A reconstructionist is paid for a defensible answer, on a deadline, from a scene that has usually been cleared by the time the instruction arrives.
3D capture gives the practice the data the analysis runs on — road, vehicles, marks, rest positions — in the formats the simulation software takes, and a dataset the other side's expert can examine and re-measure.
No sensitive case details required.
Straight into the simulationE57, OBJ and PLY into the reconstruction package your practice runs.
Crush at any stationDeformation measured against undamaged geometry — for the energy and delta-v work.
Less time per vehicleThree to four hours with a tripod laser scanner to under one with Leo, in the Origin Forensics case.
Checkable by the other sideThe opposing expert measures the same file; the dispute moves to interpretation.
The roadway as data: Gradients, debris and rest positions captured from a tripod as geometry, tyre marks in the scan's intensity and colour — one dataset for the simulation.
Vehicles inside and out: Crush profiles and intrusion measured on the model at any station the analysis later needs.
Deliverables counsel can use: The same geometry drives the simulation and the courtroom animation, so nothing is redrawn between them.
An archive for the next instruction: A vehicle scanned in the yard is measured again when a new question arrives — without the vehicle.
A reconstruction practice is judged on three things: whether the analysis holds, how fast the report arrives, and how the evidence stands up when the other side's expert goes through it. All three rest on the geometry the analysis started from — and that geometry is captured under pressure to reopen a road, or in a yard weeks later.
Traffic accident reconstruction and crash vehicle scanning describe the capture. What matters to the practice is what comes out: E57 point clouds and OBJ or PLY meshes that load into the reconstruction and simulation software already in use, crush profiles at any station for the energy and delta-v calculations, and a scene model that the courtroom animation is built on rather than redrawn from. Origin Forensics reported vehicle scans falling from three to four hours with a tripod laser scanner to under one with Artec Leo — more of the inspection window left for the rest of the work, and a report that can start sooner.
The dataset also settles a recurring argument. The opposing expert receives the same file and takes the same measurements; disagreement becomes a matter of interpretation, not of whose sketch to believe. Where a sightline is in question, line-of-sight analysis runs on the same model.
The figures are the customers' own, from their published case studies.
Range for the road, detail for the vehicles. Many reconstruction practices run both.
Up to 0.1 mm, wireless, screen onboard. Origin Forensics' figure — three to four hours per vehicle down to under one — was measured on this work.
Up to 130 m range, a dome in about 1.7 minutes (2.7 with colour), 1.9 mm at 10 m. No targets on the road.
See site and vehicle geometry captured ready for your reconstruction software — book a demo for your practice.
Book a demoYes. Artec Studio exports E57, OBJ, PLY, STL and other formats that reconstruction and simulation packages import directly.
Less time on site — Origin Forensics reported vehicle scans falling from three to four hours with a tripod laser scanner to under one with Leo — and coverage checked on screen before leaving, so fewer return visits for a missed measurement. Processing still follows at the office.
The same file, in open formats. They measure what you measured; the argument moves to interpretation.
Yes, and the model is then archived against the next question. Note in the report that transport may have altered the geometry, as you would for any yard inspection.
A forensic application specialist will come back with the device that fits it, the accuracy to expect at that scale, and how the data reaches your existing workflow.
