New to Scanning

[chrisorapello]

Hello,

I am new to scanning which is only one aspect of what I do at my job. I work at a Bronze Foundry in Pennsylvania, USA and I do the 3D Scanning and Enlarging for the company. We primarily make sculpture. The scans that I do typically either get enlarged and carved out of foam on a CNC machine or are sent out to be rapid prototyped.

I very glad to have found this forum and I look forward to hearing what everyone has to say.

Regards,

~Chris

[Leonardo.Inocencio]

Welcome to the forum. What equipment and software do you use?

[Matt Young]

Hi Chris,

Welcome to the forum!

Matt

[Joe Parsons]

Hi Chris, welcome, we do pretty much the same thing here at Liverpool Museum in the UK. Nice to have some more sculpture scanners on board!

Joe

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/cons ... tudies/3d/

[chrisorapello]

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome.

Leonardo, I use a Vivid 9i Konica Minolta scannner which uses Polygom Editing Tool (PET) I then use Rapidform to help clean up the scans and then FreeForm to finalize the object. Our scanner and our copy of Rapidform are a few years old. ...So, you're at a foundry as well?

~Chris

[Leonardo.Inocencio]

So, you're at a foundry as well?

No Chris, i work in a survey company. I asked about your equipament to understand how is your workflow. It´s always good to know other fields of application to laser scanner. We use mainly Cyclone and Autocad here.