SCANNING OF OBJECTS

Apparatuses and methods for scanning a flow of parts or products of many various types and formats. The apparatus comprises a plurality of light sources and a plurality of detectors located around a scanning volume to observe build parts or products in the scanning volume from different observation angles, the light sources each to direct light of separate wavelengths over a respective field of view. Each detector has at least one filter to isolate at the detector light from one of the light sources from light from the other of the light sources. The apparatus also includes a controller to operate a plurality of the light sources, detectors and filters to form measurement groups to scan the observable surface of objects in the scanning volume simultaneously from different observation angles, to obtain scanning data for generating a 3D model. Once a given part or product is in position in the field of scan the apparatus may perform its scanning without any kinematic movement involved neither for the part nor from any of the system components thus avoiding the movement of functional part sub-components that may occur in between various scans.