The laser scanning application for power systems equipment engineering reverse

In our days, “Electric Power System Kit” is the only producer of power and secondary equipment scale models. The production laboratory is established on the basis of ≪Automated Power Systems≫ department, Ural Power Engineering Institute, UrFU. In the laboratory, the following processes are organized: designing, 3D printing of models and 3D laser scanning of power equipment installed at substations. Laser scanning of power facilities allows to achieve the priority goal, namely to obtain three-dimensional primary digital CAD-models and drawings of high accuracy, which are necessary in order to meet the challenges of designing, construction, quality control, diagnostics, and other engineering tasks. Applied to electric power system kit, laser scanning is used to improve the quality of basic data needed for the creation of 3D drawings of equipment and creation of printed models on the basis of CAD-scale models. At the present moment, the problem set is to accomplish the reverse engineering of 110/20 kV step-down transformer, using up-to-date methods of 3D laser scanning. On the basis of the data obtained, the transformer CAD-model of high accuracy is crested in accordance with the initial dimensions.