Scanning an all-terrain vehicle with a RangeVision PRO 3D scanner

RangeVision was contacted by a customer, Mosformovka, which provides services for vacuum molding of plastic, a process for the production of bulk parts from sheet plastic by heating and vacuum exposure.

The customer’s goal was to scan the front of the all-terrain vehicle, namely the Gazelle cabin. This was necessary in order to produce a new part based on a ready-made 3D model in STL format, the documentation for which was lost. The task was complicated by the dimensions of the scanned object itself. In front of us was not a gazelle, but a real all-terrain vehicle! The RangeVision PRO 3D scanner helped us to cope with these difficulties. In order to digitize the object, we put markers on it. This makes it much easier to scan large surfaces.

The gazelle cabin was scanned using a RangeVision PRO 3D scanner. The coverage of one scanner image for zone No. 1 is 460×345×345 mm. We took several pictures in order to cover the entire cabin of the car. The process of digitizing an automobile part took us 6 hours. It took about another working day to stitch together the received scan groups and process them (removing unnecessary dots and extraneous noise) in the RangeVision ScanMerge program. As a result, after 2 days, a ready-made 3D model in the STL format was obtained.

The customer was satisfied. The RangeVision PRO 3D scanner coped with its task, despite all the difficulties associated primarily with the dimensions of the object. This proves once again that RangeVision 3D scanners are effective in digitizing objects of various sizes, from jewelry with complex geometries to car bodywork and all-terrain vehicle cabins. The solution to this problem would not have been possible without the use of a 3D scanner. Measurements of the rover's cabin would take too much time, and their results would not be accurate.