[hackerspaces] Next Engine Scanner

[Sector67 Team]

We have an Xbox Kinect that we use for human scale things and a Next Engine
scanner for small stuff.  The Next Engine requires a very good
understanding of how the scanner works and how to best use it to accomplish
what you want.  I learned how to use it at engineering school and through
friends.  The software will crash but on a computer with a fast processor
and a ton of RAM it does work.  It's definitely not a magic machine that
will make solid models for you with no effort, I usually instruct our
members that a first time using it will take 8+ hours, and subsequent uses
will halve that number as you get better as using their software and
orienting/marking/prepping models.

This was scanned in on our Next Engine on medium resolution, the loss of
detail isn't from the scanner, the injection molded part was that bad:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:158376


Chris

Chris Meyer
Director
Sector67

608-241-4605
http://sector67.org

2100 Winnebago St
Madison, WI  53704

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Joshua Pritt <ramgarden at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've used some of the XBox Kinect scanner software and that seems to work
> OK but haven't paid for the pro version that lets you scan at higher
> resolution.
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Joshua Pritt <ramgarden at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We're about to put together an ATLAS 3D scanner at Melbourne Makerspace
>> down here in Florida.
>> We'll see how it turns out.
>>
>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1545315380/atlas-3d-the-3d-scanner-you-print-and-build-yourse
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Andrew Roberts <
>> roberts.andrew.j at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Anybody using 3d scanner technology?  What are you using?
>>>
>>> We have:
>>> http://www.nextengine.com/
>>>
>>> And I can't say we're particularly impressed... any others?
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
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