 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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