Thank you in advance. I have tried many methods before writing, so bear with me lol
A perfect example is I have a 7/8 snap on wrench 5 inches long, and I want to do a cutout in foam or hdpe. I have tried photographing, scanning and I cannot get a decent enough representation to put into the computer. have even tried using the trace tool, it has a lot to be desired. I recently found a digitizing probe for another brand CNC machine. Is there a seamless or semi decent way to digitize tools and such? My friend has a creality 3d scanner raptor pro, could this work>? Thanks in advance
Can you post the image from the scan, and an accurate overall dimension? I gotta believe you can get that close enough for foam. Assuming you’re making a drawer insert, tool storage… ??
Yes it’s for foam. I have tried lots of things, but when you take a photo, its not true, it expands from the center of the shot. And its a serious pain getting it shadow free for the trace function. This one semi finished example was a real pita. Gotta be a better way
To reduce distortion, the best way is to be as far away as possible and zoom in.
What you want is that the width (or height, or depth) of the object is small relative to the distance to the camera. The angular field of view (how much of the image the object takes up) isn’t nearly as relevant.
I’ve had good luck importing images scanned with a flatbed scanner into CC, as long as they were saved at 96dpi. The reflective nature of chrome may be an issue.
I have no issues with the scaling. The scan, crop, outline, import, convert is a really long process. Now that I know a digital probe exists, this all seems so bass ackwards.
Well I actually downloaded a program that gets me half the way there.
But seriously, I might get the small shark CNC just to be able to use the digitizer.
I have done a lot of things in my life, and I know some things are trade secrets, and I also know the companies that let you photo a drawer and they send you a perfectly cut foam have a secret, or a process, or software. But no one’s telling. I guess I’ll look into the shark system. Seriously thank all you guys.
The 3rd image you posted seems plenty good enough to manually trace.
How accurate are you trying to be? A couple of measurements and this would be pretty accurate.
It’s just a circle & a square with a little editing. I used the hex to scale the image to the actual nut size. This took a minute or two to draw up.
The only chink In the amor so far is when you go to complex edit There’s no back button and you can’t save progress I spent 10 min perfecting a tool and I hit smooth and poof All
My work was gone and no back button lol ir it looks very workable
