Does anyone have suggestions for sharpening edges and cirners in a scan? Scan us of a very but detailed part. 3 cm x 2 cm, done with a mini 2. Goal us to half the size and 3d print the part. I know the best way us to just rebuild the part in quicksurface or another 3d app. Just wanted to check first. Thanks.
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I would never manipulate original scan because of triangles it could looks bad after.
Best rebuild the base in quads, subdivide and then project details and then work on the edges and the rest.
It is 3 x 2 cm ? That’s a lot of details on such small scan . Very good job 
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The old Studio app had a sharpen feature, but I don’t know that it did much for me (I was super new when Studio was around). Maybe it used a known technique/algorithm.
I wanted to echo that at 3cm x 2cm that is an amazing scan.
Thanks but a small correction, the scan is teally 9 cm X 7 cm. Still a fairly good scan. I’m seeing a lot of 3D AI modeling programs show up now. Having an AI that could rebuild a scanned model would be useful.
That’s true , but the results was not always desired, with triangulated model sharpening can just induce bad surfaces overall .
Zbrush has sharpening ( contrast ) function but it only works well on quads and not for all situations as this can change the accuracy and dimension.
Let me know if you find any good , the one I tried are not yet to my expectation , maybe for someone that can’t do nothing but for advanced modelers they are still just a gimmick in a very early stage.
Use Blender or Zbrush , remesh the scan to quads , subdivide and project the fine details , it will give you free hand to edit it as you want.
Geomagic pretty much owns this Reverse Engineering market. Top tier program, but standalone is ~$20k.
I use DezignWorks for Solidworks and it does a good job too. Still expensive, but not as much as Geomagic.
None of these are automated processes. You have to create each feature you want in the program, the programs give you tools to do this, some tools are better than others, DezignWorks seems to have captured the bang for the buck market.