Has anyone here tried to use an Android phone or iphone with scanning app to scan surfboards?
Looks very promising, I will give it a try when I have a suitable phone available.
http://3dprint.com/15947/autodesk-123d-catch-android/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.autodesk.Catch&hl=en
Pity you don’t have either an Android or iPhone available !
4 days ago I called a guy at 3-D shapes in France about finding someone in Australia who has scanning and cutting capabilities. They directed me to Piranhashapes in Mona Vale who don’t have a website, don’t answer their emails and the phone is disconnected so I’m guessing they’re not in business anymore.
Handheld scanners exist in other industries but are they being used in Surfcraft manufacture ? Maybe it could be used to scan and 3-D print fins ?
Anyone got a link to someone in Australia please ?
Try Jon at
Choas in
Brookvale
I’m going to check those links out. Would save time and money if that can be done. We have someone here on the West Coast who is reported to be the best. Connected to Shape3D. Her husband used to post here on Sways as Surfding.
Love my IPhone. Two years and I’m just beginning to realize all the possibilities.
be very surprised if a phone app could accurately scan a board, industrial scanners have problems accurately ‘logging and replicating’ all the curves and nuances. An interesting article on the challenge scanning boards in the new Surfers Journal. Not so long ago Brewer discussed the issues of having his ‘masters’ scanned…apparently each time they got scanned, they came out different then the time before. And if the board has ever been waved or ridden…forget about it
I guess you haven’t seen what they have been doing lately. You’re talking ancient history.
I took a Probox cant insert to an open house about a year ago at a 3D print service I use at work. I heard they were going to be scanning. I was told it was portable, professional grade, and expensive.
I gave them the insert to try. First they had a hard time with it being red. They spray-painted it white and tried again. Better, but the data would still require manual clean-up time to make it print-ready. Apparently there was just not enough ‘stuff’ for the scanner to see. Sometimes they place target stickers on objects to help give the scanner things to see. The scanner also has to be moved around the object 3 or 4 times to locate features, relate them to one another, and build a data set.
So much for me getting a free set of filler plugs…
Not to say it can’t be done, I just haven’t seen it yet.
Thanks for the tip Lakewakes, I spoke with Jon who doesn’t have a scanner but talks with great insight about plotting and I’m going to see him later this week.
There’s a scanner in Byron Bay and another in Sydney’s west but they want $500 to scan each design.
Followe’d the instructions, took 40 photos of all angles and here’s the 3-D result, with the real fin first.
The result is better than I expected and with a bit of practice I’m sure it would be a lot better.
Nice Brett! Are you going to try a surfboard ?
i have looked into scaners for my cnc i built but finding something that was cheap ish and that would do a good job was asking to much. To get something to give acurate and reliable results it came down to using something like a faro arm but those things are not cheap! when it comes down to it its probably just as quick to just take a few dimenshions by hand and put it in to shape3d, you will have to do a sertain amount of work to get the scan in to it anyway so its no free ride with a scan. The way i have been mesuring boards manualy is to use a laser disto to take mesurments which then can be put into shape 3d very easily once you learn how to use it and what all the numbers mean. you only need 4 or so slices to get a acurate shape. things like concaves are very easy to put in acuratly. You can allso you a profile gauge to do efectivly what a scaner does and then litraly hold it up to the computer
Jrandy said .“Nice Brett! Are you going to try a surfboard ?”
I think the main problem is with how I took the pics for the software to work with. It doesn’t like shiny surfaces or uneven light or similar colours with the background. I’ll work more with the phone app but it’s just an app. I don’t think it’s something to be relied upon.
At the level of accuracy I’m working with I’m far better off with Rohans (RDM) expertise and my 3-D printer.
It appears my post from yesterday has vanished…anyway, I found that 123D Scan is a big pain, in the sense that every photo needs to be uploaded to their server for processing. I suggest you read the EULA or whatever, to find out what they allow themselves do with your scans. 123D Scan did not work for scanning a small surfboard model, but I was going against instructions and turned the object, rather than circling the object with the camera. I may try again if I get bored.
I shall put in the effort and try to learn how to use meshlab instead.
Here a link to this much more powerful (but less user friendly?) version of scanning software in open source: http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
http://www.3d-coform.eu/ And by "tangible cultural heritage’ they mean…Surfboards, what else? :-)(
the other one to try is the david scan program but that costs a bit to get it set up, if you can find some one with it though it would be worth trying
This is a strap on scanner for ipads ,has been out for a little while, It looks pretty interesting and is a relatively low price ($450 US)… but I think it might not be accurate enough to do a surfboard , though it might work on a fin.
At the very least it gives a glimpse of what might be possible in the near future …
http://3dprintingindustry.com/2015/01/06/structure-sensors-new-feature-ces-showroom-virtual-reality/
