Direct Dimensions, Inc. Blog

Direct Dimensions, Inc. provides laser scanning, reverse engineering, and digital modeling services, products, and training. We specialize in the application of laser scanners, digitizers, and portable CMMs, and the conversion of complex 3D data into industrial computer models.

Monday, November 2, 2015

3D Scanning for VFX

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We've been 3D scanning airplanes for twenty years but last fall we were able to use our two decades of experience for a slightly differe...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

3D "House of Dreams"

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Baltimore Arts Realty Corp. broke ground this week on a new maker-space for the city, Open Works. MD Rep Elijah Cummings celebrated the gr...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Virtual Shipwreck Reconstruction

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3D data of ship timbers When repairing a bridge over the Nanticoke River, the Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Adm...
Friday, August 21, 2015

3D Animation of Pterosaur Entertains and Educates at Toledo Zoo

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In 2009 Julia Molnar, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University brought us a set of bone castings from a well preserved pterosaur ske...
Monday, July 27, 2015

USIBD Digital Reality Symposium 2015

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We've been using 3D laser scanning to document as-built conditions for AEC for a long time and think that this technology is a perfect...
Monday, July 20, 2015

The Rosetta Stone: Creating a Digital Replica

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In 1798 Napoleon sent a large corps of scientists and scholars to accompany his troops in Egypt. Intended to establish his Enlightenment cre...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

How to Print a Brain

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When the creators of the "Your Brain" exhibit at The Franklin Institute tried to make a 3D print of a brain model they were turned...
Monday, June 29, 2015

Scanning at the Movies: Terminator: Genisys

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See some of our latest 3D scanning on the big screen this week when Terminator: Genisys arrives in the theaters.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Project Snapshot: Turbines in India

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Turbine measurements in the middle of the night, in India, during monsoon season? No problem!
Monday, May 25, 2015

Project Snapshot: Memorial Day

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3D scanning and modeling Tomb of the Unknowns to facilitate eventual repair or replacement of crack. 3D face scan for the Wounded Warr...
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