Vol.15, No.1, 2015, pp.45–50
UDC  620.179.16:725.4 725.4.025

In heritage protection there are always demands for quick and non-invasive techniques of documentation which can provide a wide spectre of information. In practice often used are insufficiently precise techniques that do not give adequate amount of data. In the last decade, digital documentation through use of a 3D laser scanner has become very developed. The aim of the paper is the presentation of the rapid survey of industrial heritage objects at the Old ironworks complex in Smederevo, but also a description of pre-processing and editing of 3D scans as a basis for further static analyses of structural systems. Here described are the basic principles of laser scanner operation as a workflow of performed operations. Special focus is aimed at advantages of this method, but also on its limitations.

Keywords: 3D laser scanning, 3D scan processing, industrial heritage, static analyses