EinScan HX2
Handheld Industrial 3D Scanner — Dark, Reflective, and Difficult Surfaces Without Spray
Limited availability: Shining 3D has marked the EinScan HX2 as discontinued; the active replacement in the line is the EinScan Rigil. Rev1 sells HX2 while supply lasts. The HX2 pairs 13 crossed blue-laser lines with a blue-LED rapid mode in a 745 g handheld — capture a black-anodized bracket, a polished casting, or a full automotive body panel at up to 1.6 M pts/s and 0.04 mm accuracy with no spray prep on most surfaces. Built-in color camera with BlueStar Mapping captures photoreal texture in a single pass. Hands the mesh straight off to Geomagic Design X, EXModel, SHINING3D Inspect, or PolyWorks for reverse engineering and first-article inspection workflows. Full specifications →
HX2 is discontinued by Shining 3D — Rev1 sells while supply lasts and confirms current stock before any commitment. No self-serve checkout on this product. Authorized EinScan reseller and factory-trained EinScan support partner in the USA. Consider the active EinScan Rigil if HX2 inventory has cleared.
An Authorized EinScan Reseller and Factory-Trained Support Partner.
Rev1 Technologies is an Authorized EinScan Reseller and a factory-trained EinScan support partner. Application review, software-stack guidance, on-site or remote calibration assistance, and engineering consultation are delivered from Auburn Hills, Michigan — not routed through grey-market importers.
Dark and reflective surfaces without spray. 745 g handheld. 13 crossed blue-laser lines + LED rapid mode.
The EinScan HX2 is a handheld industrial 3D scanner built around a dual-light optical engine: 13 crossed blue-laser lines for fine-detail capture on dark, anodized, polished-metal, and reflective surfaces, plus a blue-LED rapid mode for high-speed markerless capture of geometrically-rich parts. Up to 1,600,000 points/s in laser mode at 120 FPS, with 0.04 mm single-point and 0.04 + 0.06 mm/m volumetric accuracy. The differentiator: the 13 crossed blue-laser lines resolve geometry on parts that conventional structured-light scanners struggle on — black anodized brackets, polished castings, machined aluminum — without spray prep. Built-in color camera with BlueStar Mapping captures photoreal texture in a single pass. Designed for industrial reverse engineering, first-article inspection, and reverse-engineering on the shop floor. Discontinued by Shining 3D; the active replacement is the EinScan Rigil. Rev1 stocks HX2 while supplies last.
13 crossed blue lasers for the hard surfaces. LED rapid mode for the easy ones. Switch without tools.
13 crossed blue-laser lines resolve fine geometry on the surfaces that structured-light scanners typically lose — black anodized brackets, polished castings, machined aluminum, dark composites. Minimum point distance 0.05 mm, single-point accuracy 0.04 mm, up to 1.6 M pts/s at 120 FPS. This is the core HX2 differentiator: capture the hard parts without spray prep, without dot stickers, without a wait for AESUB to dry.
Blue-LED Rapid mode trades the laser's dark-surface advantage for raw capture speed on parts where geometry already provides plenty of features — complex castings, dies, weldments, ducting. Markerless capture, full-color texture in a single pass (via BlueStar Mapping), 420 × 440 mm max FOV. Switch modes mid-scan; the scanner blends both data streams into a single mesh.
Send Rev1 a few sample parts — reflectivity, color, finish, geometry — and we will validate whether the HX2's 13 crossed blue-laser lines actually solve your spray-prep problem before you quote. If HX2 inventory has cleared, we will steer you to the active EinScan Rigil sibling.
Vendor-published professional accuracy with repeatable real-world performance — without paying metrology-tier pricing.
The HX2 sits in the EinScan professional tier with vendor-published 0.04 mm single-point and 0.04 + 0.06 mm/m volumetric accuracy. For an industrial RE / first-article inspection workflow, the binding question is usually not the headline accuracy — it is whether the scanner holds that accuracy on the materials and finishes the shop floor actually deals with: dark anodized brackets, polished castings, machined aluminum, dark composites. The HX2 was designed for exactly that case. Where the metrology tier (FreeScan Combo Series) adds VDI/VDE 2634 + ISO 10360 + ISO/IEC 17025 lab certification for audit-grade deliverables, the HX2 delivers the optical-engine quality at a shop-floor price point.
No dots. No spray. No prep time stacking up on the shop floor.
The setup time on a structured-light scanner is often longer than the capture time itself — reference dots, marker stickers, AESUB spray, masking the texture, waiting for the spray to dry. The HX2's 13 crossed blue-laser lines were designed to skip that step. For the dark, anodized, polished-metal, and reflective surfaces that traditionally force spray prep, the laser tracks geometry directly — markerless capture on the part as it sits. For geometrically-rich parts where surface reflectivity is not the binding constraint, the LED Rapid mode covers area fast. The combination keeps a shop-floor operator productive on the parts most likely to slow down a structured-light scanner.
Proven on automotive body panels, aerospace brackets, dies, and heavy castings — before discontinuation by Shining 3D.
If your team is already trained on EXScan HX, the HX2 inventory window is the right time to add a second scanner without retraining the operator. If you are starting fresh, the active Rigil is the forward-looking choice with the longer support runway. Rev1 walks through the comparison during pre-sale review so the order matches the actual deployment horizon, not just the spec sheet.
745 g single-operator handheld. Dual-light optical engine. Built for the shop floor, not the bench.
A 745 g ergonomic handheld balanced for shop-floor use. The dual-light optical engine (13 crossed blue lasers + blue-LED rapid) handles dark/reflective and geometrically-rich parts from one scanner. Built-in color camera with BlueStar Mapping captures photoreal texture in a single pass. EXScan HX runs capture and alignment; output flows direct to Geomagic Design X, EXModel, SHINING3D Inspect, and PolyWorks for reverse engineering and first-article inspection. Operating system support: Windows 10/11.
USB-C tethered industrial workflow with EXScan HX.
The HX2 is a tethered industrial scanner — it pairs with a Windows 10/11 workstation running EXScan HX over a USB-C connection for capture, alignment, and on-PC mesh reconstruction. Bandwidth is sized for the dual-light optical engine at 1.6 M pts/s and 120 FPS. For untethered field workflows, see the wireless EinScan Libre sibling; for the active EinScan replacement in this tier, see the Rigil.
Dark / reflective industrial RE. First-article inspection. Mold and die work. Marine impellers and propellers.
The HX2 is built for the industrial reverse-engineering and first-article-inspection workflow where surface reflectivity has been the binding constraint — black anodized brackets, polished castings, machined aluminum, dark composites. Where the workflow is reverse-engineering legacy parts to CAD, validating dies and molds for wear or revision, scanning automotive body panels and sheet-metal stampings, capturing marine propellers and impellers, or running first-article dimensional comparison on machined components, the dual-light optical engine and 0.04 mm accuracy class fit. Note: for general-purpose engineering or current-generation workflows, the active EinScan Rigil replaces the HX2 with a longer support runway.
Capture, inspect, reverse-engineer, and report — in one connected workflow.
The HX2 ships with EXScan HX for capture and on-scanner processing, and connects natively to SHINING3D Inspect for GD&T inspection, EXModel for scan-to-CAD reverse engineering, and the broader industry stack — Geomagic Design X, Geomagic Control X, and PolyWorks Inspector. The data path stays inside the scanner's native ecosystem when that's the goal, and exports cleanly into third-party tools when it isn't. Rev1 confirms software-fit and seat-licensing during application review before purchase.
HX2 vs. industry-standard punch-up & intra-brand peers.
We benchmark the HX2 against the industrial RE peers buyers actually shortlist: the search-visible Creaform alternative Peel 3D 3.CAD-PRO, the structured-light reference Artec Eva, and the EinScan active successor Rigil. The HX2's position in the lineup is narrow but specific: handheld industrial reverse-engineering with the dual-light optical engine that handles dark and reflective surfaces without spray prep, at a $9,999 list price — while inventory lasts before transitioning to the Rigil.
Send Rev1 your target part, accuracy budget, and software stack and we'll tell you which scanner actually fits the application — including when a different scanner is the better answer.
EinScan HX2 — full specifications.
Documentation, software, and Rev1 support resources.
Get the right scanner for your workflow — before you commit.
Most 3D scanner returns happen because the buyer matched a price to a spec sheet instead of a workflow to a geometry. For the HX2 specifically, the buying decision has an extra wrinkle: the product is discontinued by Shining 3D, so Rev1 confirms current US stock and walks through whether the active Rigil is the better forward-looking pick before any commitment.
First call: confirm current HX2 inventory on Rev1's side, and walk through whether the active EinScan Rigil ($4,999, current line, longer support runway) is the better fit. If your team is already on EXScan HX, HX2 is a no-retraining add. If you are starting fresh, Rigil is the answer.
Send Rev1 your representative parts (dark anodized, polished metal, machined aluminum, etc.) and your downstream RE / inspection software (Geomagic Design X, EXModel, SHINING3D Inspect, PolyWorks). We confirm the dual-light optical engine actually solves your spray-prep problem before quote — not after.
Rev1 verifies calibration on arrival, sets up scan profiles for your industrial part list, walks operators through EXScan HX, and runs a first-scan session on a representative workpiece — dark anodized bracket, polished casting, or whatever the spray-prep pain has been — so the scanner produces usable output on day one.
No commitment required. A pre-sale consultation is complimentary for any Rev1 scanner inquiry — talk through your application before you buy.
EinScan HX2 questions buyers ask before quoting.
Use the FAQ as the starting point. Rev1 can confirm accuracy class, software stack, accessory needs, and delivery considerations before the HX2 is ordered.
Check current HX2 availability — or talk to Rev1 about the active Rigil first.
The HX2 is discontinued by Shining 3D; Rev1 sells while supply lasts. Confirm current stock and weigh against the active EinScan Rigil ($4,999) before commitment. Authorized EinScan reseller and factory-trained EinScan support partner in the USA.