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Optical CMM 3D scanners built for shop-floor precision and production control.

The MetraSCAN 3D delivers high-accuracy, portability, and reliability for demanding manufacturing environments. Designed specifically for quality control and production validation, this optical CMM scanner enables precise measurements directly on the shop floor without compromising performance or stability.

About the MetraSCAN 3D

The MetraSCAN 3D is engineered for industrial environments where measurement accuracy and repeatability are critical. Built to perform reliably in real-world production conditions, this optical CMM system delivers consistent results even in unstable environments affected by vibrations and temperature variations.

Optimized for quality control, assembly validation, and dimensional inspection, the MetraSCAN 3D enables professionals to confidently measure complex geometries, large components, and challenging materials with precision and efficiency.

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MetraSCAN 3D in Action

See how the MetraSCAN 3D performs in real-world inspection and production control workflows.

Why Choose the MetraSCAN 3D

Metrology-Grade Accuracy

Deliver highly accurate and repeatable measurements suitable for industrial quality standards.

Designed for Shop-Floor Conditions

Engineered to maintain precision in environments affected by movement, vibration, and temperature changes.

Optical CMM Performance

Achieve CMM-level measurement capabilities without fixed installations or dedicated metrology rooms.

Efficient Inspection Workflows

Reduce inspection time with fast data acquisition and streamlined dimensional validation processes.

Applications & Use Cases

Portable 3D scanners support a wide range of industrial and engineering workflows across multiple industries.

Product Development and Design

3D Scanning Solutions for Product Development and Design

Product development refers to all of the stages involved in bringing a product to market—from inception through conception and engineering design to product development. Computer-aided design (CAD) software is used as a design tool to enhance product development.

As project managers, senior engineers, or engineering directors, you are responsible for finding ideas that lead to new product introduction. Innovation is the essential element that maintains your company’s competitive edge through the development of new technologies, new projects, new angles, and new niches that help you surpass your competitors.

As design engineers or industrial designers, you participate in all of the activities related to product development and implementation. You must first determine if the design intent is feasible and if all of the necessary tools and software to realize the whole project are accessible and available. Then, you design parts (often with complex shapes and geometries) and create 3D models while minimizing iterations in order to shorten the design cycle.

Product Development and Design

3D Scanning Solutions for Product Development and Design

Quality Assurance & Quality Control

3D Scanning Solutions for Quality Control & Quality Assurance (QA/QC)

Quality assurance (QA), on the other hand, consists of a set of procedures that prevent mistakes and defects in the different steps of the manufacturing process in order to avoid non- compliance when delivering parts to customers. Dimensional quality control (QC) is a process that measures the dimensions of manufactured parts to ensure that they adhere to a defined set of quality criteria and match customers’ requirements.

As QA engineers, you are in charge of investigating the problems raised by QC and production, performing the root cause analysis (often under pressure), and implementing corrective actions quickly to limit downtime. Through this process, you will also look for ways to improve the manufacturing process while minimizing production costs and lead time.

As QC managers, you have the delicate task of ensuring—even improving—the quality of the manufactured parts by applying effective controls performed with reliable, fast, and easy-to- use measuring equipment. You are also responsible for testing and validating the true performance of these instruments. Therefore, equipment unavailability, inefficiency, and limitations are obstacles to your work performance.

Reverse Engineering

Pipeline 3D Scanning Solutions for Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) in Oil & Gas

Reverse engineering is a process that involves measuring a physical object and reconstructing it as a 3D model to recover the design intent—a perfect reconstruction of the original design—in terms of simple analytical surfaces (planes, cylinders, etc.) and freeform surfaces (NURBS) in order to produce a new reference CAD model.

As CAD engineers and industrial designers, you have the critical task of adapting and maintaining parts with shapes that are frequently organic and complex. Since the CAD models are often no longer available or difficult to find, you have to reconstruct the 3D models and integrate them into the design.

The reasons for reverse engineering are multiple: to replace damaged components (for which CAD models are nonexistent), to update obsolete parts, to fit new parts into a current assembly or environment, to generate new manufacturing plans, or simply to analyze competitors’ product features. 3D scanners are generally the preferred technology for extracting dimensional information and representing it as a point cloud or an automatic and instant mesh.

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Available Models in This Series

CREAFORM

MetraSCAN Black+™ | Elite 3D Scanner

CREAFORM

MetraSCAN Black+™ | Elite 3D Scanner + HandyPROBE