The
CBA machine has the advantage of adding color and texture to the object
which coupled with the Z-corp printer could give really nice results.
The Zscanner 700 has the advantage of the manuverability.
I ended up using the Zscanner 700 in the Arch shop. Here are a bunch of objects I tried :
I ended up using the Zscanner 700 in the Arch shop. Here are a bunch of objects I tried :
The
machine works by defining the object relatively to the shiny dots.
Those can either be on the object or on a base around the object. They
are ideally 0.5" apart and the machine needs to see 4 of them at any
one point to record the object. The ring was very shiny and the machine
couldn't detect it, I probably should have painted it with a matte
surface. The cat was also a little shiny, very curvy and small which
made it hard to stick dots to it and hard to scan. Since this is a
valuable object of mine, i still wanted to replicate it so I tried
using the CT scan to get a closed surface of the object to 3d print but
I have not got the results of that yet.
I ended up scanning the PEZ dispenser which worked really well in 4 scans except for the bottom part of the pumpkin which was hard to scan because there were no dots on the ceiling!!! It also managed to capture the engraving on the side of PEZ which was pretty cool.
I also went to the CT session and I'll upload some of these pictures later. We scanned an iphone, a key and my cat.
3D printing
I was hoping to 3d print my scanned object but lack of time due to me trying to get a new computer made it impossible for me to sit down and fix the holes in the PEZ. I decided to go with something easy yet cool that would be hard to do otherwise. I CADed 3 concentric boolean spheres. I am not aware of any fabrication technique which would allow me to have all 3 inside each other without having to break the spheres.
At the time of class, the object is still printing so I'll update the webpage when that is done.
And here is the final product :
I ended up scanning the PEZ dispenser which worked really well in 4 scans except for the bottom part of the pumpkin which was hard to scan because there were no dots on the ceiling!!! It also managed to capture the engraving on the side of PEZ which was pretty cool.
I also went to the CT session and I'll upload some of these pictures later. We scanned an iphone, a key and my cat.
3D printing
I was hoping to 3d print my scanned object but lack of time due to me trying to get a new computer made it impossible for me to sit down and fix the holes in the PEZ. I decided to go with something easy yet cool that would be hard to do otherwise. I CADed 3 concentric boolean spheres. I am not aware of any fabrication technique which would allow me to have all 3 inside each other without having to break the spheres.
At the time of class, the object is still printing so I'll update the webpage when that is done.
And here is the final product :