Creality 3d scanner ferret 3d
Hello. I mostly work with sheet metal parts and sometimes customers sends some angled brackets or other complicated parts that take ages to redraw and reverse engineer. Has anyone got an experience with cr scan 3d ferret or any similar cheap 3d scanners? Is that something to look into? How hard it is to scan data and then work up to 3d modeled sheet metal part? Can anybody give me advice on this or it is better just to stick with measuring up everything and redrawing? I would mostly use it for like brackets with couple angled folds.
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Hi @Gints!
Perhaps for the simple applications that you mention, a 3D scanner is not so necessary or practical. Especially because of its post-processing, which is not as magical as the advertisements show, and don't get your hopes up that "you pass the scanner over the piece" and you already have an editable 3D model!
In your case, and without initially spending money, you could try digital scanning (by photogrammetry) which is solved by taking images from different points of view and processing them to undo the perspective image (this is done automatically by the photogrammetry software). You can get STL or OBJ models, which you may use to a limited extent, just to draw some lines and measure angles, for example (without trying to turn it into an editable solid model... which is a lot of work).
You can see opinions in this link:
https://bitfab.io/es/blog/escanear-3d-movil/
