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Cost effectiveness, precision and perfection are the key criteria for today's product development and production optimisation, quality assurance and inspection, as well as reverse engineering and rapid prototyping.

To fulfill these requirements regardless of the complexity of any given task, sophisticated optical methods able to process even difficult geometries, are increasingly applied in the areas of measurement and inspection technology. 

For more than two decades, the Breuckmann company based in Meersburg, Germany, has been an innovative pioneer and leader in developing and manufacturing 3D digitisation and measuring systems. Our 3D sensors are based on the company's patented fringe projection method and as high-end systems provide a highly accurate, reliable and cost-effective instrument for 3D measurements and quality inspection. Characteristic features of all Breuckmann systems are:

• highest resolution and accuracy
• fast data acquisition
• reliable data analysis
• easy handling and optimum flexibility

Owing to these powerful properties, nowadays topometric methods based on the fringe projection technique are adopted in numerous technical, medical and cultural areas for contact-free optical acquisition of complex 3D structures.

Breuckmann 3D Scanners

Owing to their high precision and resolution, our products are widely appreciated around the world. Based on a common core methodology of fringe projection, they cover a very versatile and yet specialised range of applications and product lines. Moreover, our system integral, in-house developed 3D image processing software OPTOCAT offers a comprehensive set of functions for complete 3D solutions.

The technical application fields of the widely diversified product range cover different tasks such as surface inspection of metal components, digitisation of tools, contour inspection of serial components, die contour assignment of design models, die deformation analysis of gears and many more.

Breuckmann also has long-time experience in 3D measurement of the human body (e.g. dental technology, cosmetics, movie production) as well as in arts and cultural heritage (e.g. documentation of cultural assets, 3D scanning of paintings, digitisation of statues).

All Breuckmann scanners are sold worldwide by an international distribution network. This link takes you directly to the overview of official Breuckmann sales partner.  

How does 3D Digitising work?

A sequence of periodic fringes is projected onto the 3D object. Subsequently, both object and resulting fringe pattern are captured by a high-resolution digital camera. By applying geometric triangulation methods to account for changes in the structured light pattern resulting from the object geometry, the 3D information can be derived from the 2D images. Using this data acquisition method, up to 6.6 Mio 3D coordinates can be captured per shot. In order to achieve complete digitisation, topometric measuring typically requires a number of views. For the final alignment of these views, the Breuckmann OPTOCAT software provides a comprehensive choice of navigation strategies:  

• Objects characterised by a distinguished geometry may be aligned after an interactive pre-alignment.
• Various types of markers (size, code) or reference spheres may be placed on the object.
• Combination with photogrammetric methods.
• Real-time tracking systems capable of constantly determining the sensor's position.
• Integrating the sensor into a robot or a coordinate measuring machine.

The views aligned by any of these methods are subsequently merged to result in a common data set of the object. The 3D data may finally be converted into any of the most commonly used data formats.