⚠️ Editor's Note: This product has been discontinued. This page is for reference only. View the current Faro Scene software page.

FARO Technologies, Inc., the world market leader in portable computer-aided measurement arms and laser tracker sales, today announced that it released FARO Scene v4.1, which offers a faster workflow and improved quality for its Laser Scanner LS product.

“FARO Scene is our user-friendly software for viewing, administering, calibrating, filtering, and managing large, 3D point clouds collected with our Laser Scanner LS,” FARO President and CEO Jay Freeland said.

“Version 4.1 increases productivity by dramatically reducing the amount of on-site scanning time, and enables users to process and present their results more effectively.”

The FARO Laser Scanner is a portable, computerized measurement device that scans, digitally recreates, and records all of an object or area’s dimensions, creating what looks like a “photograph” on the computer screen, but in 3D. The captured data can be used to create a digital model for inspection, reverse-engineering, CAD-to-part comparison, factory planning, or investigations for industries ranging from power, process and piping to forensics, surveying and historical preservation.

Enhancements in FARO Scene v4.1 include:

• New Wi-Fi/WLAN Scanner Connection enables users to control scanning from their PDA, mobile phone, laptop, or other Internet Explorer-equipped devices
• Advanced noise reduction for cleaner scans.
• More than 86% faster Color Capture speed (2-3 minutes versus 15 minutes) for very high quality and automatic overlays of 50 million color pixels.
• Fully automatic Color Scan White Balancing for improved contrast and clarity.
• New color bracket and calibration method minimizes parallax errors and maximizes the fit of color on 3D shapes.
• Compatibility with NIKON D70s or NIKON D200 cameras for color scanning.
• Automatic filter action improves scan quality and dramatically shortens post-processing time.
• New Draw-to-CAD feature enables users to create 3D AutoCAD drawings on the fly just by sketching lines in FARO Scene’s Photo-View.
• CAD files may now be imported not only in VRML2, but also VRML1.

“FARO Scene v4.1 brings several major benefits to our customers and expands on our unique solution for professionals in laser scanning,” said Dr. Bernd-Dietmar Becker, FARO’s Director of Marketing & Product Management for Laser Scanning.

“Our test customers are very excited about the new features – especially the ability to scan with a handheld Wi-Fi device and create AutoCAD drawings.”

The upgrade is available for free to existing LS customers with v4.