3D Scanning and printing

1. 3d scanner

My first contact with this kind of technologie was using 123d catch, taking more than 20 but less than 70 photos i can build a 3d model. The problem was the ilumination, is actually easy to use but in the process I learned how to use this tool.

In this model i had a lot of mistakes because the model was symetrical and the texture was repetitive. Also the black part was always not good scanned, i tryed again installing a better place to take the pictures with almost the same ilumination and without high contrast of light in the background.

After setting a better place for taking the photos this are my results.

This was an old sculpture that i made as i was child, i scanned it in order to put it on my design renders, i think a use for this tool is to take some things of our world to the render of future projects. Its really nice

This is a traditional hen of Ayacucho with this project i would like to include some archeological pieces or traditional ceramic pieces into the digital world.

And this finally was a sculpture of Cusco, the mapping was here really amazing, is a the typical dress of Tinta a small town in Cusco.

I was testing also the roland modella scanner, it takes arround 10 hours to scann a small crocodile aprox. 50mm x 30mm x 20mm but unfortunatly almost at the end of the process the electric enerty of fablab falls down and i lose the data of this experience.

2. 3d Printing

In this assignment i wanted to print all the fabulous and complicated shapes that i can generate with grasshopper, this all shapes are really impossible to build with another process. So i started creating this complicated shapes in order to take them into the real world.

I was using the red machine, we were trying to make work the ultimaker but we didnt have luck.

 

Before printing i had to set up the 3d printer i learned about the definition of the piece and the texture of the structural shapes. This photo will explain what i mean.

The first model has a 45 angle of base and a very low resolution, the second model has a 10 degrees base, high resolution.

Another tests were this

After this process i decided to print this shape:

We couldn't use the machine for a lot of time so I decided to do experiments, my first model result was this.

The 3d printer created a structure outside and inside the model, i though it was because in grasshopper the circles were tangent one to the other, because of that i decided to intersect al objects of the geometry and i tryed with this form.