Machine Design

Dimensions, tolerances, and more right on the model

A new standard establishes guidelines for documenting digital 3D models. The recent ASME standard Y14.41 establishes requirements, exceptions, and guidelines for documenting digital solid models in 3D ...
Technical

Digitizing the world: Direct Dimensions builds a business on 3D scanning

Anyone heading to the movies to see Russell Crowe shepherd the animals of earth into a massive wooden ark when “Noah” comes out tomorrow won’t see any trace of what made that computer-generated ark ...
Machine Design

Mathematical Model Works In Six Dimensions for Accurate Large Machine Positioning Design and Test

• When the size of the work exceeds 1 m, angular errors become amplified in three dimensions at a rate of 5 μm/arc-sec/m. • In a typical situation, the global XYZ machine-coordinate system is defined ...
GIGAZINE

You can understand what kind of future will be possible by looking at a movie that actually uses Google 's "Project Tango" which 3D scans the space in 3D with a smartphone and ...

Google aims to 3D model objects and spaces in real time by combining smartphone cameras and infrared sensorsProject Tango"Has become an advanced technology that is expected to be applied to various ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models

The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt.