RS Components adds handheld 3D scanner

RS Components has added the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) award-winning Scanify handheld scanner from Fuel3D to its range of affordable desktop systems for 3D digitisation and printing.

The scanner combines stereoscopy and photometry to create an accurate, high-resolution digital model including 8bit RGB colour data. The user places an optical tracking target on the object, as a reference for movement correction, and a one-click shot (0.1s) then captures all the images needed to create the model.

The scanner exports various file formats including STL, used by many 3D printers, thereby allowing scanned objects to be replicated quickly and easily. Support for OBJ and PLY formats allows direct export to popular design or animation software environments for use by designers, artists, educators, makers and hobbyists.