Abstract
A buyer's-eye survey of 3D imaging and the standards that were, and were not, available to judge it by in 2010. Chuck Pfeffer reviews the technology family by family – area imagers, line scanners, single-point scanners including conoscopic holography, and CT scanners with their X-ray tube, detectors and rotating gantry – and then turns to the only standard that then covered any of it, VDI/VDE 2634 Parts 2 and 3, working through its probing error and form tests in detail: a sphere ten to twenty per cent of the body diagonal, ten positions, a best fit excluding the worst 0.3 per cent. The question in the title is not rhetorical; the talk is about what you can and cannot yet prove about a scan.
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Chuck Pfeffer. FARO Technologies, Inc. Presented at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference 2010, Reno, Nevada, July 12-16, 2010. Coordinate Metrology Society, reference CMS-2010-002.