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3D scanner app for makers and engineers

Posted: 04 Jan 2021, 16:26
by Herndl
Hello,

I’m currently working on a mobile iOS scanner app for makers and engineers with a high precision and accuracy. I think this project can be useful for many people and I would love to have some insights. The use case I’m thinking are for example spare parts replication or where you can engineer a new air box for your engine to fit, a real engineering tool, where you can place scale bars in the scan region to get accuracy.

I wanted to ask if anyone has made some good or bad experiences with mobile scanner apps? Do you use the more expensive laser or lira hardware scanners? Or do you prefer to build all your models you print from scratch?

I would really appreciate your suggestions and ideas.
Herndl

Re: 3D scanner app for makers and engineers

Posted: 05 Jan 2021, 21:20
by Micr0
Herndl wrote: 04 Jan 2021, 16:26 Hello,

I’m currently working on a mobile iOS scanner app for makers and engineers with a high precision and accuracy. I think this project can be useful for many people and I would love to have some insights. The use case I’m thinking are for example spare parts replication or where you can engineer a new air box for your engine to fit, a real engineering tool, where you can place scale bars in the scan region to get accuracy.

I wanted to ask if anyone has made some good or bad experiences with mobile scanner apps? Do you use the more expensive laser or lira hardware scanners? Or do you prefer to build all your models you print from scratch?

I would really appreciate your suggestions and ideas.
Herndl
In my experience, when you get into the area of accuracy and precision that is useful in reverse engineering, it is the hardware that tends to be the limiting factor. Not that the hardware needs to be that expensive, but the consumer stuff that is used in phones just doesn't allow a resolution fine enough to be really useful in RE. That said, the lase scanners I have seen using mobile OS devises we years ago and I'm sure the tech has improved since.