There’s a pretty cool 3D scanner project active over on Kickstarter right now. It hits a couple key features as I see it…interfaces to an iPad for portability and ease of use, and is a reasonable cost ($329). I think this will be cool for capturing rough cad data of large objects and I look forward to trying it out with SolidWorks when it ships in 2014.
3D scanner on Kickstarter
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