3D point cloud acquisition and processing libraries developer Aqsense developed a flexible 3D imaging library that has delivered excellent results in industrial applications. The technical approach is that of capturing 3D Point Clouds (COPs) from laser triangulation or any other digitizing source delivering organized COPs. The following processing with the tools contained in SAL3D (The 3D Shape Analysis Library) merges the data from multi-camera layouts to avoid occlusions, obtains true metric measurements in every of the three axis XYZ, and compares whole data sets corresponding with a ‘golden model‘ with the scanned data. The alignment is based on mathematical algorithms, so no fixtures are needed for positioning the scanned part, and comparisons can be performed in fractions of a second.