3D Scanning in Art & Architecture Library

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academics 1:10 3D Scanning in Art & Architecture Library

By:

Elizabeth McVoy

5 Jun 2019 314

The University Libraries Art and Architecture Library at Virginia Tech houses collections in visual arts, art history, architecture, decorative arts, and design. And now it is also home to two 3D Systems Sense Scanners, handheld, short range 3D Scanners that capture and process data in real time to generate a complete polygon mesh.

Available to students and faculty, the Sense scanner increases efficiency when converting a physical model into the digital world. This exciting technology lowers barriers for creatives and helps them iterate, scale, and finish designs for production.

[00:00:01] >> My name is Ben say I'm an associate professor in industrial design here in the School of Architecture plus design so and industrial design we often. Start out doing sketches of ideas to solve some problems and then we break quickly move into physical models where the goal of that item is to be manufactured at some point in time so eventually it has to get into the digital world and what opportunity is 3 D. scanning so in the art architecture library we have available to sense scanners which work on photogrammetry as a method for capturing the image for as the technology we have available one thing that I appreciated as a faculty is in trying to plan out how I might implement technology in my courses was the ability to check out the scanner and then be able to have some extended time to work with it and hopefully develop some curriculum and that same option or opportunity is there for our students as they're working on their projects and knowing that they have available the equipment that they need that's very very helpful.

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