Figured I’d do a Showcase.
I come from the engineering world, I’m a wiz at CAD and all it entails, been doing reverse engineering a decade or more, and have a few years of using a buddy’s Einscan HX and now the MetroX. Been around high end scanners about a decade. Also do a bunch of 3D printing.
1st scan w/ the MetroX, DJI’s Remote Controller 2, used AutoTurntable feature, sprayed the black parts w/ AESUB Blue and let it rip.
2nd scan was a .308 bullet. Tricky in the shiny brass and copper. Ended up in Autoturntable mode again and sprayed the whole thing with Blue.
This is cross laser shiny metal mode and as you can see it’s pretty unusable.
then I did an RC piston and rod. It’s ~Ø19mm and proved beyond the abilities of the HX. The MetroX did it fine, global marker tracking full field mode.
On to the sleeve for the same engine, my logs say cross line with shiny and global markers, I think I remember spraying it with the Blue, not sure. I don’t know why it’s in shiny mode if I sprayed it.
A FLIR was somewhere along the way too. Matte black and I did NOT spray it. Cross line laser in black mode w/ global markers.
Then there’s this part. It’s shiny machined surface. I spent 2 days trying to perfect this scan and all but failed.
Best results were in full field mode, sprayed with Blue and let the turntable rip. A lot of problems with Merge on this model as was on the .308 bullet.
My last one for this thread is a SightMark RedDot. It’s more of a shiny black than the FLIR is. I had zero luck processing this w/o spray. Sprayed it, put it in full field mode and feature recognition and let it spin.
That’s all for now.
*Feature recognition seems a big sensitive to scanner movement, keep the scanner still and it does pretty good. I’m using a spring arm desk mount for the scanner so it’s pretty still yet moves when I need it to.
*Cross line laser is difficult. I am not having great luck with this mode, Full field just looks so much better. It leaves it’s mark too, I can tell by looking at a scan if it’s crossline. Maybe this will get better with updated software.
*The merge feature needs some work. I’d say that’s where the worst of the defects in final product show, just not getting a good alignment when putting 2+ scans together where there’s overlapping areas.
*it’s slow changing modes and there’s a lot of PC performance left untapped (it’s rarely using a lot of CPU or GPU)
Overall, for just out of the gate it’s pretty impressive for a $1k scanner to do this. No, it’s not a $30k Simscan or a $50k Leo (I’ve used it, my buddy has one), but even that scanner can’t make some of this easy. Yea, I wish I were in a position to buy the Simscan, but I’d say the MetroX is $1k well spent and ought to let me get the job done.
