Reverse Engineering (RE), in particular Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM), is increasingly used in construction, maintenance and refurbishment of vessels. Over the last few years, it can observe increasing interest in the small size scanning instruments which operational characteristics will be similar to those station ones. In this way, hand-held scanning devices based on laser were developed. In this article, authors would like to present what role non-contact 3D laser scanners in quality control, project design and creation of new technical documentation in the form of CAD drawings. Authors would also like to propose a solution that would simplify the whole process of scanning and spared time and money. The solution is to move the entire infrastructure and software in the cloud computing and connecting to it using a thin client which then would be connected to the scanning device.
