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Articles
This section contains articles about Laser Design and its products. Most are published in PDF format for use with Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have this program you may download it at no charge from Adobe.
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Creating complex shapes in CAD in a fraction of time
From Product Design & Development- WildCharge was quickly expanding its cell phone product line and needed CAD data from which to create adaptive battery-door covers and, new to the market, thermoplastic elastomer gel covers that wrap around the entire device.
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Laser Probe Solves Glass Maker's Mold Problem
From Product Design & Development-- A leading North American manufacturer of glass tableware noticed a decline in the quality of a glass mug it produced because of wear in its cavity mold. The mugs were no longer to spec with the design model and the company wanted to inspect the cavity mold to determine where the errors were occurring in the as-built product compared to the as-designed model so corrections could be made.
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Laser scanning helps decipher cuneiform tablets
From Motion System Design-- Researchers are one step closer to understanding a culture and people that lived about 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. The Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at Brooklyn College is developing a new approach for the study of ancient cylinder seal impressions and clay tablets bearing cuneiform inscriptions. In the past, the department used a Laser Design Surveyor 3D scanning system from Laser Design Inc. (LDI), Minneapolis, to document primate fossil shapes. Now, the department is using the same system to scan ancient tablets as well.
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Long-line laser scanner speeds complex aircraft cockpit modeling
From Designfax-- Direct Dimensions, Inc. (DDI) was recently contacted by a 3D animation company that specializes in aircraft cockpit ergonomics and human factors analysis to create a 3D model of an existing cockpit within a large commercial aircraft. Due to aircraft scheduling constraints, the two engineers who traveled onsite to complete the project had a limited amount of time to complete the scan of the cockpit. They were done in eight hours.
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Moldmaking in 3-D
From MoldMaking Technology--
A wide range of moldmakers are adopting the emerging technology of 3-D laser scanning in order to improve the accuracy and substantially reduce the time and cost of reverse engineering (RE) and inspection tasks for molds and parts.
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Validating space shuttle heat shield repair
From DesignFax-- The loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia, because of damage to its thermal protection system (TPS) during launch, spurred a search for methods of repairing the TPS in space. The most important and difficult repair to the TPS is the Reinforced Carbon-Carbon (RCC) material used to protect the nose cap and wing leading edge panels.
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