Not much more to say really!
I’d looked at it before, and I was chatting with Mikolas from Prusa about Reality Capture last week, because he uses it a lot and discovered as of this month there’s a free tier for those turning over less than $1m per year! (that’s me!!!)
For those who don’t know - you use your phone or camera to take as many images as you need and the software will stitch a three d model which can then be exported in a format you choose.
It’s an extraordinarily powerful bit of kit - I am seriously thinking of a few projects (if only life wasn’t so short) and apart from the obvious simple scanning stuff there are a few tutorials on youtube on making terrain models using a basic drone.
My friend came over yesterday after he learned about 3D scanning. This might be fun to try with him. I did try it forever ago with the Prusa video, but sounds like I need to give it another try. Thanks for the heads up!
iPhone has a pretty good app for 3d scanning. Tried it out and took a 3d scan of the Wheel House at work lol. But haven’t tried it for any real parts yet.
Autodesk had one you could use with your phone. The images got uploaded to the cloud for processing. I think it died many years ago. I remember using it to convert one of my plastic models into a 3d model.
It’s a Creality CR-Scan Lizard. I got it through Kickstarter. It was a pretty wild ride because they got sued before delivery. Like everything else, there’s a bit of a learning curve. I’m not very good at tweaking the defects in the scanned model. They have newer, better scanners now.
I’m very much a beginner in Meshmixer but for the few things I’ve done it’s been fine. Here’s a scan from a few years ago using EM3D, ad iPhone app that works using the face recognition camera, and a very quick and tiny bust printed from it.
Photogrammetry is another story - the more photos and the the higher quality, the better the scan.
I really want to do more, but I really want to do more of a lot of things!
I found this pretty cool youtube video a couple years ago about doing it for free, but I never tested it because I never had a pc with a good enough graphics card.
3d scanning is on my to-do horizon. A while ago I ran into a scanning project similar to V1 though iirc it is Arduino based (google open scan). My idea is to scan fishing lure blanks and make 3d printed painting stencils for them.
I have been designing and printing (both FDM and resin) lures and lure molds for a few years. I ventured down this rabbit hole to extend my mold-making capabilities.
I have created molds several ways
1 Print a master object then create a silicon mold with the standard molding clay and mold box method.
2 Print a mold of a mold. then make the actual mold out of silicone (I find this the easiest and most reliable,
3 direct print of a mold, I have attempted this one once in FDM and I have high temp resin for the resin printer but have not printed a mold yet, flatness is an issue with printed molds before I started I fell down the CNC rabbit hole.
