Beta testing NextEngine's Dual-axis positioner for 3D Scans (LEAKED)

The two axis robotic positioner isn't on the market yet (at the time of publishing this video). I was lucky to get my hands on one for testing with my HD Scanner. Makes 3D Scanning a small object practically a one-click operation. Video is time lapse. Shows scan result at end.

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Science & Technology

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• nextengine
• next
• engine
• 3d
• scan
• scanner
• scanning
• laser
• dual
• axis
• dual-axis

[dionkraft]

Hey that works a lot better than my Roland LPX250! The only problem is the size of the scanner item is limited unless you had a larger turntable and more powerfull servos and motors to angle the scanned item. Still I am interested into getting an NeXTEngine.

[3DScanTester]

The single axis positioner (comes standard) has a weight limit of 20 lbs, and works in both WIDE and MACRO modes. The dual-axis positioner has a 2 lb weight limit and is for MACRO mode only, meaning a scan window of 4" x 5".

It still may be useful for objects larger than the scan window, since you can move the object and collect more scans to complete your model.

Excellent for small parts such as jewelry, dental molds, hearing aids, small engine parts/turbine blades, small maquettes, etc.

[3dcgi]

How long did it take to scan, since this was timelapse?

[3DScanTester]

The entire sequence was 14 scans (4 bottom, 6 middle, 4 top), and took about 35 minutes to complete. While the white lights are on the system is taking a 2D RGB picture, used for the texture maps. The overall time could have been reduced by using monochrome textures.

[Blitzorzz]

Can I use this to scan wax replicas of jewelry? I would need it to scan finer details in the jewelry, add my own diamond models to the scanned setting and do renders of them. Is this scanner capable of capturing details while smoothing less detailed parts of jewelry?

[StormRisingOriginal]

@3DScanTester I am experimenting with this very 3d scanner. It seems I am having calibration issues. Could you inform me of the best method for accurate calibration? My first scan out of the box auto-aligned the mesh scans nicely. But the fallowing meshes are out of sync with each other. What exactly could cause this?

[czechys]

Do you have to crop out the white plate that it sits on? Does it help if the plate is black? Does it help if its a dark room? Thanks I'm looking at getting one :)

[andyarceye]

@dionkraft What you were not shown is the time it takes after the actual scan to manipulate the model by filling in the holes, trimming the noise out and manually removing the overlaps of each different scan orientation, oh and of course the software crashing with almost every trim unless the model is saved in between each trim.

Then after all that effort and work it is possible to get the results shown in this video

[buffLaser2000]

@michibovetti Something doesn't sound right. This scan was done on a 32 bit XP system. No problem scanning and fusing the model.

[michibovetti]

Hi, yes i contacted them. It seems is a problem of Windows which is only 32 istead of 64 bits. Basically with 32 bits the system cannot recognize all the RAM in it and runs slow. If this is not the case, i'll return the overdrive. Do you think this is correct? Any hints you can give me about this scanner or overdrive? the normal base works good, but when i try to fuse the elements i scanned, (only 4 pictures) the system crash as well...Michele.

[buffLaser2000]

@michibovetti As stated in the description, this is a time-lapse video. Regarding your problem: have you contacted NextEngine Support? That's what thy're there for.

[michibovetti]

My NextEngine works incredibly slower that that one... which specs did you type in? My overdrive also... everytime i plug it in, it crashes the system and i have to reboot. Any way to solve it? Any forum online where i can fix all my outstandings?

Thanks