I have just come off a one-to-one support session with Leann at Revopoint and it was brilliant.
She answered a lot of my questions and I’ve managed at long last to get a good scan of a small engine part that had been defeating me for days. The success might have been down to her help or it might have been down to the latest version of the Revoscan software I got from the forum link.
Whatever it was, I’m making progress.
From what I learned today I think you hit the nail on the head when you said you used feature mode to scan the miniatures. Feature mode is great for artistic, detail rich objects. My car part was black in some places, shiny in others and had flat, featureless sides. As a result I needed to spray it and scan it from high enough up and far enough away for the scanner to ‘see’ enough tracking markers.
thats awesome, glad you are making progress.
Spraying the part you want to scan is very important, even on some of my clay sculptures with lots of tracking feature I sprayed it with a zinc oxide / denatured alchohol mix, it made the scans so much cleaner. There was a recent video as well showing tracking working better when the part was laid down on a rocky / textured surface.
The thing with the mini its designed for small’ish objects, scanning large parts in hand held mode can work, but will take practice I feel.
I’m waiting for the hand held stabliser to arrive before I attempt hand scanning.
Well, it’s probably less exciting than it sounds. I was just looking for something small to practice scanning with and the temperature sensor had a shiny metal bit, corroded metal bit, a rubber O ring and four, featureless flat black sides. I figured if I could scan that, I’d be making progress.
Updated to the latest version of revoscan, the auto gain seems to help when scanning on a turntable, a great update.
Here is a little 20cm clay sculpture scanned and processed in revoscan, single pass, high accuracy feature mode with auto gain.
