3D Printing & Scanning
It still amazes me how technology has advanced in the past years regarding 3D scanning and 3D printing, it is great to see these fields rapidly growing and becoming more popular each day, especially how useful they can be in rapid prototyping.
As fancy of a term as it sounds, it is really much easier than one would expect at first.
The first step for 3D scanning myself was to prepare the equipment and the surrounding area in order to do the scan easily.
This was done by making putting a revolving chair in front of an xbox kinect (around 1.5 meters away) and making sure there is nothing around the chair (of approximitly 1 meter radius), that way, I didn't have to remove that many items from the final scan.
After that, I opened the software KScan3d for 3D scanning, and set the program to take 12 shots with 5 seconds between each shot, allowing me to turn and prepare for the next shot. I tried my best to rotate by around 30 degrees for each shot (360/12=30)
When the scanning finished, I used the software to combine the photos, render them, and exported an STL file so I can 3D print it.
Now that I am finished with scanning myself, I wanted to 3D print it. To do so, I used Cura software to export the gcode file for my print,
loaded the file on an SD Card into the 3D printer in the lab (Ultimaker 3+), and started printing.
And this is the final product :D
