New software enhances FARO Laser Scanner LS

The eight available software packages include: FARO Architecture with Autodesk ADT is powerful and widely used to quickly model buildings.The comprehensive Object Library not only speeds up the modelling process, but also fills its database with all the items in order to create quick statistics of the used building components for cost calculations and reports. FARO Heritage with JRC’s Reconstructor meets the archaeology-, architecture- and artwork-digitizing needs of Historical Preservationists. Its time-saving features include target-less registration, coloured Multi-Resolution-Meshing, Orthophoto, and AutoCad export with FARO Cloud. FARO Design Studio with Geomagic’s Studio 8 supports the reverse-engineering and design of large products, statues and other freeform shaped objects. It automatically generates an accurate digital model from a point cloud. FARO Compare with Geomagic’s Qualify 8 enables the instant comparison of large products and other freeform shaped objects with their original CAD file. It is used to optimize first article and production inspection, tool validation and spring-back analysis. FARO Forensic enables investigators to quickly dissect crime scenes with advanced functions such as Blood Spatter Analysis, Shooting Trajectories Calculation, Hi-Res Photo Overlay with accurate measurements, and more. FARO Process, Power & Piping with INOVx’s PlantLINx empowers Petrochemical, Chemical, Food, Power and other Process Industries to load scan data, then recognize pipes, steel elements and other primitives in order to design a process-plant model. It allows the export of the modelled systems to AutoCAD, Intergraph and AVEVA. FARO Process, Power & Piping with BitWyse’s LASERGENSuite is also designed for the Process, Power and Piping Industries, but specializes in the export and management of point clouds. It provides a direct link to Microstation, AutoCAD, Aveva and Intergraph. It also provides clash detection, pipe recognition and data management of large point clouds. FARO Tunnel & Mining with ATS’s RR-Tunnel and Mining software simplifies and speeds the comparison of tunnel point clouds to the original design file. It provides well organized contour lines, profiles and slices, as well as fast reports. All these tools cooperate directly with FARO Scene, software for viewing, administrating, calibrating, filtering and managing large, 3D point clouds collected with the FARO Laser Scanner LS.