Laser scanning and positioning - scan sites and position objects with pinpoint accuracy

Why rely on inaccurate plans, crude surveying techniques and time-consuming site visits, when Helium3 can offer you a quicker and far more accurate alternative?

We compliment the accuracy of our computer models by using advanced 3D scanning techniques to capture the dimensional data of any existing site condition to within +/-12mm. We then rapidly convert this information in a usable surface giving you the best possible start! Using specialist surveying equipment, we can also physically position any object in 3D space to within +/-5mm.

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Awe-inspiring animations to capture the imagination

Whether you are pitching for new business, encouraging investment, or illustrating a technical proposal, Helium3 can produce convincing and awe-inspiring walkthroughs, flypasts and technical illustrations to help you succeed. We can supply your animation as an AVI or QuickTime file, send it to you on DVD, CD-ROM, VHS or via the web and can enhance your presentation through a voiceover or inspiring soundtrack.

Need convincing? View our reduced quality web show reel or phone us for a broadcast quality version on CD.

Scale models - one of the most effective sales and verification tools available

Whether as a tangible and engaging sales tool or to verify a complex design before you reach site, a scale model can be the most effective means available. Scale models clearly communicate your ideas to your client, capture their imagination, add credibility to your idea and can often provide convincing proof that an idea will work.

Contact Helium3 today to discuss how we can convert your design information and provide you with a unique model in under 48hrs, to put you one step ahead of your competition.

Coordination modelling - reducing the cost of out-of-sync design data by highlighting it early

Our expertise in file formatting and conversion enables us to convert and position CAD information from disjointed groups into a common data environment.

This approach enhances co-ordination and communication between sub-contractors and can highlight anomalies and out-of-sync data at all points during the design stage.

File conversion and surfacing - modelling complex surfaces and bringing competing softwares together

Helium3 are specialists in surface modelling to create complex computer surfaces from architectural sketches or 2D drawings. We can also 'auto-generate' smooth and simplified NURB surfaces from 3D scans, point clouds or faceted data.

Where information is held within competing softwares, we can import, convert and position almost all competing file formats into a single computer model to highlight potential clashes between different data sets.

Structural analysis - parametric models and FEA working together to optimise designs more rapidly

Ensure that expensive failures are avoided at the design stage by predicting stress, strain and deformation of structures before reaching site. Our parametric models can be updated with design recommendations far more rapidly than within traditional softwares, resulting in substantial cost and time savings.

Downstream machining - solutions that offer huge time and cost savings

Component information, generated within our computer models is interference checked and issued as a set of conventional drawings or as 3D CAD files.

Since we have 3D model geometry, why not exploit it? We are establishing a range of steel, wood, glass and fascade contractors who can. This reduces the need to produce, decipher and misinterpret conventional drawings, and overcomes the limits of 3D documentation to communicate complex organic shapes.

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