(Laser Design: Minneapolis, Minnesota) -- Laser Design Inc., the leading supplier of 3-D laser scanners for more than 20 years, announced that its next generation of 3-D laser scanning probes has a new member, the SLP-500. The company's new and improved Surveyor Laser Probes (SLP) are faster and more accurate than their predecessors.  

“Our faster and more accurate laser probes give us the competitive edge in 3-D scanning technology, ” says C. Martin Schuster, president of Laser Design. The new SLP-500 model is a high precision probe that delivers virtually noise-free scan data as a result of breakthrough, proprietary advances in the electronics and optics architecture.

The lightweight SLP-500, with a laser line length of 50 mm, scans at ultra-high speeds with an accuracy of up to 20 µm and is primarily used for mid- to large-sized objects such as molds, stampings, and sheet metal. All the SLP model including the SLP-250 for small parts, the SLP-400 for medium-sized objects, and the SLP-2000 for large parts, can be used with the company’s fully integrated WS-Series and DS-Series lines of coordinate measurement machine- (CMM) based scanning systems as well as with Faro portable CMMs. 

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