About Polyga
Polyga is a 3D scanning company based in Vancouver, Canada, that develops both scanning hardware and software, with customers across six continents — in reverse engineering, metrology, cultural preservation, healthcare, entertainment, defense and aerospace. In 2024 the company launched PointKit Scan, a next-generation application built to replace FlexScan3D and make professional 3D capture easy for users of every skill level.
The Challenge
A scanning application lives or dies on its mesh-processing core. PointKit Scan needed to align thousands of frames in minutes, then clean, simplify, decimate and remesh the data reliably and fast. Building that geometry engine from scratch would have pulled Polyga’s team away from its real differentiators — capture quality and user experience — into months of low-level algorithm work.
The Solution
Polyga partnered with MeshInspector and built PointKit Scan on top of MeshLib, a high-performance 3D mesh-processing SDK running up to 10x faster than comparable toolkits. Alongside the library, the MeshInspector team provided hands-on technical support throughout development. MeshLib supplied production-ready algorithms for the exact operations behind PointKit Scan’s editing and optimization workflows:
Mesh Repair: cleaning up holes, self-intersections and degenerate faces in raw scan data without manual rework.
Simplification & Decimation: reducing dense scans to lightweight, workable meshes while preserving the detail that matters.
Remeshing: rebuilding topology into uniform, high-quality surfaces ready for downstream use.
Point Cloud Processing: fast alignment and triangulation of the thousands of frames captured during scanning.
The Results
By building on a proven geometry core instead of reinventing it, Polyga accelerated PointKit Scan’s development and shipped new features faster and with less effort. The product reached market months sooner than it would have otherwise — with responsive, expert support from the MeshInspector team removing roadblocks along the way.
In Their Words
“We partnered with MeshInspector to use MeshLib to develop our new PointKit 3D scanning software. Working with them has really allowed us to accelerate the development of the software and come out with new features faster and easier. The MeshInspector team has been wonderful — they’ve provided amazing technical support, and we wouldn’t have been able to come to market as quickly as we have without their help.”
— Thomas Tong, Founder & CEO, Polyga