[Hervé]

mmmm.. not sure.. I tried Graphite, but it crashes all the time.. no luck.. any advice Eric..?

[Eric Lagman]

mmmm.. not sure.. I tried Graphite, but it crashes all the time.. no luck.. any advice Eric..?

It crashes on me if I go off and try to explore the program, but for just getting a quad mesh it works fine for me. I just followed the steps in the wiki tutorial and use the same steps on any model and it works pretty good. Its a very incomplete piece of software and all the settings are very vague. http://alice.loria.fr/WIKI/index.php/Graphite/PGP

[Hervé]

ahhh ok.. all good Eric.. I thought it carshed.. but it was still working.. cool program.. INRIA Rocks..

[Maximus3D]

Pretty impressive results considering the lowcost setup

Here's another more manual approach that some might find useful for quick concepting of stuff.
http://www.sturningsoftware.com/news.html

/ Max

[Eric Lagman]

ahhh ok.. all good Eric.. I thought it carshed.. but it was still working.. cool program.. INRIA Rocks..

I think if you hit apply between each step the dialog box just sits there. I just hit ok button between each step and it works fine. Programs that have ok and apply in the same window need help with their gui terminology.

[Hervé]

cool... apart of a couple glitches, ... impressive program.. considering it's free.. !

Thanks Eric..

Max.. what the... hehe.. strange link you got here..

[Leonardo]

Just wanted an update.... Any new software similar DAVID laserscanner?

I might give it a try...

[Hervé]

there is that cute one...

http://www.picoscan.eu/index.php?action ... 13&lang=EN

[Leonardo]

the price is not that pico!

how about if you have your own camera already?

[Hervé]

well yes the Pico is Maxo price... eeheh..

But I don't think you can buy it without Cam... although maybe e-mail them and ask... maybe...

[Leonardo]

well yes the Pico is Maxo price... eeheh..

Pico design (x10^-12) but Tera price (x10^12)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico-

[wagurto]

Interesting topic. Do you think would it be possible to convert one of these 3d meshes to NURBS using these?
http://www.npowersoftware.com/subdtonurbsoverview.htm
It will be great to scan object and the modify them using NURBs

[Eric Lagman]

The scan will come in as a heavy triangle mesh. Convering to quads is what you would need to do first. For that you would need to retopologize the mesh using something like z brush, 3d coat or graphite that we discussed earlier. From there you could run it through the n power convertor or rhino t splines plugin.

Programs like geomagic or rapidform can skip the quad conversion and build nurbs patches right over the triangle mesh. Those are spendy apps though.

Unfortunately there is no one button software that gives a perfect result without some work. Im sure in the future though this type of stuff will be more automated and less labor intensive.