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Take a look at http://www.faro.com we have some differen kind of scanning products.

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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.

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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a single item that won’t run on the current version of Windows and can’t connect to a PC anyway because the interface is obsolete.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 :slight_smile:

Cheers!

AndyL

Pot8oSH3D

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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.

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Have any files of any small items scanned that haven’t gotten decimated? I’d like to see the original polygon count for a .STL file if possible.

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Bummer quite liked that… thanks for letting me know…

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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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Any more luck finding any leads?

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Still looking, got an email back form SMARTTECH LTD with a demo video and was super unimpressed.

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While I think the technology works with SMARTTECH as far as accuracy and detail, but my biggest issue is convenience with the equipment use. It’s a real shame the HandyScan 700 isn’t meant for smaller parts because that kind of ease-of-use. I’ll keep looking and post anything that looks promising.

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I’m still looking into things. I got a really nice looking scan from the Artec Space Spider that was done in only around 50 seconds that shows really good detail on a part that’s not even 12" long. I’m trying to get something similar from the HandyScan 700 people also so I can compare things a little bit.

For a relatively “cheap” scanner, this one looks fairly decent: http://www.nextengine.com/

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Did you consider Rangevision (rangevision.com) 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.