Additive is growing up

By Tom Welsh |
Quote card: Verify continuously, not at the finish line. A MicroScribe measuring a cast housing on the bench.

Notes on 3D Measurement Point of view · In-process quality Real-time, in-process quality verification is the shift that turns additive manufacturing from a prototyping tool into a production one. Tom…

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Keeping the tools alive

By Tom Welsh |
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 Kelli Carrington |

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?

By Tom Welsh |
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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What is Digitizing?

By Kelli Carrington |

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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