FARO Releases Laser Scanner LS Software

Lake Mary, FL – FARO Technologies, Inc., manufacturer of the portable measurement arm and laser tracker, released version 4.0 of its 3-D laser scanning software family: FARO Scene, FARO Scout, FARO Scout LT and FARO Record.

The software packages are used for viewing, administrating, calibrating, filtering and managing large, 3-D point clouds collected with the FARO Laser Scanner LS.

"The FARO LS is the most advanced device of its kind, and now can offer even more value to a wide range of industries and applications," FARO President and Co-CEO Jay Freeland said.

Version 4.0 was designed with the following improvements:

• Intrinsic use of inclination sensor for faster registration
• Constraint-plane fit for high-accuracy plane positioning
• Easier export of slices
• Export of objects in DXF format
• Intelligent contrast adjustment to improve point-cloud visualization
• Automatic filtering
• FARO Laser Scanner LS features enhanced firmware, which is available for free to existing LS customers.

The FARO Laser Scanner LS is a portable, computerized measurement device that creates a high-resolution, 3-D, digital "photograph" by scanning everything in its 360-degree path as far as 76m away. It collects 120,000 points per second with up to 3mm accuracy while the system's laptop computer recreates and records all of the object's 3-D measurements.

The captured data can then be used to create a digital model, or to perform evaluation and analysis against an existing model for anything requiring highly detailed 3-D measurements, including factory planning, building-information modeling – as well as specialized applications ranging from land surveying, recreating accident sites and crime scenes, to digitally preserving historical sites.

SOURCE: FARO Technologies, Inc.