You are a real master of 3d scanning! It's such a fantastic idea to construct such objects to add additional surface for better alignment. Keep on your excellent videos!

Love all these videos mate. What you're doing for the community is great!! What's your opinion on this Scanner versus an Einstar 3D?

Hi Payo, I'm having trouble with getting a scan into a usable form in Fusion 360. The scan is 2 bodies that I need to capture their spatial relationship so I can design around them. The scan also only has the faces that I need and not the back sides. When I insert the stl file into Fusion I cannot repair it in the mesh panel because Fusion 360 has too much to process and it takes forever and never completes. Also if I try in Creality Scan to fix holes, it takes away contours and detail that I need. Do I need to use another program to clean it up or am I doing something wrong in Fusion?

What a legend! Thanks and may I say to these 'bloggers' advertising the scanners: 'fk you for pretending to make it look so easy'

Hi, So what joystick do you use to work on Blender? By the way, thanks for your videos, because I'm having a hell of a time testing the Otter I was sent, and small parts are extremely difficult to scan. I practise every day, but the targets escape or don't appear at all. For example, I tested a poker chip - it's not as small as all that - that I'd placed high up on a bottle. Well, the scanner could see the bottle, but not the chip, which was red and white and matt. I don't understand this thing. As for the coins, the only one I managed to scan, the result was totally useless, no precision at all, despite what Créality says. I really don't know whether I'm doing something wrong or whether the device really isn't up to the job. What surprises me the most is that even when you scan an absolutely smooth surface, you still end up with a weird texture, like on your spanner, whereas the Raptor does this much less. Is there a solution to correct this without necessarily using Blender? In any case, thanks for your answers if you have time to reply.

Great video. I assume you are using geometry feature mode because it gives you a higher resolution mesh when scanning. As apposed to using marker mode that gave you a lower resolution mesh? Going by your previous videos. Am I correct in saying this object is a perfect candidate for the Raptors laser scanning? Also when performing the subtractive Boolean in blender, you could cut off the majority (80%) of the objects mesh, before performing the subtractive Boolean. That way the polygon count would be vastly lower prior to the Boolean calculation. As always your videos a very interesting and inspirational.

These videos are really wonderful thanks for sharing! I'm having a very hard time choosing between the otter and raptor. I intend to scan mostly objects of similar size to what you did in this video. Power tools (drills, impact guns, IR Temp gun, etc) and hand tools (digital calipers, micrometer, tape measures, hammers, screwdrivers, etc.). My goal is to organize my workshop by 3d printing custom gridfinity holders for all of my smaller tools after scanning them exactly as @PhilVandelay on youtube did in his most recent video "How to 3D Print Custom Tool Organizers for ANYTHING!" In your opinion which one of these scanners would be the easiest to use with this in mind? I don’t believe I need absolute accuracy as the holders will have a small amount of extra gap to account for error and to make the tools easier to extract. Thanks for any input!

Hey Payo my Otter master. Currently I have some parts that keep to eat my RAM. The part is roughly 300x200x100mm and I scan it in small mode with trackers. I even upgraded to 64GB and it still runs out of RAM. Do you have similar experience when creating the dense cloud? How much RAM has your beefy 4090 machine? Btw. When building dense cloud I always use maximum resolution (0.05) because the parts I do are for reverse engineering (metrology). Have you made any experiences in regards to dimension deviation when choosing a lower resolution (example: 0.2 instead of 0.05) ?

how detailed can those scans be?

Hi! I have the otter but i am having trouble using it with an active usb3 5 meter extension cable, in the creality scan software it shows as having a usb2 connection but its getting enough power over just that cable, fps while scanning is around 11-12 which is what i get with other usb2 cables, if i plug the scanner in with its own cable directly into the computer i get 30 fps.Have you tried using extension cables?Have you had any success? The 2 meter cable with the otter is not enough i feel for confortable scanning with my desktop, any thoughts?