Week
04
About
We learned to use 3D Scaning and 3D Printing to turn physical objects to digital and then recloned. I was particularly interested in the 3D Scanning since it was a very iterative and long process to get a decent scan into a digital copy. As such, I explored a bunch of scanner apps in my phone! There were lots available:
A lot of the scanner apps were unfortunately very difficult to utilize as they would focus more on mapping the photographs than detailing the surfaces. I ended up spending the most time on two: an app called MagiScan- which did a decent job but was hard to export, and another named Heges:
Due to the comprehensiveness of the app, Heges was very optimal for scanning my head. It had a user friendly UI and the scans would normally take couple minutes. However, this would still take a lot of iterations:
Eventually when the most ideal 3d scan was obtained, it was possible to begin playing around with this model. First, I started by exporting the model as an stl file and obj file, then saving it to my personal drive and importing it into Rhino.
After having prepared my 3D files I edited and cleaned the mesh in the Rhinofile towards a better quality 3D print. This included dividing the head into two parts- forehead and below, and forehead and above as the forehead area had the largest diameter.
I used cura to slice my object. The cura settings were already adjusted to my 3D printer- ender 3 as I had a 3D printing project the week before.
I want to also try to print on fabric with thin layers of tpe filament and here are my past experiments: