scale |
| Deliverables | STL / OBJ mesh · optional CAD rebuild |
| Common uses | Reverse engineering · replication · archive |
| Reprint option | SLA · FDM · SLS · full color |
| Handling | White-glove for originals & artworks |
Have an object that needs to become a file?
Describe it — size, material, what you'll do with the scan — and we'll quote capture, cleanup and any downstream printing together.