There’s a number of options and I was a bit overwhelmed, is there a comprehensive write up, copypasta, or something of the like?
I have a Creaform MetraScan 750 at work. It’s pretty neat, can get 0.005" accuracy or less out of it. We also have a HandyScan with single line mode for very small parts.
Granted, at $150k system cost, it is slightly out of the layman’s budget range…
An OpenScan kit is something that’s been high on my list for hobby purchases for a while. It looks pretty functional from the YouTube videos I’ve seen and my printer is fully capable of making the frame.
I bought an old Xbox 360 Kinect and got surprising results out of it using Skanect
Nothing comprehensive but the weapon holster company Trex Arms has a video review of the Einscan-SP that is like 5 years old.
Now I get that’s not super helpful but the interesting part is that they scanned a ton of handguns with combinations of optics, lights etc to make their holsters. They found out how tedious of a process it was so they made the files open source. So you can see the quality you’ll expect when you compare spec sheets to other stuff
Just an option to throw on the table: https://openscan.eu/
What are you overwhelmed with? Which option to go with? What to expect as far as post processing? Accuracy? Something else?
What’s up with the abuse of the word open lately. I had a look at that project to see how they were doing the conversion, but I couldn’t find it. But I found this:
Short answer, yes! OpenScanCloud (OSC) is and will stay closed source…
Your data will be transferred through Dropbox and stored/processed on my local servers. I will use those image sets and resulting 3d models for further research, but none of your data will be published without your explicit consent!
I feel like I’d rather use Autodesk at that point. At least I know what I’m dealing with right out of the gate.
Some of the newer iPhones feature a LIDAR scanner and there are store apps that can use it to scan too
LIDAR sucks, accuracy wise. If you want accuracy, and hate yourself, then you need an iPhone XR/XS because that was the generation with the most accurate FaceID (for whatever reason). Or go photogrammetry, the LIDAR can help but isn’t the main thing there… this is both free and great. With a Mac you can get the data processed faster, or it can be done (paid) via cloud, or with less accuracy and a bit of patience, on device. It’s not going to be a professional solution, but depending on the task it works and chances are the hardware is already there :)
