Inventors:
Anthony James Buser - Reading PA, US
Ariel Douglas - Brooklyn NY, US
Nathaniel B. Pettis - Brooklyn NY, US
Assignee:
MakerBot Industries, LLC - Brooklyn NY
International Classification:
G06K 9/00
H04N 13/02
US Classification:
348 46, 382141, 348E13074
Abstract:
A three-dimensional printer includes a laser line scanner and hardware to rotate the scanner relative to an object on a build platform. In this configuration, three-dimensional surface data can be obtained from the object, e.g., for use as an input to subsequent processing steps such as the generation of tool instructions to fabricate a three-dimensional copy of the object, or various surfaces thereof.