I mean: Who doesn't know them in front of their favorite gelateria. Sized at 1.5m height a kids dream to eat and mine to scan.

Scanning

The scan was created in large IR-mode with automatic exposure and geometry tracking. P1 now can to a steady 19-20fps in standalone mode so tracking was no problem. I simply scanned segments of the cone and then moved to the next segment (roughly thirds), circling around can cause problems with tracking. Impressed tracking wasn't lost at the base with relatively low amount of unique geometry.

Post-Processing

For post processing I first transferred the scan data from the P1 to my workstation. You can either do it by cable where a nice import menu opens or over WiFi where you select the project on the scanner, join the hotspot of the scanner with your PC and send it to the PC (option I chose, simply less cables and quite fast with up to 120MB/s from testing). I then fused the scan at 1mm with 50% noise removal to retain detail (default noise removal tends to be a bit high) and meshed it with default settings. After meshing I performed color mapping and did a rough alignment withing Creality Scan (tip: right click gives you the option to enable orthographic view, makes alignment much easier).

Result

Best have a look at Sketchfab, texture came out quite poppy and life-like. Also the mesh detail is good for 1mm resolution.

Sketchfab

Sketchfab is like printables for 3d scans with a nice integrated viewer in browser and you can also download the scan, just look at the scan yourself.
Reddit sadly blocks the short links to Sketchfab, you have to search for the title instead: "Giant Ice Cone - Creality Sermoon P1"

PC Specs

Since a lot of people ask for it:

• AMD Ryzen 7950X
• 128GBGB DDR5 RAM
• RTX 5070Ti Desktop
• A few TB of NVME storage with PCIe Gen4 interface

Printables-Link: https://www.printables.com/model/1717073-share-c1-lidar-scanner-3d-scanned-if-anyone-wants

Just did a quick scan of the Share C1 so I can design some Add-ons I might need for future projects (and maybe a drone mount xD). Wanted to get the can in the wild should anyone also need it. At least the battery is similar to the Share S20 and S20 SE.

Scanning

Scanning was done with the Einscan Rigil at 0.15mm resolution in wireless mode (to use the 120 FPS scan speed, simply faster than standalone for high resolution). Battery and protective cover were scanned without any spray. For the core scanner spray was used on the lenses and lidar unit. All parts were scanned from two sides and aligned with automatic feature alignment. Parts were placed on a bed of marker geometries and marker plates.

Post-Processing

Default processing at unwatertight and recommended settings. This includes point cloud generation on my PC, automatic alignment of the two scans and trimming away unnecessary data from the overlapping area (e.g. rough scanned overhang that was necessary for alignment but not wanted in the final scan).
The meshes were then exported to Quicksurface which I used for aligning the scans to each other and reducing the scan size to a more reasonable quality.

#3dscanning #quicksurface

PC Specs

Since a lot of people ask for it:

• AMD Ryzen 7950X
• 128GBGB DDR5 RAM
• RTX 5070Ti Desktop
• A few TB of NVME storage with PCIe Gen4 interface

My Marker Geometries

Quite a lot of people regularly ask about the geometries I use for easier tracking, here they are: https://www.printables.com/model/1543571-marker-geometries-for-3d-scanning-including-marker

The P1 arrives with a spare battery to quickly continue scanning after the first one dies. In its original case it has quite a nice and protected place but I like to toss the P1 in other cases or bags so the battery has to go with it. Since it has exposed pins (not exposed but something like a key or coin could lodge in the contacts) I wanted a small protective cover that just slides on the battery and protects the pins from any foreign material. The part I came up with must be printed from TPU and is friction fit on the battery and is small enough to still fit on one of the compartments of the original case when using it.
You may also look at the lens protector and lens covers I designed for the P1 to allow transport outside of the original case (still pay attention not to damage the scanner).

Link to the battery protection: https://www.printables.com/model/1591249-creality-sermoon-p1-battery-protection-to-keep-the

Link to the lens protectors: https://www.printables.com/model/1585975-creality-sermoon-p1-lens-protector-usable-while-sc

Link to the scan of the Sermoon P1: https://www.printables.com/model/1585972-creality-sermoon-p1-3d-scan

Printing and Assembly

I just used my A1 Mini and some cheap Geetech TPU, 0,4mm nozzle works fine and a softer TPU may be preferable. After printing remove eventual stringing from the parts and slide the protector on the battery when transporting it outside of the original case.

Simply wanted to test how well it performs with a rice waffle, will redo the same scan (of maybe a different waffle, ate this one) with other scanners in the future.

Scanning

Scan was done at 0.1mm resolution in laser mode with texture capture enabled in standalone mode. Scanned from top and bottom on a bed on marker cards and geometries. No scan spray was used for this scan.

Post-Processing

Manual alignment was done in Exscan Rigil and meshing as semi watertight. Textures were not adjusted further after scanning, result is as scanned.

Sketchfab

Sketchfab is like printables for 3d scans with a nice integrated viewer in browser and you can also download the scan, just look at the scan yourself.
Reddit sadly blocks the short links to Sketchfab, you have to search for the title instead: "Rice Waffle - Einscan Rigil"

PC Specs

Since a lot of people ask for it:

• AMD Ryzen 7950X
• 128GBGB DDR5 RAM
• RTX 5070Ti Desktop
• A few TB of NVME storage with PCIe Gen4 interface

My Marker Geometries

Quite a lot of people regularly ask about the geometries I use for easier tracking, here they are: https://www.printables.com/model/1543571-marker-geometries-for-3d-scanning-including-marker

Scan was needed to create some custom equipment that will be fit in the trunk (mainly IT hardware). There are options to buy or get CAD data of vehicles but sometimes they can be a bit vague and doing a quick scan by myself still is the option I trust most (maybe at some point I will splurge on a used Freescan Nova, who knows. For now the Rigil does all I need).

Scanning

Scanning was done in standalone IR mode at 1mm resolution and markerless tracking. No textures were captured which led to a framerate of roughly 24FPS (with textures more like 20). No special preparation was done, just straight up scanned in a garage. Tracking worked fine, for the roof I had to work up from the sides to use existing geometry as reference. First scan was done with the lid open to scan the whole trunk interior and the second one with the lid closed from the inside to capture the lid position. First scan took maybe 5min, second one more like 2min.

Post-Processing

Default processing at unwatertight and recommended settings. This includes point cloud generation on my PC, automatic alignment of the two scans, trimming away unnecessary data from the lid scan (only need the lid, not the overlapping trunk) and then meshing. Later used Quicksurface for fine alignment of the trunk using a symmetry plane and two automatically fitted reference planes. Also separated the trunk lid as a separate part for better usability (sketchfab sadly includes bot, simply easier for upload).

Sketchfab

Sketchfab is like printables for 3d scans with a nice integrated viewer in browser and you can also download the scan, just look at the scan yourself.
Reddit sadly blocks the short links to Sketchfab, you have to search for the title instead: "Opell Astra K Sports Tourer - Einscan Rigil"

PC Specs

Since a lot of people ask for it:

• AMD Ryzen 7950X
• 128GBGB DDR5 RAM
• RTX 5070Ti Desktop
• A few TB of NVME storage with PCIe Gen4 interface

Trench art is an decorative item made by soldiers directly linked to the conflict. In this case defused bullets on a stone pedestal as well as a grenade fragment, created 1914 in Lieppe during WW1. The piece is part of a collection.

Scanning

For scanning I placed the piece on a bed of marker cards and geometries. The scan itself was created in standalone mode with marker tracking and 0.2mm resolution in laser mode with texture capture enabled. It tool roughly 5min to reach full data quality.

Post-Processing

Processing was done on my PC and consisted of point cloud generation, mesh generation and texture mapping. All done with recommended default parameters.

Sketchfab

Sketchfab is like printables for 3d scans with a nice integrated viewer in browser and you can also download the scan, just look at the scan yourself.
Reddit sadly blocks the short links to Sketchfab, you have to search for the title instead: "Trench Art Munition - Einscan Rigil"

PC Specs

Since a lot of people ask for it:

• AMD Ryzen 7950X
• 128GBGB DDR5 RAM
• RTX 5070Ti Desktop
• A few TB of NVME storage with PCIe Gen4 interface

My Marker Geometries

Quite a lot of people regularly ask about the geometries I use for easier tracking, here they are: https://www.printables.com/model/1543571-marker-geometries-for-3d-scanning-including-marker

Initially the Sermoon P1 only reached roughly 5 to 7 FPS in IR mode when scanning standalone (without a PC connection). For comparison: with a PC connection it can reach 30 FPS scanning speed.
Always hoped this was a software, not a hardware limitation and therefore can be increased with future updates. And as we can see it was a software limitation. With the latest firmware version (1.0.39) the P1 reaches ~18 FPS in IR large mode and ~19 FPS in IR small mode. This change finally makes standalone IR scanning faster and the experience closer to PC connected scanning (laser does a pretty steady 60 FPS in standalone mode vs 80 wireless and 100 wired).
Hopefully this also is some preparation for the upcoming feature of markerless laser scanning (basically uses IR mode for tracking and the lasers for scanning). S1 already received the update and from what I was told at Formnext the P1 will also get this feature, hopefully quite soon. But I guess in the end we'll see and as always: Only buy for the features you currently get and see everything else that may come as a welcome add-on.

I was tasked with scanning a series of wax castings (Votivtafeln) from a collection (most of them are collectibles from monasteries). They range from simple negatives to intricate statues with wood grain and high detail, depicting a mixture of traditional and cleric scenes. This one is bit special because I extracted some of the motives for later milling tasks. For this I used auto surfacing in Quicksurface Pro (basically you isolate the part of the mesh you want to have as a step surface and click on auto surface). The whole process of creating the step file from a single motive took roughly 1min with this approach (captured the process as a short which I will also post here).

Scanning

Scanning was done in PC connected mode (WiFi, with latest update 120FPS speed) at a moderate high point distance of 0.15mm (can go up/down to 0.05mm but at 0.15mm it already resulted in a 20M triangle file...) until target quality was reached. Keep an eye on ideal scan distance since it reduces with increasing point distance. When you are too far away scanning will be drastically slower compared to when you're in the ideal distance.
I placed the casting on bed of marker cards and geometries so I can also capture the sides of the casting. The scan itself was performed with both cross and parallel line mode taking roughly 5min for scanning. No scan spray was used for scanning.

Post-Processing

Only processing needed was mesh generation since finishing the scan already creates a point cloud. Afterwards I used Quicksurface to align the scan to the coordinate system and reduce the triangle count to a manageable 4M triangles.
For creating the step model I just isolated one of the motifs and used auto surfacing (basically one click) toleranced to 0.1mm (everything in green).

Results

Best have a look at the sketchfab model, the detail captured is very good. Will do another smaller piece at 0.05mm point distance for comparison when I scan the next batch (sorry forgot again this time...). For the small motives it may have been beneficial but the scan size increases exponentially, at 0.15mm it already is roughly 8M triangles coming out of ExScan.

Sketchfab

Sketchfab is like printables for 3d scans with a nice integrated viewer in browser and you can also download the scan, just look at the scan yourself.
Reddit sadly blocks the short links to Sketchfab, you have to search for the title instead: "Wax Casting with Folk Motifs - Einscan Rigil"

PC Specs

Since a lot of people ask for it:

• AMD Ryzen 7950X
• 128GBGB DDR5 RAM
• RTX 5070Ti Desktop
• A few TB of NVME storage with PCIe Gen4 interface

My Marker Geometries

Quite a lot of people regularly ask about the geometries I use for easier tracking, here they are: https://www.printables.com/model/1543571-marker-geometries-for-3d-scanning-including-marker

In this video I just want to give you an idea of what you can use auto surfacing in Quicksurface Pro for. In my case organic parts of which I just want to create step files for milling without completely reverse-engineering the part and sinking too much time in the task.
The final step file will be quite large (sometimes in the dozens of MB) due to the high amount of organic faces created by auto surfacing. This may be a limitation for your use case and must be mentioned at this point.

My kindle came to show some age related weaknesses in its frame and since replacement parts are simply non-existant I wanted to create a bumper to protect the housing and to cover already existing damages.

Scanning

For scanning I used my Einscan Rigil at a resolution of 0.2mm. The surface of the Kindle is quite challenging (light absorbing soft touch rubber) so I had to enable reflective mode to get the extra brightness boost to not require scan spray. To later allow proper alignment I scanned the front and back as well as one standing upright (this scan was only used for alignment and removed from the project before meshing). Meshing was done at recommended settings.
When looking at the scan results I am quite impressed: All ports (even the tiny led hole) are captured as well as the existing damage to the frame I will design around. Even more interesting is the front of the scan: It scanned trough the matte plastic display cover and you can still see the image on the e-ink (screensaver with a bunch of pen heads).

Design

Whole design was done in Quicksurface Pro, didn't open Fusion at all. Just wanted to have a tightly fitting TPU case so straight forward task of a few sketches based on the scan and dynamic filleting (the live tolerance preview really helps for this one, in normal CAD I would only guess or act based on a most likely off measurement). Scan really helped to create the cutouts for the ports. Always very satisfying to make the design fit on the first try. Deviation shows a tolerance of roughly 0.2mm which is quite fine for using it with TPU prints.
Sometimes people tend to critique using the whole scan and reverse engineering approach for "simple designs" but I did enough "simple" projects the normal way where I ended up tweaking fitment multiple times and taking way longer than just doing a quick scan. For reference the whole scan and scan post processing took roughly 10min and the Quicksurface design 15min.

Printing

Printed the case from TPU (actually must be TPU, otherwise won't fit on the kindle due to the case being stretch for mounting). Just used my A1 Mini with some generic TPU. I needed to flame the etches a bit to remove uncomfortable high spots and ridges but now the case is very comfortable and even improved my experience due to providing a better grip and protecting the power button from accidental usage. To more securely attach the case I used some thin double sided tape between print and Kindle on the sides, otherwise the case may stretch a bit (in the end it's a long, thin rubber part...).

Printables

Here you can find the step file for the case and also the scan of the Kindle (in case anyone wants to design their own parts in future): https://www.printables.com/model/1699495-kindle-paperwhite-gen-10-tpu-bumper-and-3d-scan

My Marker Geometries

Quite a lot of people regularly ask about the geometries I use for easier tracking, here they are: https://www.printables.com/model/1543571-marker-geometries-for-3d-scanning-including-marke

Friend of mine wants to create some custom seat covers for his car so did a quick scan. Let's see if I will also create the cutting templates, currently playing around a bit with flattening tool in Quicksurface so we'll see.

Scanning

Scanning was done in standalone mode at 0.5mm resolution and markerless laser mode. No special preparation was done, just straight up scanned at the parking lot. Tracking worked very fine due to the stitching on the seat. Whole scan was 2 to 3 min.

Post-Processing

Default processing at semi-watertight, this includes point cloud generation on my PC and then meshing. Stitching and seams came out pretty good and this is the main part that interests me.

Sketchfab

Sketchfab is like printables for 3d scans with a nice integrated viewer in browser and you can also download the scan, just look at the scan yourself.
Reddit sadly blocks the short links to Sketchfab, you have to search for the title instead: "Opel Corsa Seat - Einscan Rigil Markerless Laser"

PC Specs

Since a lot of people ask for it:

• AMD Ryzen 7950X
• 128GBGB DDR5 RAM
• RTX 5070Ti Desktop
• A few TB of NVME storage with PCIe Gen4 interface

My Marker Geometries

Quite a lot of people regularly ask about the geometries I use for easier tracking, here they are: https://www.printables.com/model/1543571-marker-geometries-for-3d-scanning-including-marker

For a few years I've been using a custom designed server for my HomeLab. It's a mini ITX case I gutted and played Tetris with to fit an M-ATX mainboard, three slot GPU and multiple hard drives as well as regular sized power-supply. Since the mainboard is offset in the case I also need a custom IO Shield and now was time to upgrade mainboard and therefore design a new IO shield. If you're interested in the whole case mod just let me know, I can do a separate post about it (original case is a Jonsplus i100 Pro).

Scanning

Since I was in my workshop and only had my quite low-spec laptop (thin and light, 16GB of RAM) with me I chose a resolution of 0.3mm for scanning on my MetroY Pro. Aside from this it was a very default scan: Black object mode with auto exposure and cross-lines until data quality was reached. I processed the the scan in default settings on the laptop and then directly exported to Quicksurface Pro.

Design

This was a very straight-forward design in Quicksurface Pro (Pro is needed for the CAD part) of just two sketches based on the scan: First to extrude the shield itself with all the cutouts based on the 3D scan and then a second one for the rim. For me it was still faster than only using manual measurements and traditional CAD before you ask. Whole process of scan and design were 15min.

Printing

Printed the IO shield from PETG and attached to the case with some glue (E3000 I think). All cutouts fit the thirst time so no reason to complain xD

My Marker Geometries

Quite a lot of people regularly ask about the geometries I use for easier tracking, here they are: https://www.printables.com/model/1543571-marker-geometries-for-3d-scanning-including-marker

I was tasked with scanning a series of wax castings from a collection (most of them are collectibles from monasteries). They range from simple negatives to intricate statues with wood grain and high detail, depicting a mixture of traditional and cleric scenes.

Scanning

Scanning was done in standalone mode at highest resolution (0.2mm, PC connected can be higher) and until target quality was reached. I placed the casting on bed of marker cards and geometries so I can also capture the sides of the casting. The scan itself was performed with all three laser modes taking roughly 5min for scanning. No scan spray was used for scanning.

Post-Processing

I imported the scan project to my PC over USB and then fused the scan at default settings (0.2mm). Afterwards I used Quicksurface to align the scan to the coordinate system. For this part I also did a quick reverse engineering of the negative for later milling. I simply used auto surfacing in Quicksurface toleranced to 0.1mm (everything in green within 0.1mm).

Sketchfab

Sketchfab is like printables for 3d scans with a nice integrated viewer in browser and you can also download the scan, just look at the scan yourself.
Reddit sadly blocks the short links to Sketchfab, you have to search for the title instead: "Wax Casting of Church - Creality Sermoon P1"

PC Specs

Since a lot of people ask for it:

• AMD Ryzen 7950X
• 128GBGB DDR5 RAM
• RTX 5070Ti Desktop
• A few TB of NVME storage with PCIe Gen4 interface

My Marker Geometries

Quite a lot of people regularly ask about the geometries I use for easier tracking, here they are: https://www.printables.com/model/1543571-marker-geometries-for-3d-scanning-including-marker