What are Demon3D’s inspection features?

Demon3D provides you with full inspection capabilities suitable for comparing multiple scans and/or CAD models for volumetric difference. The differences between the datasets are colour-coded for ease of differentiation and both accretion and erosion (positive and negative changes) are accurately tracked.

Condition Monitoring of Pictish Sculpture

Who are these features useful for?

Inspection is useful in several sectors including engineering, heritage management and surveying:

1. Engineers use inspection processes to determine whether an as-built part matches the original CAD specification. Additionally, they might use inspection to quantify wear and tear on a part to determine whether it might need replacing.
2. Heritage management uses for inspection include decay monitoring and weathering monitoring on outdoor monuments, such as Pictish sculptured stones or Anglo-Saxon runic crosses, erosion monitoring on outdoor sculpture and even monitoring vandalism and theft on key monuments.

3. Surveyors might use our inspection functionality to compare land surfaces and structures for subsidence, compacting of quarry spoil heaps, collapse of quarry rock faces and even progress of building demolition.

All of these sectors require a high-level of accuracy in quantifying differences between datasets.

Turbine Blade showing differences between scan data and CAD model

Why would these features be useful to me?

1. From an engineering perspective, inspection is an extremely useful feature for quantifying differences between designed and manufactured parts.
2. From a heritage management perspective, accurately quantifying deterioration in monuments can enable the creation of management plans to protect monuments from further damage.
3. From a survey perspective, dangerous spoil heaps can now be accurately monitored for collapse from a safe distance. Even volcanic activity could be monitored and changes in cone shape determined using Demon3D’s powerful inspection tools.