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3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By : Richard Salinas
Book Image

3D printing with RepRap Cookbook

By: Richard Salinas

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
3D Printing with RepRap Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Scanning with DAVID Laserscanner


In this recipe, we'll learn how to scan an object from multiple views by carefully moving the object around a central point. Using the free edition of DAVID Laserscanner, we'll save the scans as low-resolution .obj files.

Getting ready

The camera should be set up and successfully calibrated. Before we make our first scan, we need to make a minor adjustment in our camera exposure. Position the toy block on its base, as close as possible to the calibration corner. Dim the lights and turn the red-line laser on. Focus the line on the block and adjust the camera exposure until only the line is visible and sharp. Try to keep the background as dark as possible.

How to do it...

We will proceed as follows:

  1. From the side menu, select 3D Laser Scanning. Under Scanning, choose Red in the rollout-box for Laser Color.

  2. Under Result Filtering, keep the default values as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. From the top menu under Visibility, select Depth Map from the rollout-box...