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Trak In, Markers Out With SHINING 3D’s New EinScan Trak 3D Scanner

Trak In, Markers Out With SHINING 3D’s New EinScan Trak 3D Scanner

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• Anyone who’s spent half an hour sticking reflective dots across a car hood before firing a single scan line knows the frustration. On a vintage Porsche awaiting restoration, those markers can’t touch original paint. Museum artifacts prohibit them entirely. The markers aren’t the point of the job, but until now, there’s been no way around…

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Anyone who’s spent half an hour sticking reflective dots across a car hood before firing a single scan line knows the frustration. On a vintage Porsche awaiting restoration, those markers can’t touch original paint. Museum artifacts prohibit them entirely. The markers aren’t the point of the job, but until now, there’s been no way around them.

SHINING 3D thinks that’s ready to change. Their new EinScan Trak 3D Tracking System is built around the idea that users shouldn’t need to touch the object before scanning it, or need two separate rigs to capture both the big picture and the small details.

The way it eliminates markers is surprisingly straightforward. The system has two components including an optical tracker, essentially a camera unit on a tripod, and a spherical scanner module whi

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