3D Scanning Services — Handheld, On-Site, Nationwide

Three things set the price: time on site to capture (most single objects or pre-pour areas are a half-day; a module, skid, or failure site is usually a full day), processing hours for the deliverable you order (a cleaned mesh is quick; parametric CAD or a deviation report against drawings takes longer), and travel from the nearest of our 27 hubs. Send photos, rough dimensions, and the deliverable you need and we return a written quote. Day-rate scanning for engineering firms and surveyors is quoted as a flat daily rate plus processing.

The Artec Leo we use is rated by its manufacturer at 3D point accuracy up to 0.1 mm and 3D resolution up to 0.2 mm, with accuracy over distance of 0.1 mm + 0.3 mm/m. On a 2 m object that is sub-millimeter; across a 12 m module we control drift with a tape-measure backbone and overlapping scan zones, and we state the achieved accuracy on every report rather than quoting a brochure number.

The Leo is built for objects from roughly 20 cm up to about 2 m — anchor bolt clusters, pump parts, impellers, failed connections, pipe spools, precast panels, skids. Larger assemblies and container-size units are scanned in overlapping zones with reference points so the pieces register into one model. Whole buildings and sitewide topography are terrestrial laser scanner or drone work; we do not sell that, and we will say so when it is what you need.

Both. Field scanning is the point of a handheld scanner: we scan rebar mats, failures, piping, and equipment where they sit, including live plants with the right permits. Parts that can be moved can be shipped or dropped at our Sugar Land, Texas office and scanned there.

Meshes as STL, OBJ (with texture), PLY, or WRL; point clouds as E57, PTX, ASC, or XYZRGB for registration into your laser-scanning project; CAD as STEP, IGES, or Parasolid; measurements and deviation reports as PDF, CSV, and DXF. Tell us what software opens on your end and we export for it.

Bare machined steel, black rubber, wet concrete, and glass are the hard cases for any structured-light scanner. We handle them with a removable scanning spray or powder where the surface allows it, by scanning at the angles the material tolerates, and by telling you in the quote when a surface will need treatment so there are no surprises on site.

You do. Raw scans, processed meshes, and CAD are delivered to you and retained in our files only for your reorders unless you ask us to purge them. NDAs are signed before mobilization, and we work under client site-safety and security programs in plants and secure facilities.

A terrestrial laser scanner stands on a tripod and captures rooms and sites at millimeter-to-centimeter accuracy. A handheld structured-light scanner captures objects at a tenth of a millimeter with full color, from every angle, including undersides and inside openings. Survey and laser-scanning firms subcontract us for exactly that detail work; our handheld scanning page explains the arrangement.