A department is accountable for teaching collections that wear out, cohorts that grow, and research that has to be reproducible by another group.
3D scanning answers all three at once — a digital collection every student can measure, a mock scene recorded once for every cohort, and capture at a stated accuracy that goes into a methods section.
No sensitive case details required.
Research resolutionUp to 0.05 mm handheld, 0.005 mm on the bench — with a specification to cite.
A collection that scalesOne specimen, every student, any campus; replicas printed from the file.
Specimens preservedHandled for scanning, then rarely again.
Mock scenes as datasetsEvery cohort works on the same measured scene and results are compared.
Osteology and trauma teaching: Skeletal material at 0.05 mm in colour; teeth and fragments at 0.005 mm; replicas printed for handling.
Scene work taught on real data: A staged scene captured once with tripod and handheld; students measure, reconstruct and present from it.
Measurement in the software: Students measure, section and compare in Artec Studio; exports go to any analysis or printing pipeline.
Publishable data: Stated accuracy and documented processing give reviewers the reproducibility they ask for.
Teaching collections are finite. A cranium handled by every cohort is a cranium that wears, and a rare pathology specimen cannot be in two seminar rooms. A scanned collection puts the specimen in front of every student on screen and, from watertight STL, in their hands as a printed replica. Forensic anthropology and skull and bone trauma describe what the models carry; forensic odontology covers dentition.
Scene work is taught the same way. A mock scene captured once with a tripod scanner and a handheld becomes the dataset a whole cohort measures, reconstructs and presents — the workflow under crime scene 3D scanning and 3D crime scene reconstruction, on real data, with comparable results year on year.
For research, the argument is the methods section: a device with a stated accuracy, processing documented in the project, a dataset another group can download and re-measure. Departments typically start with a fine-detail handheld for collections and add a scene scanner for teaching; educational configurations are quoted per department, and training and deployment describes what the first term looks like.
The figures are the customers' own, from their published case studies.
Departments typically start with a fine-detail handheld for collections and add a scene scanner for mock scenes.
Up to 0.05 mm accuracy and 0.1 mm resolution with colour — the standard for osteology and trauma work.
Wireless, screen onboard, up to 0.1 mm; the device students learn scene capture on.
0.005 mm on an automated turntable for the finest research data.
See a digital teaching collection and a mock scene dataset in action — book a demo for your department.
Book a demoEducational configurations are quoted per department; ask a specialist.
Yes. Leo in particular is learned in a day and shows coverage on its screen; supervised use is normal in teaching settings.
Yes. Watertight STL from Artec Studio prints as teaching replicas of fragile specimens.
Stated device accuracy and documented processing in the project give the reproducibility reviewers look for; the University of Toronto comparison of scanning against photography is one published example.
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.
