Injection molded plastic parts, machined aluminum/steel…mostly RC car related items. You know…very serious stuff. 
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Interesting application. I’d like to talk with you a bit more about what you’re doing and see if I can either help you directly or point you in the right direction (if you aren’t in the US). I always enjoy being a resource for others in the community. Send me an email at hartigs@into3dllc.com and we can talk about what your needs are. Thanks, Steve Hartig
Agreed, the HandyScan 700 looks good but it is a little expensive. There are a lot of 3D Scanner companies that charge a lot extra to add the software to be able to use the machine. Considering the 700 comes bundled with the software, it makes the price a little easier to handle, depending on how much you plan to use it and what your budget is. One of the biggest selling points to me is the fact it is a handheld unit and doesn’t require a tripod and rotating base to do the scans.
Well, guys, that was an interesting read. About the only name that didn’t come up was the Einscan-S…
…but, as some people have already said, scanners tend to be optimised for specific tasks and scanning volumes. If you want to scan everything from the size of your fist to a whole body, it’s a big ask for any technology. The Einscan looks to be the best bang for the buck while covering the widest range of scan volumes. There’s bound to be a down-side and it’ll probably be resolution but at that price it’s definitely worth a look.
Another option worth considering would be photogrammetry as it’s size-agnostic. A couple of grand for great software ( Don’t take 123D Catch as a good example ), a gaming PC and a good DSLR. Take a look on Sketchfab to see what can be done…
Check this ( Decimated!! ) photogrammetry scan
If that’s peaked your interest, here’s a link to a discussion about the various software packages…
Oh! And Fuel3D Scanify!
Cheers,
AndyL
Pot8oSH3D
Thanks for that Andy…
I have looked into this before, and played with the technology (3D product images for a website)
I think photogrammetry makes 3D look amazing and I think for web site product images its probably going to be the future, but have you ever looked at the 3D file without the lovely texture image? I don’t know if its the software I used, but raw 3D image is quite rough & basic in comparison to how good it looks when rendered out…
For example with that beautiful jet engine, which is truly amazing. If you select the wire frame or metcap view you can see the 3D file is less impressive…
You could also try the new Microsoft app Mobile Fusion. Looks promising.
Take a look at http://www.faro.com 14 we have some differen kind of scanning products.
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.
Just my ten cents
Cheers!
AndyL
Pot8oSH3D
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.
Yes, that machine offers a lot of nice features and looks to capture items pretty well…but apparently just not small items. I was very disappointed when I got the e-mail saying that. I’m going to look into the Artec more and see if the scanned items for download are run at the max resolution. I’ll let you know if I hear anything back.
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Did you consider Rangevision (rangevision.com 19) or the likes? Those types of scanners (with interchangeable lenses) are meant for scanning objects of different sizes…all the other scanners are not…most are built for one size of object only. Like the Spider can only scan objects up to 20cm by 20cm and if the object is better than that, you accumulate too much data and your computer crashes.