So I’ve been using RevoScan 5 for a few days now and I have some ideas that would vastly improve the software’s usability in my opinion. You seem to care about customers’ suggestions, that’s why I chose to share my thoughts.
First of all, I have experience with $20,000+ scanners and I have to say the Mini 2’s resolution and RS5’s capabilities are very comparable to those. So great job! 
Without wasting any more time, here’s my list:
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1: SPHERE BRUSH SELECTION TOOL
1.1: This would be very useful to remove small imperfections from a complex object, which would be impossible with the current selection tools as they select across the entire scan. The tool’s size should be adjustable in millimeters. I have not seen this feature elsewhere, you could be the first to implement it!
1.2: Also, a feature where this brush could be used in reverse (to unselect parts of current selection) would be great.
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2: MERGE BY MARKER (for real this time)
There should be 3 merging modes in every scanning sofware:
- Feature, which you have and it’s working pretty good
- Point to Point (or Manual), which you incorrectly call ‘Marker’
- Marker, which you don’t have in your software
So,
2.1: You should rename the “Marker” mode to “Manual” or “Point to Point”
2.2: Make a REAL marker mode where users can select physical markers on the objects and use them to align two scans. This is mandatory in a scan software.
2.3: Also you could make an automatic marker align mode and a one manual one. (other softwares have this)
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3: REMOVE MARKER HOLES
While tracking markers in scanning works pretty good, removing markers in post-processing is a complete disaster.
3.1: It does not detect all markers
3.2: When it removes a marker, it removes material from the other side of the model too, which makes this feature unusable.
3.3: Marker hole size should be adjustable in millimeters. There are dozens of marker sizes out there, not just “small-medium-big”.
3.4: There should be a manual marker remove tool. This would be useful when the software does not detect a marker and it can’t remove it automatically. (adjustable size in mm also)
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4: SELECT FRAMES FOR TEXTURING
When I scan in color, the outcome is usually blurry. I think it would help if I could manually select only the crisp looking frames to be used for texturing.
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5: MERGE GROUPS
In this feature the separate scans would remain editable after merging (or fixing), so I could remove parts of the scan that are noisy or inaccurate, but required for alignment. A drop-down would be cool.
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6: FILTER FAKE POINTS
Sometimes the scanner records points that are simply not there, thus making that scan quite unusable. It would be great if the scanner did not record that points (that it can’t see well) in the first place. If this is not correctable in software/firmware, these errors could still be corrected / removed by using the sphere brush I mentioned.
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Summary
So these were my first suggestions for the RS5, some of them would be useful, and some of them must be implemented in my opinion (like merge by markers).
I hope you appreciate that I took the time to write this, and at least consider implementing them. I have a degree in computer science and I’ve been programming for almost 10 years, so I understand that it’s not 2 minutes to code any of these. But making good (better) software takes time and these would certainly add a lot to the user experience.
That’s all. Thank you!
