Does anyone use the 3D scanner with 3D printer?

To chat about anything else.
Post Reply
huminlian
I have made <0 posts
I have made <0 posts
Posts: 4
Joined: Thu Nov 25, 2021 6:39 am
2
Full Name: 胡明亮
Company Details: Revopoint international Limit
Company Position Title: 3D scanner engineer
Country: Hong Kong
Linkedin Profile: Yes
Location: Hong Kong
Contact:

Does anyone use the 3D scanner with 3D printer?

Post by huminlian »

My friend is a 3D printer workshop owner, he often printed characters to sell. He wants to know if he buys a 3D printer scanner, do it the model scanned by 3D scanner can be used for 3D printing?
User avatar
Scott.Warren
V.I.P Member
V.I.P Member
Posts: 364
Joined: Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:14 pm
6
Full Name: Scott Warren
Company Details: WSP Canada
Company Position Title: Project Manager - Geomatics Engineer
Country: Canada
Linkedin Profile: Yes
Location: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Has thanked: 43 times
Been thanked: 111 times
Contact:

Re: Does anyone use the 3D scanner with 3D printer?

Post by Scott.Warren »

You totally can.

Some things to think about:
You would need to turn the point cloud into a water tight mesh once you've scanned your object
Getting data in the hard places, how to capture all sides and deal with shadows and voids
large things often dont scale well when you shrink things down, like a large building scaled to paperweight size (loss of fine detail)
Photogrammetry might be a cheaper, faster method for single small/medium sized objects
the scanner in your like seems to be fine for the purpose (smaller objects)

Thingiverse.com, cults3d.com, myminifactory.com and yeggi.com can be a great resources. plenty of free software to mesh the cloud (Meshlab), and lots of sales people to sell you software as well.
User avatar
Scott.Warren
V.I.P Member
V.I.P Member
Posts: 364
Joined: Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:14 pm
6
Full Name: Scott Warren
Company Details: WSP Canada
Company Position Title: Project Manager - Geomatics Engineer
Country: Canada
Linkedin Profile: Yes
Location: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Has thanked: 43 times
Been thanked: 111 times
Contact:

Re: Does anyone use the 3D scanner with 3D printer?

Post by Scott.Warren »

A T-Rex skull hot off the build plate. Someone else scanned it and I printed on one of my Printers
20200611_163507.jpg
need to tune my extrusion rate :?
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Dirkie2710
I have made 60-70 posts
I have made 60-70 posts
Posts: 61
Joined: Sun Jan 14, 2018 2:06 pm
6
Full Name: Dirkie Uys
Company Details: Landpartners
Company Position Title: Surveyor
Country: Australia
Skype Name: duaus
Linkedin Profile: No
Has thanked: 3 times
Been thanked: 10 times

Re: Does anyone use the 3D scanner with 3D printer?

Post by Dirkie2710 »

Funny to find this today.

I'm in the final steps of building a photogrammetry rig to do the same hging (hobby not pro level printing). Just for things around the house.

I've built a setup that should accommodate approximately a 50cm x 50cm x 50cm object. Object is on a motorized spin table. Hardware interface lets you define the number of images per 360 rotation. Eg. you pick 10 steps / 360° : Table will rotate 36° and camera is auto-triggered, then table rotates again 36° and repeats until done. Manual process to move camera up or down on tripod but then just set interface off again and it'll spin object and take photos.

Table has fixed elements for scaling purposes. I'll write a EXIFTools script to add pre-lim XYZ roll pitch yaw values to the images (easy to determine and add in) and then just run it through chosen photogrammetry software : ContextCapture, RealityCapture, Pix4D, Agisoft etc etc.
User avatar
landmeterbeuckx
V.I.P Member
V.I.P Member
Posts: 1615
Joined: Tue May 01, 2012 5:19 pm
11
Full Name: Lieven Beuckx
Company Details: Studiebureau Beuckx
Company Position Title: Owner
Country: Belgium
Linkedin Profile: Yes
Has thanked: 183 times
Been thanked: 548 times

Re: Does anyone use the 3D scanner with 3D printer?

Post by landmeterbeuckx »

Scott.Warren wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 5:21 pm A T-Rex skull hot off the build plate. Someone else scanned it and I printed on one of my Printers

20200611_163507.jpg

need to tune my extrusion rate :?
Nice. What printer do you use Scott? Would like to experiment a bit with this. Not only scanning though.
LSBbvba
Surveying services - 3D Laserscanning
Tel : +32477753126
www.lsbbvba.be
[email protected]
User avatar
Scott.Warren
V.I.P Member
V.I.P Member
Posts: 364
Joined: Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:14 pm
6
Full Name: Scott Warren
Company Details: WSP Canada
Company Position Title: Project Manager - Geomatics Engineer
Country: Canada
Linkedin Profile: Yes
Location: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Has thanked: 43 times
Been thanked: 111 times
Contact:

Re: Does anyone use the 3D scanner with 3D printer?

Post by Scott.Warren »

First FDM Printer was a Monoprice Mini Delta (($80 open box))
20200528_090101.jpg
20200527_182746.jpg
20200519_202251.jpg
20200518_091925.jpg
20190207_213651.jpg
great little guy to learn on, but too small!
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Scott
V.I.P Member
V.I.P Member
Posts: 1037
Joined: Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:39 pm
13
Full Name: Scott Page
Company Details: Scott Page Design- Architectural service
Company Position Title: Owner
Country: USA
Linkedin Profile: No
Location: Berkeley, CA USA
Has thanked: 205 times
Been thanked: 78 times
Contact:

Re: Does anyone use the 3D scanner with 3D printer?

Post by Scott »

Large items can also be meshed from terrestrial scanner files.This sculpture was ~25' (~7.62 m.) tall. With amazing help from Autodesk, the FARO files were meshed, and made 3D print ready. This project was done in 2016. ReMake was the meshing software employed:

https://www.autodesk.com/products/remake/overview
"As of September 7, 2017, ReMake software has been replaced with ReCap Photo, which is available through a subscription to ReCap Photo
Consider moving to ReCap Pro (includes ReCap Photo)
ReCap Photo is our new desktop and cloud solution for UAV and drone processes. ReCap Photo is included with a subscription to ReCap Pro, which is available on a monthly, 1-year, and 3-year plan."


RecapPro seems to be the ticket in 2022.

(1) Composite views from colorized scan images (FARO Scene)
(2) 3D printed model
(3) Screenshot of sculpture after registration (FARO Scene)
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
joee09
I have made <0 posts
I have made <0 posts
Posts: 5
Joined: Wed Jul 13, 2022 12:10 pm
1
Full Name: jasmines
Company Details: houseandbeyond
Company Position Title: IT manager
Country: UK
Has thanked: 2 times

Re: Does anyone use the 3D scanner with 3D printer?

Post by joee09 »

Again, what I'm trying to share is how difficult the challenge is of 3D scanning for 3D printing.
You said you were new to 3D printing. Given that it's taken me all this time to master and know what I know about 3D printing, the thousands of dollars I've spent in the industry, the countless nights and hours, and here you are starting out.
I'm not saying these to put you down in any way, I'm saying that this skill- 3D printing is a massive thing to master.

I'm asking about just understanding the machine, upgrading the machine, understanding volume calibration, how the extruder works, what various materials need.

All this to say you assume you are starting with a given printable STL file, and it's now up to you and your skills to orient the object in the slicer, get the right settings to slice it, getting the machine prepared before the print, calibrated, upgraded, and so forth, and then starting the print, monitoring it the entire time, and ending up with a result. Can you read and understand gcode? Can you write your own custom gcode? Do you really understand how the extruder works, the details of a good hotend design VS a bad hotend design? Do you know the firmware and electronics? Do you really know how to master and tune he mechanics of the 3D printer? Can you design and build a better 3D printer?

Then designing for 3D printing requires understanding 3D printing and limitations and all that in getting CAD to export an object and then import that object and have a slicer slice it the way you know it needs to be printed and then setting up the printer and printing it.

But the next hurdle down the road- scanning an object, getting a good 3D point cloud with minimal noise, then still cleaning that up, correcting the mesh, filling the holes, making and basically morphing into a printable 3D object- well you have to have mastered the above previous skills here

Again, a huge piece of this is all the software required, and sure you can play around on trial versions, but at some point it cost $$
Are you then prepared to take that leap?
mic07
I have made <0 posts
I have made <0 posts
Posts: 2
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2022 12:47 pm
1
Full Name: helena
Company Details: hvaclifehack
Company Position Title: manager
Country: UK
Linkedin Profile: No

Re: Does anyone use the 3D scanner with 3D printer?

Post by mic07 »

thankyou so very much joee for such detailed information.
Post Reply

Return to “General Chat”