The FreeScan Trak Nova is one of the
most interesting scanners in the range.
It tackles a very interesting problem in a very interesting way,
and that is positioning markers.
If you've ever used a 3D scanner before,
you'll know that lots of them,
including lots to be shown today,
are using little positioning markers to figure out where they are.
They're essentially little reflective stickers,
but you've got to stick them on anything that you want to scan.
The FreeScan Trak Nova gets away from using
positioning markers by being a two-part system.
You can see behind us,
we've got the track bar,
and here we've got the TE Nova,
which is the scanner itself.
And instead of the TE Nova trying to figure out
where it is by looking at positioning markers,
the track bar figures out where the TE Nova is.
So as I'm moving this around,
the track bar follows it,
and it knows where we are in space.
The advantage of this is we can scan very large
parts very quickly with no surface preparation.
We can just set up the track bar,
set up the scanner,
and start scanning.
It's very quick to use.
What's really special is that the UE Nova,
when used by itself,
is essentially an enormous laser scanner.
It has about 2m by 2m of view,
and it's very fast to pick up data.
So if you want to scan a really large area very quickly,
it's perfect for it.
It does follow positioning markers,
but they're much bigger than the standard marker,
and they spread out much further apart,
so it's way quicker to put them on and take them off.
This is ideal if you want to inspect things
like wind turbine blades or helicopters,
buses,
large vehicles, large objects.
This is what it's made for.
If you want to use the system for inspection,
you can also use the FreeProbe,
which is a probe that links up to the TrackNova and allows you
to take probe points directly inside your inspection software,
either Shining Inspect or Polyworks.
How this works is you go,
place the probe on the surface you want to take,
and then you push the button to take that point.
So this allows you to measure between points on a part,
take whole centre lines,
create planes.
You can basically measure any feature you can imagine inside
the inspection software without having to capture the mesh.
This is very good if you want to inspect lots of features
very quickly without having to scan the whole thing as a mesh.
Overall,
the FreeScan Trak Nova is the absolute best scanner if you're trying
to scan anything from really small to really large with minimal work.
It's very easy to use,
it's very quick to set up,
and everything's wireless,
so you don't have to worry about cables dragging around
the place when you're working on such large scales.