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.2021