Royal Netherlands Navy is 3D scanning all their ships

[southwestforests]

Andrei Vakulenko, chief business development officer at Artec 3D, says the benefits go beyond a quick turnaround. “When you build any large object, be it a military plane or ship,” he says, “the slight inaccuracies that occur during construction build up quite significantly, so the difference in the length of two ships of the same design could be several meters. So the only real way to know the exact size and shape of the ship would be to 3D scan it.”

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/1/1...an-ships-artec

“In most cases, parts for the ships are being reverse engineered or newly created; this is especially the case in older navy vessels where the suppliers of the components no longer exist.”

Scanning the Dutch navy - Naval Technology