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Leica LR200 Laser Radar Systems

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CoCreate Design and Collaboration Software

Back to the Future With Laser Radar
Leica LR200 Laser Radar Systems

Reduced to the fossilized remnants of its skeleton, a massive T-rex stands in Dinosaur Hall at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. Metrology experts from MAGLEV Inc., Leica Geosystems and MetricVision Inc. have swarmed the dinosaur in recent weeks to scan its surfaces, poring over each fossa and foramen to create the basis for what is intended to be the most accurate and complete digital model of a tyrannosaurus rex to date.

The team’s principal tool was a pair of networked LR200 coherent laser radars. Perched upon 6-foot towers and navigated around the perimeter of the skeleton, the laser radars collected point clouds, 3-D data sets that provide a virtual picture of the creature. The LR200 was an apposite choice; accurate up to 20 µm, it measures large objects with scan rates up to 1,000 points per second at volumes up to 48 m. Furthermore, the Leica LR200 is the first noncontact measurement device to combine radar, laser and 3-D software technologies within the same product.

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University of Pisa Leans on Dynamic Modeling Technology
CoCreate Design and Collaboration Software

Some universities count Nobel laureates among their ranks as a metric for esteem. Others feature politicians or celebrities. However, few universities can claim greater praise for their alumni than Italy’s University of Pisa, a venerable institution that boasts scientific titans Galileo Galilei and Enrico Fermi among its alumni. One of Italy’s oldest and most prestigious universities, Pisa’s engineering program ranks among the best in its class. You would hardly expect less from the resident engineers in a city featuring a certain tower, perhaps the world’s most famous engineering marvel.

With a storied reputation to uphold, the University of Pisa must exercise a certain level of discrimination when selecting engineering software and other applications. When it came time for the school to purchase new design, data management and collaboration software, the institution turned to CoCreate.

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