Novel Design, Product Development & Reverse Engineering (for Designers & Prototyping)
For designers and outdoor product developers, 3D scanning and modeling provide the ability to digitize physical reality into actionable 3D data, serving as a bridge between the physical and digital design worlds.
This technology empowers designers to accelerate development, improve accuracy, and unlock new creative possibilities across various design disciplines, including outdoor products for climbing, camping, mountain biking, and skiing.
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Quickly capture the exact geometry of physical prototypes, hand-sculpted models, or existing products for immediate integration into digital design workflows, enabling faster iteration. Scanning a physical prototype model can convert an object into an editable 3D file in minutes to hours, replacing traditional manual methods that could take days or weeks, significantly compressing the design iteration cycle and getting products to market faster.
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Obtain highly accurate 3D data from existing objects when no original CAD files are available, facilitating redesign, replication, or integration into new systems. For redesigning an ergonomic product or specific outdoor gear (e.g., cycling shoes, ski boot liners), 3D scanning captures intricate curves and forms precisely, and user anatomy, in minutes. This reduces manual measurement and subjective interpretation time by over 70%, preventing costly prototype iterations and ensuring perfect fit.
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Compare designed CAD models directly against physical prototypes or manufactured parts to identify deviations, ensuring design intent is met and quality standards are upheld. Validating a pre-production sample (e.g., a mountain bike frame) against its CAD design using 3D scanning can identify critical deviations in minutes. Catching a tooling or manufacturing error at this stage prevents costly production of non-conforming units, recalls, or performance issues in the field, saving significant material and manufacturing costs.
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Create highly realistic and accurate 3D models of real-world objects or environments for rendering, animation, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), or simulations. Digitizing a real-world prop or architectural element for film VFX or game environments can be done in hours with 3D scanning, replacing traditional modeling from scratch that would take days to weeks, accelerating content creation and reducing labor costs.
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Capture individual biometric data or unique object geometries to create perfectly customized designs.
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Generate accurate dimensional data suitable for manufacturing processes (e.g., CNC machining, 3D printing molds, pattern cutting), ensuring seamless transition from prototype to production. Producing tooling for injection molding a camping utensil using 3D print data derived from a scan is significantly faster and less expensive than commissioning traditional tooling design, saving thousands to tens of thousands of dollars per tool while maintaining exact fidelity.