A comparative study of 3D scanning in engineering, product and transport design and fashion design education

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the use of three-dimensional (3D)
scanning technologies for design and engineering courses. This paper will provide a
comparative discussion of the current 3D scanning technologies; and then describes three
experimental studies in engineering, transport design and fashion design. Using 3D scanner
technology the experiments tested the transferral of a variety of different data from scanned
organic 3D shapes to 3D CAD packages for learning and teaching in undergraduate education.
2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 17: 263271, 2009; Published online in Wiley
InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com); DOI 10.1002/cae.20213