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We've been busy measuring fishing boats for Marine Design International in Glasgow for the past month or so, which has made for interesting travelling with the weather: two cancelled ferries, last minute flights and a delayed flight back from Shetland.

On the heritage side of the business, we're organising a meeting in Machynlleth in april to highlight our European houses project and the breadth of Welsh workers housing we'll be looking at - Copper, Slate and agriculture.

Our associates down at Specialist Models in Cardiff have some photos of the excellent rapid prototype models that they created from our hi-res scanning earlier in the year for the Museum in northern Ireland.

Finally, we're off to do the remaining sections of HMS Victory - more night work

Tags: 3D Laser scanning | Marine design | Marine | hull surveying | SLS | rapid prototyping | archaeological | abouthouses.eu

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We've added a user story on some of the marine laser scanning project we've been working on over the past few moths to the website. Working with a variety of clients, we've been all over the UK and even managed ot soak up some sun in Malta.

The new user story is here and there should be some more information on some archaeological work we did last year coming soon.

Tags: 3D Laser scanning | Marine design | Marine | Rhino | marine engineering | hull surveying | Pointools

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The latest video we've added to our YouTube channel is about some work we did for a team of Naval Architects. Approached by a client to transform a 1950's US Navy tug in to stylish pleasure yacht, the team required an accurate model of the existing hull as a starting point. During a very chilly day in late November, the vessel was loaded on to Parkol Engineering's floating drydock in Whitby, Norh Yorkshire and lifted out of the water. A quick wash to clean the worst of the detritus from the hull and we were able to get in to the dock an perform a series of scans, using the Faro LS880, capturing the hull and superstructure before the vessel was refloated. The scan data was then used to model the hull shape and supply both 2D lines and a 3D IGES hull model, which we used as the basis to design a hull section that faired in with minimum disruption to the existing hull.

The video is here.. and the PDF version of the user story is here..

Tags: Kits | Marine | Marine design | Pointools | 3D Laser scanning