7D Works

7D Works, a company specialized in the digitization and reproduction of works of art, uses several Kreon systems on portable articulated arms for its heritage preservation applications:

• Digitization of the famous sculpture of the Queen of Saba at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, with the aim of making a reproduction that would replace the original statue at the Cathedral of Reims. 3.50m high, the statue was entirely scanned with a Kreon scanner according to strict specifications: high accuracy reproduction without moldmaking nor moving of the original artefact during execution.
• Reproduction of Saint Augustine’s head, extracted from a platform of the Church of Brou (France) and dated from the 16th century. The reproduction of the alabaster head in full size was made upon request of the Sculptures Department of the Louvre Museum in Paris.
• Digitization and reproduction of the portal of former Abbey of Champmol, established in 1384 by Philip II, Duke of Burgundy, known as The Bold. The Kreon systems were used for digitizing and rebuilding the portal that features five canopies with highly sculpted forms. Kreon’s technology was used for the detailed complex shapes (sculptures and mouldings) and for the frontage (stone by stone).

For 7D Works, using Kreon scanners presents many advantages, such as lightness, comfort of use of the portable system, which allows on-site digitization, great accuracy, no contact with the ancient and fragile parts, and no limitation in the size of the digitized objects.

The 3D models generated eliminate constraints linked to physical archiving of artefacts such as staining and spotting and permit fast and easy access to the 3D models, easy handling and analysis of data, possibility to create and compare models. The models are directly available for reproduction in different materials and in different scales.

Factum Arte

Involved in the reproduction of one of the throne rooms of King Ashurnasirpal II’s palace, built more than 800 years B.C. in Nimrud (current Irak), the Spanish company Factum Arte uses the Kreon Zephyr KZ50 scanner mounted on a 7-axis arm to digitize large-scale sculptures and surfaces with complex reliefs.

That portable scanning solution fulfils the Factum Arte’s needs to obtain digital reproductions of existing artworks to allow their restoration.

Poujoulat

Cheminées Poujoulat have been devoting their expertise for more than thirty years to the design of complete smoke evacuation systems for houses, apartment buildings and industries.

Cheminées Poujoulat became a standard for flues, joints, casings, chimney stacks, flue for airtight boilers, smoke extractors, mufflers…

Poujoulat’s research department uses a Kreon Solano laser scanner with a Baces measuring arm to digitize hundreds of references of roofing tiles.
This allows them to virtually simulate all forms of roofs (with any type of tile, roof slopes…) to fit at best the stacks (external parts of the chimneys). This has enabled them to reduce the time and costs of adaptation of the stacks.

University of Lecad (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

The University of Lecad is specialized in design and prototyping.

The laboratory of Lecad has many prototyping and manufacturing machines. They use the Kreon scanner with an arm and also on a machine tool to digitize models or parts to rebuild in 3D.