I’m having a bit of a hard time with this, but I also acknowledge this is still relatively niche still.

I’d like to make printed recreations of some parts that I currently have. They’re unfortunately a bit complex to quickly recreate manually in a sculpting software. I do have an iPad PRo and a budget for any additional hardware to help. I was hoping I could find a carousel I could connect to the iPad Pro and use and app to control the carousel and scan the parts. I’m not finding anything.

Can anyone recommend a good setup to make 3D scans of these small parts, or an app/hardware combo that could help me accomplish this?

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    You could look into an opensource project like https://en.openscan.eu/ depending on how “small” these parts actually are.

    It requires some initial printing as well as some hardware kit purchases (provided) for the servo and controller board, but I saw a demo on youtube once that provided surprisingly good point cloud accuracy from one of these OpenScan pedestals. Good enough that you could probably generate smooth surfaces from them and make a usable part with minimal model post processing. And definitely better than you’ll ever get from a freehand smartphone/iPad scan.