Hello Revopoint team and fellow makers,
Here’s a feature idea aimed squarely at the 3D printing community - which, I suspect, is a large part of the Revopoint user base.
The idea: Add a dedicated “Prepare for 3D Printing” export path in Revo Scan 6 that optimizes the finished scan for printing and hands it off directly to popular slicers.
What it could do (one click, after mesh generation):
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Print-readiness checks & auto-repair:
- Detect and close holes in the mesh (make it watertight/manifold)
- Fix flipped/inverted normals
- Detect and fix non-manifold edges/vertices
- Optional: automatic wall-thickness check with a user-defined minimum thickness
- Optional: report of failed checks instead of silent export (so users know what needs manual attention)
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Slicer handoff:
- “Send to slicer” button: pass the optimized STL/3MF directly to the user’s configured slicer (OrcaSlicer, Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer, Cura, …) instead of just saving a file to disk
- Configurable default slicer path, similar to how 3D printing suites integrate external tools
- For fit-part workflows (e.g. scanning a recess to design a fitted insert): an optional offset/fit-clearance field (e.g. +0.2 mm) applied to the exported model would save the most common manual step of scan-to-print
Why this matters:
Right now the scan-to-print workflow for us makers is: scan → edit → export STL → open slicer → hope the mesh is manifold → fix issues in a third-party tool → slice. The scanner already does the hard part (a clean 0.03 mm mesh); the last mile is manual glue work in separate tools.
As far as I can tell, no 3D scanner vendor ships their scanning software with a print-ready pipeline tuned for the maker community yet. Revopoint would be the first to close that loop - scan on a POP 4, one click, slicer opens with a watertight model. That would make Revopoint scanners considerably more attractive for the 3D printing crowd and create a strong differentiator.
The POP 4 already exports STL and 3MF, so the building blocks (mesh generation, formats) exist - this is about adding a print-optimized finishing pass and the slicer handoff on top.
Thanks for considering it!