It all depends on what exactly you want. I have ran Faro arms and laser trackers. Really cool stuff. I am assuming that you do not need a laser tracker for what you are doing. They recently came out with a scanning head which you see there. You are looking at I think 60k to buy one.
If you just need points in space so you can reverse engineer and fabricate parts. Look at a gold or silver Faro arm. The head is smaller and they run about 10k on eBay. Easy to use. Make sure you get a 8 foot arm or better.
To rent an arm is around 2500 a week, one week minimum.
To rent equipment they will ship it any where in the US overnight. The only way they will do it. It is $1000 one way.
Where do you live by chance. If you do buy one, software will probably be extra.
If you have someone to come out to do it, look around 60/hr for drive time, then 100- 150 a hour plus the cost of the rental.
Hope this helps.
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