Project News & Case Studies

We work with customers around the world, in a wide variety of industries, large and small projects, one man companies to fortune 500’s, our goal is to provide fast and accurate results. Below are examples of our work along with news releases to keep you informed of what’s going on in the World of 3D Measurement. Sign-up today for our semi-monthly enews delivered right to your inbox!

Rapid Manufacturing at its Fastest: Boosted by Laser Scanning

Rapid Manufacturing at its Fastest: Boosted by Laser Scanning

You have a carefully crafted clay prototype made by a top design artist. Each detail is exquisite and you want to make sure every last one is molded into the finished article. How can you quickly and accurately digitize your intricate free-form shape and then fabricate it on a condensed timeline?

3D Laser Scanning: An Innovative Aid for Marine Applications--Repair, Retrofit, Replace, Refurbish, Renovate, Repurpose, Restore

3D Laser Scanning: An Innovative Aid for Marine Applications--Repair, Retrofit, Replace, Refurbish, Renovate, Repurpose, Restore

Today’s marine technologies encompass work in the fields of transportation, merchant markets, and the military, as well as underwater exploration, offshore drilling platforms, and high-speed and pleasure crafts. Under their umbrella are the most complex mobile structures in the world, and millions of people’s lives and livelihoods depend on them.

Supercharger: Designing Aftermarket Part from Casting

Supercharger: Designing Aftermarket Part from Casting

The customer was designing an improved aftermarket supercharger from the external casting of an old OEM stock supercharger, for which there was no CAD model.

Laser Design Offers High-speed CT Scanners

Laser Design Offers High-speed CT Scanners

Laser Design Inc. (LDI) has signed on as an exclusive authorized reseller of North Star Imaging, Inc.’s (NSI) innovative M500 and M5000 Computed Tomography (CT) scanners in North America and Southeast Asia.

“GKS Global Services” Expands Global Reach of Service Business

“GKS Global Services” Expands Global Reach of Service Business

GKS Global Services announced that is has changed its name from GKS Inspection Services to reflect the broader scope and range of GKS’s service offerings and worldwide locations.

GKS Now Offers Specialized Marine 3D Scanning

GKS Now Offers Specialized Marine 3D Scanning

GKS Marine Services offers laser scanning for marine applications. 3D scanning for marine applications, also called long-range scanning, is a ground-based technique for collecting high-density 3D data to create digital models of complex entities such as seagoing vessels, offshore platforms, ships’ systems, vintage boats, and other big structures and locations, both inside and out.

3D Laser Scanning Makes an “Impression” on the Dental Profession

3D Laser Scanning Makes an “Impression” on the Dental Profession

Dentistry’s roots date back to prehistoric times when the practice consisted mainly of tooth drilling and extractions. Today dentists, orthodontists, and oral surgeons need advanced technologies to support their advanced care of the teeth, gums, and supporting bone structures.

The Big Show: Unusual Large-scale Laser Scanning Projects

The Big Show: Unusual Large-scale Laser Scanning Projects

GKS’s veteran metrologists have performed many unusual scans in their careers. Some that have come to the fore in the recent years are big, really big—large-scale in fact.

Laser Design Offers SLP-500 High-Speed Laser Probe

Laser Design Offers SLP-500 High-Speed Laser Probe

Laser Design Inc. announced that its next-generation line of 3D laser scanning probes has a new member, the SLP-500.

Just what the Doctor Ordered: Innovative Medical Applications of Non-Contact 3D Scanning

Just what the Doctor Ordered: Innovative Medical Applications of Non-Contact 3D Scanning

When you think of "Medicine" what comes to mind? An emergency room full of accident victims? A researcher curing diseases in the developing world? Or just getting rid of your own annoying low-back pain? What you probably don’t think of are high-precision non-contact scanning technologies.

Where Oil and Water Could Well Mix: Laser Scanning

Where Oil and Water Could Well Mix: Laser Scanning

Offshore oil production facilities provide tremendous dimensional control challenges throughout their entire lifecycle – but there is a solution.

3D Scanning at Laser-Light Speed

3D Scanning at Laser-Light Speed

In the competitive speed-driven manufacturing environment of today’s consumer cell phone and electronic device markets, extreme speed and accuracy are mandatory. However, the complexity of shapes and details on the devices create a major speed bump on the road to rapid CAD models.

Good night and sweet dreams! Accurate scanning of CAD files and injection molded prototype parts help launch new anti-snoring device

Good night and sweet dreams! Accurate scanning of CAD files and injection molded prototype parts help launch new anti-snoring device

A company developed an initial prototype of an anti-snoring device based on many years of research in the field of dentistry. He designed and created a functional device that comfortably and healthily helps cure snoring.