No matter how cheap 3d scanners get, building one might be your cheapest option and it’s also a fun experiment. Instructables.com is a great place to load up on ideas, and tutorials, and it didn’t let us down with this topic as well. User shapespeare has two awesome tutorials on how to get the… Read More
Maybe the most convenient devices are the hand-held ones. 3d system has two of them. Their original Sense and the new Structure sensor (or iSense), adopted from Occipital (you could win the latter in our december sweepstake). The Sense connects to a computer, but the iSense (see our featured picture above) works together with… Read More
We can safely say, that photogrammetry is the most popular way for creating a 3d object out of a real life subject. No need for poking around with probes, nor for shooting high-tech laser beams, ultrasound, just a few – ok, hundreds of – photos (see the picture above), taken from different angles. Fortunately, there… Read More
So you might be a skilled 3d modeler, but what can you do, when simply reverse engineering the reality is not enough or it just takes too much time? You use a 3d scanner! But how do we get a real life object into the computer? There are more kind of technologies available… Read More