Success stories featuring our portable 3D measurement technologies

Creaform’s Go!SCAN 3D : sometimes, simpler is better!

Creaform’s Go!SCAN 3D : sometimes, simpler is better!

CADMAN is a United Kingdom-based company founded in June of 1989 to supply NC cutter paths and other mould-related services to mould making companies. After a while, as well as moving more into 3D modeling and design work, the company started offering 3D digitizing and reverse modeling using a CMMs to capture points. It now offers a full range of services from initial concept design through to manufacture.

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The ENVSN and Creaform sail toward Rio 2016!

The ENVSN and Creaform sail toward Rio 2016!

Creaform has been offering 3D engineering services globally for over 10 years. We’ve acquired a strong expertise in inspection, 3D scanning, reverse engineering, mechanical engineering, and design as well as in finite element analysis. The turnkey projects are carried out either on location, or in Creaform labs.

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Engine Inverter Doors Control

Engine Inverter Doors Control

Aircelle is one of the leading players in the global nacelle market. It produces large and small nacelles, thrust reversers and aerostructures. A subsidiary of SAFRAN, Aircelle employs 3 000 people on seven different sites located in France, England and Morocco. The company uses three Creaform HandyPROBE systems at its sites in Morocco and Le Havre, France, for controlling the inverter doors of different models of aircraft.

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3D scanning of the plane's interior

Lufthansa's Jumbo 747-8 digitalized in 18 hours

 

World's longest plane digitalized by the world’s smallest and most accurate handheld 3D scanner.

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From 3D scanning to aerodynamics optimization: when Creaform mixes with extreme sports

From 3D scanning to aerodynamics optimization: when Creaform mixes with extreme sports

CFD pushes back the speed limits in street luge

Holders of the Guinness speed record in street luge (157 km/h), luge enthusiasts from Québec City decided to take up a new challenge: pass the symbolical mark of 100 mph, with no engine! Among these thrill seekers was Louis-Étienne Bouchard, account manager at Creaform.

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2012 Olympics: How 3D Scanning is helping Australia’s Kayak team

2012 Olympics: How 3D Scanning is helping Australia’s Kayak team

Olympic sport keeps pushing athletes to find new and nuanced ways to condition their bodies. The same is true with their equipment. Engineers continually look for new refinements that propel the competition to a new level.

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Nuclear Industry: The Handyscan 3D Scanning Technology in the Heart of Action

Nuclear Industry: The Handyscan 3D Scanning Technology in the Heart of Action

With the goal of controlling or even preventing accidents with nuclear reactors, a French laboratory is conducting simulations of the various potential risks that could result from a malfunction at a nuclear plant.

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Super Sized Heart for Science and Education

Super Sized Heart for Science and Education

Exported replication of a gigantic 10-foot tall human heart for an Egyptian science museum is due to vision, capability, process and technology advancements.

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Case Study, École Centrale de Nantes

Case Study, École Centrale de Nantes

The handheld laser scanner Handyscan 3D has been used for two years as part of the “RAPid Manufacturing” course for the Product Design and Industrial Systems Development (DPSI) in the third year of the engineering curriculum at École Centrale de Nantes.

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The birth of a 12-ft tall metal bull

The birth of a 12-ft tall metal bull

VectraFORM Engineering & Solutions Pvt Ltd is a Handyscan 3D distributor based out of Coimbatore in the southern part of India. A couple of years ago, the company came across the opportunity to create a sacred, sculptured bull for the Isha Foundation’s temple.

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