When Go!SCAN 3D meets crab!

We recently received this image of a rock crab, scanned for an exhibit to be unveiled later this month at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, in California. The critter was digitalized using the newest member of our portable scanner family: the Go!SCAN 3D.

The author, Jay Morewood, a rapid prototyping engineer for Zip-Bit, said that the scan was quite tricky, since the model was very flexible, and had to be positioned only. We always love to hear from users who push the limits of our technology, and it’s especially great for us to see how our new “babies” like the Go!SCAN 3D are adopted by the community. Mr. Morewood said that he was having “a lot of fun with his Go!SCAN 3D,” and was still trying out new poses for the crab. He also expressed a wish we’ve heard a lot in the past few months, that of increasing the resolution of the scanner… Well, we’re not promising anything, but we’re listening.

Another very interesting proof that you can scan anything with the Go!SCAN 3D, and easily generate a file ready for rapid prototyping through Go!MODEL, our companion data processing and modeling software.