A test of digitising and 3D-printing monuments (123D Catch)

[CreativeTools]

Back in 2013 we made our first test of photogrammetry to try to capture buildings and large objects.

Our main office in Sweden is located in Slottsmöllan which is an old industrial complex transformed into offices.

There is a large obelisk at the very entrance of the main building. We therefore chose that and used Autodesk 123D Catch to 3D-scan the object.

At the time we 3D-printed a small scale model with a fabbster 3D-printer. Now, several years later, we made another print with the Z18 from MakerBot.

Our conclusion is that 123D Catch really works well and yields nice files, detailed enough to print scale models of buildings.

The 3D-model is freely available from: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:96006

[gabriela3d]

Wow, this is really great - @Alex3DHubs @Arnoldas check this out!

[Alex3DHubs]

Super cool! How many photos did you end up using for this capture? Have you seen Memento? It’s a new thing by Autodesk thats in Beta - its basically the same thing as 123D catch but there’s no size or quantity limit on the photos.

[3Dscaleworks]

Great, job

[CreativeTools]

We took roughly 30 - 40 images for this project.

Regarding Memento from Autodesk we also use it - and this software really looks promising!

[designerdojo]

Very Cool!

I tried using 123D Catch indoors to scan someone’s arm but it didn’t work. Is it better outdoors with even lighting?