Scanning solid objects

The cover feature this month in _Computer-Aided Engineering_ page 56 May issue
is titled "Scanning Product Designs".

A laser scanner is on the cover and a large arm scanner is pictured inside.
This is just an overview of applications, how different types of scanners
work, post processing and the future of digitizing. there are also side-bars
with software vendors and hardware vendors. this won't tell you how to
build one but it is a useful resource to stretch your brain and see what
is being done in the field.

the article is not on the web site so far as i can tell (www.caenet.com)
but there are forms to subscribe. this is one of the free industry mags
so you have to fill in suitable information in their subscription form to
get on the list. (but Don Lancaster has told you how to do it, right?)

a note to Dr. Foot. -- they say there will be a feature article next month
on medical scanning.

-ron wickersham