Equipment Rental

Rent the MIRACO Plus 3D Scanner — Trained, Ready, and Returned

Most shops that need a 3D scanner do not need one very often. They need it for a reverse-engineering job, or to capture an as-built before a tie-in, and then it sits. Two or three scans every six months is a normal pattern — and it is a hard pattern to justify buying a scanner for.

So we rent ours. You get the MIRACO Plus, you get trained on it, you do your scans, and you give it back. No purchase, no software to install, no license to maintain, and nothing sitting in a cabinet depreciating between jobs.

What the MIRACO Plus is

The MIRACO Plus is an all-in-one handheld 3D scanner from Revopoint. The word that matters there is all-in-one: the scanner, the processor, and the screen are a single 750-gram device. There is no laptop, no cable, no capture box, and no PC software to set up.

It uses a quad-camera infrared structured-light system with 2× infrared optical zoom to capture the shape of a physical object as a 3D model. It is billed as the first standalone 3D scanner with photogrammetric metrology capability — which is the part that separates it from everything else in its class, and we will come back to it below.

What it does well, in plain terms:

• Small parts and big assemblies with the same tool. Near mode picks up features on a part roughly 10 mm across. Far mode captures something the size of a vehicle. You switch between them mid-scan.
• Accuracy you can build from. Up to 0.02 mm precision and 0.04 mm single-frame accuracy — inside the tolerance most structural and plate work is held to.
• Everything happens on the device. It runs its own software on an 8-core 2.4 GHz processor with 32 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage. Fusion, meshing, and editing all happen in your hands, so you confirm the model is good while you are still standing next to the part.
• It goes where the work is. A 5,000 mAh battery good for about two hours of scanning, a 6-inch 2K AMOLED touchscreen that tilts 180°, and a 9-axis IMU for stable walk-around scans.
• Color, not just geometry. A 48-megapixel RGB camera captures texture, so corrosion, weld discoloration, and paint condition show up in the model.

The photogrammetry part, and why it matters

Here is the problem with scanning anything large. A handheld scanner builds a model by stitching thousands of frames together, and every stitch carries a tiny error. Over a small part that is irrelevant. Over something the length of a trailer, those errors accumulate and the far end of the model drifts out of position. The surface detail looks fine; the overall dimensions are not trustworthy.

Photogrammetry fixes that. You place coded targets around the object and the scanner establishes a measured, global framework of reference points first. The scan data is then locked to that framework instead of accumulating drift frame by frame. The result is a large model whose overall dimensions hold up, not just one that looks right.

The published length accuracy is 0.02 mm + 0.05 mm × L, where L is the measuring distance in meters. In practical terms, across a 4-meter object that works out to roughly a fifth of a millimeter — over a distance where a hand measurement would be lucky to get within several millimeters.

The Photogrammetric Metrology Kit rents with the scanner. It includes a high-precision calibration board, a scale bar, near-mode and far-mode calibration boards, and coded targets in both magnetic and adhesive form, so you can set up on steel or on anything else.

Why renting makes more sense than buying

The usage pattern does not support ownership. If you are scanning a handful of times a year, a purchased scanner spends the overwhelming majority of its life in a case. Renting puts the cost against the job that needs it.

There is no IT project attached. This is the part people underestimate with scanners generally. A conventional setup means a workstation that meets the spec, driver installs, licensed software, and updates to keep current. The MIRACO Plus is self-contained — it arrives configured and ready, and you hand it back the same way.

The metrology kit is included. Photogrammetry hardware is a meaningful purchase on its own, and it is exactly the sort of thing that gets bought once and then used twice. It comes with the rental.

You do not carry the technology risk. Scanning hardware moves quickly. A unit bought today is a dated unit in a few years, and that is our problem to manage, not yours.

No calibration or upkeep on your side. The scanner and the calibration boards come to you checked and ready to work.

We train you on it

A scanner nobody knows how to drive is not useful, so training is part of the rental rather than an extra. We walk you through setup, the two capture modes, how to choose near versus far mode for the part in front of you, how to get a clean scan on difficult surfaces, how to lay out coded targets when a job needs the photogrammetry workflow, and how to fuse and mesh the result on the device. It is a practical session on real parts, not a manual handed across a counter.

Most people are scanning competently the same day. And if you get partway into a job and hit something odd, call us — support during the rental is part of the deal.

What people rent it for

• Reverse engineering legacy parts. An obsolete component with no drawings becomes a clean mesh, then a model, then a part that can be cut.
• Fit-up verification. Scan the existing structure before fabricating the tie-in, so the piece fits the first time instead of being trimmed in the field.
• Large-format measurement. Vehicles, trailers, tanks, skids — the jobs where the photogrammetry workflow earns its keep.
• As-built documentation. A dimensioned 3D record of what actually got installed — worth a great deal the next time somebody has to modify it.
• Inspection and comparison. Check a fabricated part against the model it came from.

Full specifications

Manufacturer's published figures. Precision and accuracy are measured in controlled conditions; real-world results vary with the surface, lighting, and operating environment.

Interested?

Tell us what you are trying to scan and roughly when you need it, and we will get back to you with availability, rates, and a training slot. If you are not sure the scanner is the right answer for your part, ask us that too — we would rather tell you up front than rent you something that will not do the job.

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