Patent ID: 7968858

Claim:
A system for scanning and measuring points of an object, the system comprising a computer and a measuring machine, the computer comprising an image acquiring card, the measuring machine being installed with a charged coupled device, the charged coupled device working with a lens module for capturing an image of the object, the computer acquiring the image of the object from the charged coupled device by the image acquiring card, the measuring machine comprising a laser, and the computer further comprising a selected module and a measuring module, wherein: the selecting module is configured for a user to select a measuring start point and a measuring end point from the image of the object; the laser is configured for scanning the object from the measuring start point to the measuring end point with a predetermined distance, according to X-axis coordinate values and Y-axis coordinate values of the measuring start point and the measuring end point to obtain scanned measuring points, and for obtaining a vertical distance between each of the scanned measuring points and the laser; and the measuring module is configured for computing measuring results, namely computing a Z-axis coordinate value of each of the scanned measuring points according to the corresponding vertical distance.