The Next Engine Scanner was introduced from the stage of the general session at SolidWorks World 2006. Everybody was wowwed, or at least I was. ScanStudio HD is designed for all users of NextEngine 3D Scanners.
Whether you're a CGI Artist, Mechanical Design Engineer, Industrial Designer, Architect, CNC Machinist, Sculptor, or Medical technologist, ScanStudio HD is the essential tool that let's you make 3D scans and assemble digital models.
Users whose work is CAD-centric generally find it useful to upgrade to ScanStudio CAD TOOLS, which expands the HD feature set to create and export NURBS surfaces. NextEngine's 3D Scanner capture objects in full color with multi-laser precision. Breakthrough technology has made it the world's most popular 3d scanner with thousand of users in over 70 countries.
Included standard with every Scanner is NextEngine's powerful ScanStudio HD application. It manages your scanner hardware, refines your data, and assembles it into a healed 3D mesh model.
Price : $ 2,995
ScanStudio Feature :
Scanning
ScanStudio has a settings panel that allows you to directly control the Scanner instrument to define the type of scan you want. You can choose the number of scans around the object, as well as the setting the speed, resolution, distance and exposure of the scans.
Color Capture & Scaller
Create 3D renderings with visually rich and highly accurate color. Most digital cameras capture 3 color channels: red, green, and blue. The NextEngine HD scanner uses a precisely calibrated color wheel to capture 7 color channels, providing 3X more accurate color.
Processing
ScanStudio HD now performs 4X oversampling on your data. The result: higher quality, less noise. And by taking advantage of the HD hardware it's able to do this without adding extra time to your scans.
ScanStudio also lets you control how your scan data is processed to create your finished 3D surfaces.
You can set parameters that define how much mathematical filtering is applied to smooth your surfaces, as well as setting how much decimation is done to reduce the complexity and size of your model.
ScanStudio's intelligent variable decimator allows you to specify a resolution tolerance for the end result which intelligently combines triangles to shrink the dataset size while still preserving detail.
Surface Technology
Your scan data is captured as a set of XYZ points which are then automatically converted into a mesh surface comprised of triangles. This surface can have any texture applied to it, including the photographic color image of the object's surface that's captured synchronously during scanning.
Object Align
Objects are captured with a series of views from different sides. To combine these views into a single integrated model, the facets are located within a coordinate system so they can be assembled relative to one another.
Built-in Alignment Software infers the rotational axis center for the AutoPositioner, and as each scan is shot, the Aligner positions the scan relative to the others automatically.
Polishing
To refine the scan data, or remove unnecessary parts, ScanStudio HD comes with a full set of simple editing tools to smooth the surface, trim local areas and perform hole filling. Using these tools is similar to using iPhoto to edit photographs.
Fuse
Fuse is the function that combines overlapping captures and blends them together into a single fully healed model with no overlaps. You set a tolerance for how accurately the parts blend together, and the system does the work to automatically connect and blend them together into a single mesh model.
Export to file
You can export your scan data to other systems using a wide variety of output formats including STL, OBJ, U3D, VRML, XYZ points, and more.
Print
3D models built from scan data can be printed out on a variety of 3D printers from Dimension, ZCorp, 3D Systems and other vendors. These printers create actual physical models of your part in plastic or similar materials, and are very useful in making duplicates or testing your parts.
To be printable, a 3D model file must comprise a fully healed watertight mesh. Essentially, this means that the mesh of triangles describing the surface must not overlap, and that all the surfaces that make up the solid model must be closed without perforations in them.
Integrated Support
One click connects you to NextEngine's expert Applications Engineers and let's you share your screen, viewfinder, or 3D model while you chat with an Engineer in real-time.
All NextEngine Applications Engineers are based in our Santa Monica, California Headquarters, and have been factory-trained in the use of our 3D Scanning instruments and Software. These Engineers are very knowledgeable and can generally answer your questions or diagnose a problem within a few minutes. This service is available Monday through Friday from 7AM to 7PM PST, and is completely free to all NextEngine customers.
System Requirements
ScanStudio system requirements are :
- CPU : A Core 2 Duo processor of about 2GHz or more. NextEngine's multi-threaded software takes advantage of the second CPU to materially increase speed.
- Memory : DRAM is now very inexpensive (around $35 a gigabyte for PC6400 memory). Strongly recommend putting 4GB of RAM.
- GPU : GPU to render images under open GL. The features to look for are a lot of memory (like 512MB) and a decent GPU chip such as an NVidia 7600 or higher series.
- OS : Windows XP Pro, or XP Pro 64 Bit version. Vista is supported, but you will need to turn off UAC to use our software.
Overall, if you need to scan stuff you can’t model easily, and you don’t mind working with stuff that doesn’t have all the little kinks worked out yet, I would recommend this gadget. If you can model the item by using calipers and squinting one eye, then that might be the better way to go.
Scanning objects to create data is one thing. Working with scanned data to create a real model is another. Scanned data tends to be approximate, especially when you’re working with something so organic as feet. Working with organic scanned data is another issue altogether because CAD models are so precise, and working with scanned data which is so approximate is often tough to do.
Full technical specifications on the NextEngine's website, click here.
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