Creaform’s new HandySCAN BLACK|Elite Limited
Optimized manufacturing and calibration processes enable Creaform’s flagship metrology-grade 3D scanners to deliver 12 microns accuracy.
Creaform, a business unit of AMETEK, Inc. and specialist in portable 3D measurement solutions and engineering services, has announced the addition of the high-accuracy handheld scanner HandySCAN BLACK Elite Limited to the HandySCAN 3D BLACK series lineup. Developed over the last decade by optimizing manufacturing and calibration processes, working closely with suppliers and speaking with several thousands of industrial customers, this handheld solution delivers high levels of accuracy.
Key highlights:
- Provides an accuracy of 0.012 mm (0.0005 in).
- Offers a volumetric accuracy of 0.012 mm +0.020 mm/m (0.0005 in +0.0002 in/ft).
- Powered by smart resolution that highlights fine details and high curvature.
- Uses 11 blue lasers crosses, for an increased scanning speed on difficult surfaces.
- Boasts integrated photogrammetry.
- Portable, lightweight, simple and versatile
- Ideal for Creaform application software, such as VXmodel module for scan-to-CAD, VXinspect module for dimensional inspection and VXintegrity NDT software platform for NDT applications.
Designed specifically to address the needs of the most demanding dimensional metrology professionals in the industrial and manufacturing sectors, the HandySCAN BLACK|Elite Limited is marketed as being able to tackle any quality control or product development applications where tolerances require increased accuracy, while remaining portable and flexible. It is twice as accurate as The HandySCAN BLACK|Elite, assessed through an ISO 17025 accredited calibration, based on VDI/VDE part 3 standard.
This breakthrough metrology solution was fully developed and is manufactured in Creaform’s ISO 9000 headquarters in Canada, where it maintains an ISO 17025 accredited calibration laboratory in-house. “And through its 14 offices located around the world, our commitment to the highest standards is supported by a global team of application engineers and technical support specialists speaking more than 30 languages, as well as more than 150 added value distributors,” says Simon Côté, Product Manager at Creaform.
The HandySCAN BLACK|Elite Limited will be available for delivery starting March 1, 2023.