Why do you need an ‘3D-Apparat’?

In the age of digitization, the demand for high-quality 3D data and real 3D presentations of objects is increasing significantly: from the product presentation in the online shop, the digitization and archiving of cultural assets in museums, the photo-realistic representation of objects in virtual and augmented reality applications up to the reverse engineering of products and components. The range of applications for true-to-life, three-dimensional images is manifold. And with this, the challenges increase…

How do you get high-quality 3D data?

Actually, this question can be directly amended by the requirement: How can you accomplish that without any specialist knowledge, in consistently high quality and as fast as possible?

The 3D-Apparat is the ideal bridge builder for this purpose. Fully automated, it transfers objects from the real world to the virtual world. On a rotating glass pane, objects are photographed all around from all angles. The photos are then automatically transferred to a software, which calculates 3D objects from them. The 3D device takes care of all these processes, from the first photo to the proper filing and naming in your file system. The only thing you have to do is swap the object and press a button.

The crucial difference!

Of course, you can also scan real objects WITHOUT the 3D-Appart and work them out to 3D objects using photogrammetry calculation. For this you need at least one camera, Agisoft Metashape and a powerful workstation.

The crucial difference of the 3D device is that it optimally standardizes and fully automates all work steps that you would have to do yourself otherwise. You only have to touch the object once! This reduces typical sources of error in photography and software settings and saves a lot of time!

So if you want to scan several objects daily, you will notice the difference in quality AND quantity within a very short time.

3D-Apparat 720° XL

With the 3D Apparat we offer a unique, automated 720° studio, with which objects can be “scanned” from all sides in one process step. Using the advanced photogrammetry software (PhotoScan/Metashape), a textured 3D object is generated from the photo data.

Easy. Fast. Automated.

The Technology of Photogrammetry is the Basis For the 3D-Apparat

Photogrammetry is a method with which certain software recognizes the same spots on several overlapping photos. It depicts these in a scatter plot, interconnects them and creates a textured 3D object in the end. It is the only scanning method in which the proper surface (texture) is preserved, hence being available for further processing.

2D-Apparat 360° Photo Studio

Sometimes it does not have to be 3D!

If you run an online shop or regularly need product images for printing, you may be satisfied with an automated product photography and 360° rotating web photos for better visualization. The 2D device offers exactly that, fully automated, perfectly cropped and in print quality!

You no longer need a product photographer. Save time and money.

Experience 3D on the internet

This example shoe is actually no real 3D, but only a web view of the object.

You can rotate it and even look at it from above and below. Just drag the mouse up or down!

Features of the 2D-Apparat

  • 20 photos
  • 3 angle of view
  • Completely created in 300 seconds
  • Completely and automatically cropped images
  • Image size can be determined by you