100% agree. While the rendered picture looks good, the wireframe tends to be very rough. For instance, if you go to the downloadable items on the Artec site, you’ll see a nice looking picture of a PCB with Ethernet port. Doesn’t look too bad in the rendered view, but when I opened it in SolidWorks, the .STL image looked very rough in comparison. Granted, it did capture the exposed pins decently, but the Ethernet port isn’t shown very well for internal features or the depth of the plug socket.
Oh! I’m with ya there, dude. That’s why I pointed out that the mesh has been decimated. Can’t remember how many polys it was originally but it was in the millions. Gerpho had to decimate it quite dramatically to get the Sketchfab load time down and response up. I know it’s kinda counter-intuitive that photogrammetry can offer results as good as multi thousand dollar scanners but the tech is developing really fast. You only need to look at 5 year old scanners to see how many are totally obsolete now.
All things considered, if I were you, and had a pocket with 20K in it to spend on scanning anything from 100mm to 2 Metres, it’d be an Einscan, a Scanify, a Structure Sensor and a photogrammetry set-up. Put them together with a good gaming PC running David, Meshlab, Netfabb, Acute3D, Smart3DCapture, Skanect or similar and you’re good to go. Of course you can get similar results with more costly set-ups but, mainly what you’re paying for is the convenience ( and trade-offs ) of having everything in one easy to use package. And, in 5 years time, you won’t have a single item that won’t run on the current version of Windows and can’t connect to a PC anyway because the interface is obsolete. Ya pays ya money. Ya takes ya choice.
Go ahead and take the HandyScan 700 out of the list. I got a response back from them basically saying their machine is not really intended for small parts. I’m waiting to hear back from Nikon about the MMDx or MMCx models.
