3D printed tooling

Cuda416 said

That's pretty good detail for no dots. The scanner I borrowed was the creality ferret. It was "OK" but I didn't have a lot of time to learn the nuances and had to give it back. I'd like to try one that has blue light scanning at some point.

I actually made and used a probe for one of my CNC machines years ago and wrote a macro to record the points in space to make the point cloud, then turned it into mesh in blender to export STL files for printing. Pain in the *** but it worked. Fun times lol.

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I can actually do "texture" scanning with the Einstar as well, which is basically just pictures and color. I tend to leave it off as I don't really care about the visuals of my models as much as the content. If I was scanning stuff to try to import it into a game engine or something I think it would be a lot more useful, but for component design I haven't really needed it. I guess it might make it easier if you wanted to measure between two features that were flat in nature, but had different colorings, like maybe the distance between text on a sign for instance.