I. Turn on Minolta

1. •  Remove lens cover and laser cover1 
   
   

2. •  Place black poster behind platform2
   
   

3. •  Flip switch on minolta to turn on
   
   

4. •  Wait some time to initialize
   
   

5. •  when Prompted "Please open Laser Barrier" Hit any key3  
   
   

6. •  Open GeoMagic software
   
   

7. •  Navigate to Plugins → Konica Minolta 901 Plugin v9.0
   
   

8. •  when Prompted  "Do you want to calibrate the turntable axis"
      Select No
   
   

9. •  Check minolta is displaying “Remote”4
   

    1 medium lens is best

    2 minolta does not capture black very well 

    3 already did with first step

    4 if not, reboot computer

lens

laser

black

poster

Remote

II. Calibrate Minolta

1. •  Click “Show Live Image Window” in the left side Scan panel
   
   

2. •  Click “Enable Streaming Video” to see if capturing
   
   

3. •  Place chart on the platform (nicely centered)
   
   

4. •  Uncheck “Enable Streaming Video”
   
   

5. •  Click “Update Color Image”
   
   

6. •  Wait, then Click “Update Range and Color Image”
   
   

7. •  Check image to see the chart is colored within spectrum.
   
   

8. •  Click Calibrate Axis under Turntable panel
   

1. •  when Prompted "Please set the chart on the turntable" Click ok
   
   

2. •  Check to see a TurnTable Axis in your 3d environment
   

III. Test Scan of Piece

1. •  Remove chart and Place piece on the platform
   
   

2. •  Back in the “Show Live Image Window”, Click Enable Streaming Video
   
   

3. •  Click “Update Color Image” and Click “Update Range and Color Image”
   
   

4. •  Check image colored within spectrum, Aim for middle depth to be yellow
   

5. •  If images look like example 1 or example 2, then autofocus didn’t do a
       good job, so now need to manually set the focus
   

6. • Uncheck autofocus, change the “Distance” up or down incrementally
      (by 10’s) then Click “Update Range and Color Image”
   

7. •  Repeat until piece is colored nicely within spectrum like example 3
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Example 1 (Bad)                                Example 2 (Better but Bad)                         Example 3 (Good)
   
   

8. •  Click “Scan” button for a test scan
   
   

9. •  Check that scanned image looks good, okay if there is outer noise

IV. 360 Scan of Piece

1. •  Under the Turntable panel
   

2. •  Current position should be 0.0
   

3. •  Set “Rotation Step” to 45 degrees
   

4. •  Set MultiShot for “Scan Mode”
   

1. •  Click Next, the platform will rotate 45 degrees and take another scan
   
   

2. •  Repeat until “Current Position” does a full 360
   
   

3. •  once completed, Click Ok button at the very bottom
   
   

4. •  the left panel should display a list of scans and a solid piece (w/ noise + holes) 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

1. • Navigate to File → Save As a “Wrap File .wrp”

V. Cleaning Scan

1. •  Click and Drag to highlight a noisy region then hit delete key
   
   

2. •  Repeat until no visible noise
   

3. •  make sure to rotate around using middle button of mouse
   

4. •  to deselect a highlighted area, right click and select clear all
   
   

5. •  Select all scans on left panel by holding down shift
   
   

6. •  Navigate to Points → Reduce Noise, Click Apply and Ok
   
   

7. •  Select all scans, Navigate to Points → Merge, Click ok
   
   

8. •  Select the merged file at the bottom of scan list
   
   

9. •  Navigate to Polygon →  Clean
   
   

10. •  If desired, you can reduce the noise again on the merged and cleaned file
    

                              before  cleaning                               after cleaning

1. •  SAVE
   

VI. Filling in Holes

From the front view, the piece can seem deceivingly whole,
but once you rotate, you will notice holes everywhere.

1. •  Navigate  to Polygon → Fill Holes
   
   

2. • Under Fill Method, select the second “Partial Fills” option
   
   (Note: the first all “Fill” option is a little dangerous in that if there are complex and large areas it can stall the computer forever or make some areas really flat and not nicely curve)
   
   

3. •  Define the desired boundary by clicking on the outline your first, second, and third points for the boundary  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
                      before fill hole                          after fill hole
   
   

4. •  Click Ok at the bottom to save this filled hole
   
   

5. •  Repeat filling holes until all are sealed
   
   

6. •  Under “View Point,” Step Through Holes can auto direct
   you to holes
   

VII. Filling in Holes - Advanced (Smooth Boundaries)

VIII. Filling in Holes - Advanced (Close w/ Planes)

1. •  Navigate to Boundaries → Relax
   
   

2. •  Select boundary to relax
   
   

3. •  Increase (or decrease) the iteration to make the white boundary become smoother
   
   

4. •  Click execute and Click ok
   

                                before                                                      after

1. •  Navigate to Polygons → Section by Plane
   
   

2. •  Change “System Plane” to “Line”
   
   

3. •  Select the line tool
   
   

4. •  Select and Drag a straight line over desired region
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

5. •  Rotate the piece and Move the “Position” until at a good intersection
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

6. •  Click Intersect plane, Click Delete section, Click Close intersection, Click Ok
   

IX. Saving out .STL

1. •  Right click on the Merge file
   
   

2. •  Click save
   (Note: if it complains about the model not being water tight then you need to re-look at holes)
   
   

3. •  Save as type STL binary File .stl
   

1. •  To reduce file size, Navigate to Polygon-→ Decimate
   
   

2. •  Set "Reduce to Percentage" to 50%
   
   

3. •  Click apply if no important features are lost

X. De-waxing

After your piece is printed out, it will need to be de-waxed by being heated in a small oven

1. •  Set the oven’s mode to Bake
   
   

2. •  Set the temperature to 150
   
   

3. •  Hit Start
   
   

4. •  Wait until all the wax melts off (~40minutes)