There’s a number of options and I was a bit overwhelmed, is there a comprehensive write up, copypasta, or something of the like?
I have a Creaform MetraScan 750 at work. It’s pretty neat, can get 0.005" accuracy or less out of it. We also have a HandyScan with single line mode for very small parts.
Granted, at $150k system cost, it is slightly out of the layman’s budget range…
An OpenScan kit is something that’s been high on my list for hobby purchases for a while. It looks pretty functional from the YouTube videos I’ve seen and my printer is fully capable of making the frame.
Nothing comprehensive but the weapon holster company Trex Arms has a video review of the Einscan-SP that is like 5 years old.
Now I get that’s not super helpful but the interesting part is that they scanned a ton of handguns with combinations of optics, lights etc to make their holsters. They found out how tedious of a process it was so they made the files open source. So you can see the quality you’ll expect when you compare spec sheets to other stuff
I bought an old Xbox 360 Kinect and got surprising results out of it using Skanect
Just an option to throw on the table: https://openscan.eu/
What are you overwhelmed with? Which option to go with? What to expect as far as post processing? Accuracy? Something else?
What’s up with the abuse of the word open lately. I had a look at that project to see how they were doing the conversion, but I couldn’t find it. But I found this:
Short answer, yes! OpenScanCloud (OSC) is and will stay closed source…
Your data will be transferred through Dropbox and stored/processed on my local servers. I will use those image sets and resulting 3d models for further research, but none of your data will be published without your explicit consent!
I feel like I’d rather use Autodesk at that point. At least I know what I’m dealing with right out of the gate.
I would like to get one for our club but I can’t understand the wide variety of prices. $150 ? $500 ? $2000 ? $10000 ? $75000!! ? What’s the cheapest that is not a pain to use ?
Have access to a quarter million dollar scanner from about 15 years ago. It still beats the pants off anything cheaper than 8 grand these days.
You pay for software that can handle millions of points, hardware that can stream a lot of points to the pc. A wide dynamic range to scan, nice matte white, chrome or dark black objects. And raw precision to cast and track very fine details
