Next Engine

[mikeacg]

Dana (and Jim),

I did the Penguin pile in Sculptris and it cut out really nice on my machine. I really like it!

[taskins]

Jim,
Sculptris imports OBJ with no problem. Now I've got another program to learn....

[ironsides]

It seems like I read somewhere that ShopBot is going to introduce a 3D Laser Scanner attachment in the near future.

Any thoughts on this?

If not them then someone is missing a good opportunity to use the CNC X/Y/Z hardware. All that would be needed is the rest of the Laser/Camera/Software components.

George

[ironsides]

After thinking about what I just said in the previous post, the Next Engine 3D Scanner and a bracket or adapter to attach the their box to the Z head would be a good system.

A very long part should be able to be scanned this way.

George

[taskins]

Gary-
I've done that several times. I made a bracket to hold the computer on the back side of the Z carraige. I mounted the scanner on the bottom of the Z and a keyboard/mouse tray on the side of the gantry. I'm going to experiment with using my indexer next.

Tim

[cabnet636]

i had a really good scan of the chess player last night (for some video) and will try using the cnc next on a larger scan, i am getting to like my next engine

[ironsides]

Gary-
I've done that several times. I made a bracket to hold the computer on the back side of the Z carraige. I mounted the scanner on the bottom of the Z and a keyboard/mouse tray on the side of the gantry. I'm going to experiment with using my indexer next.

Tim

Tim --
How about posting a picture of your bracket, with the scanner attached, on this Forum.
Thanks.

George

[taskins]

George-
I don't have a standard Bot so I don't know how much help it will be. I'm not scanning anything right now and I have to take the router off to mount the scanner....but I'll be scanning some long parts in a couple of weeks and I'll take some pictures when I have it set up and running.

[cabnet636]

mounting the next engine is not so difficult it has the standard 1/4-20 thread tripod mount and works from a stand still basis best. it will scan and keep scale as long as the dimensional relation ship between the scanner and the part are the same if it is to be "meshed or blended in the scna studio software, otherwise the scan can be imported into third party software and attached. i have done this in aspire

[myxpykalix]

Tim,
out of curiosity, why do you have a Z setup like that? What do you cut that requires a setup like that?