3D Scanner question

[Cuda416]

That I can agree with.

 

[gzig5]

Hey there, I am actually an Applications Engineer for Creaform, but I myself am based in Houston. We are the leading technology in the 3D scanner world. Obviously as a hobbiest you don't want to spend an arm and leg on a scanner, but we actually sell an academic level scanner for I think around $10k that is very good called the Peel 3D. Like others have mentioned it's a point cloud mesh .STL you are generating. With this you need additional software to reverse engineering and truly dimension the model accurately from the .STL into something usable and 3D printable. Our software has this capability to be able to develope a solid model from the mesh without having to deal with other 3rd party softwares.

For most of us doing hobby car stuff, $10k for something like a scanner is an arm, leg, and a kidney.

 

[DartThis74]

Right, totally agree, but just stating that that particular scanner is our bottom tier scanner available because you don't need the very high resolution/ accuracy that the other scanners we have would result in producing. I don't know what OP is trying to do outside of this one project they mentioned, so Just giving a budgetary number of what it costs so the OP doesn't waste time if out of their realm is all.