The scanning with MetroX and latest software went very smoothly, almost 60fps and this took maybe 20min.
Just wish there wasn’t so much noise.
So I ran fusion and it cleaned it up nicely
The trigger didn’t scan nicely as it was anodized aluminum and is a bit shiny. I tried it w/ a separate scan, but struggled. Didn’t really need it for what I was doing so I moved on.
Magazine shell
A little ragged on that little turnback edge, but again, for my purposes, it was good enough.
Baseplate
Nice!
Then on to design. I didn’t do a full reverse engineering on this as I was able to capture the intent with cross sections
I wanted a dummy so I could have someone make a holster so I went back into mesh, made it watertight and sent it to the printer (while I was designing), this is the result. Turned out nicely. The Grip surface is like 80grit sandpaper and MetroX captured it well.
On to the final product.
not only does it help keep the pinky finger fully supported, but helps with printing too since the edge is a bit softer.
Total time. Scan: 2hrs. RE&CAD:6hrs. Then print and test. First I made it from PLA just to get a feel for how it worked and it felt perfect. Then I did drop testing and the PLA broke, so I remade it in much stronger material and tweaked a couple dimensions, printed again. This time no problems.
Total time from start to finish including a trip to the range to test was 24hrs, and then another overnight to print a bunch of them for all mags.
I have a new product, thank you MetroX and Revopoint for making drastic improvements in the software over the last 10 months and your lightning fast support when I had a hardware issue. You have done a really good job and I look forward to the future.
