3D Scanning and
Printing (week 06).
Group assignment: Test the design rules for your 3D printer(s).
Please refer to section ______.
Individual assignment: Design
and 3D print an object (small, few cm3, limited by printer time)
that could not be made subtractively. Also, we are to
3D scan an object (and optionally print it).
For this task, I used Thinkercad
website to generate my own version of the sphere inside an open faces dice. I
often use this software when I teach 3D model creation in elementary and high
school classes. I also took the liberty of trying a new slicer web software
call Pathio to asses ease of utilization and how
robust the software behaves.
Find here a view of the
product in Thinkercad environment, one view in Pathio and the final product while printing and in its
final stage:
We also routinely print as
a mean of calibrating our 3D printers, a bench capacities object. Reproduce
here is one such file we often use, from Thingiverse
website:
Finally, last part of this
week assignment, the scanning I decided to try an application, running on
iPhone: Qlone. This proprietary software, runs entirely on
one’s smartphone, use a referential mattress, the Qlone
Mat, to assign coordinate while scanning an object and in real time assemble
the emerging 3D representation of the object. We tried this piece of software,
even though we’ve used KScan3D in my Lab in the past with satisfactory results
but unfortunately is not supported anymore. So, the ease of using and readily
available device (smartphone) seemed a perfect solution for elementary and high
school classes (my first preoccupation).
Find here, Qlone Mat, Annie’s hand cream view after been scan,
handheld phone and single pass and rendering animation of the results.
With the scarcity of time,
I didn’t do more then this, single pass, attempt. The software permits multiple
pass and even a correcting some section of the scan (much like here the sealed
end of the tube). I will need to explore more in detail the capacity of the
software, but just not here!! (more to come! I guess?!).