I've been waiting for this series for ages now! As a beginner that bought a scanner and a printer with 0 cad nor 3d modeling this is a lifeline, I'm so excited!

Complex and fantastic! I look forward to more special aerospace modelling. Congratulations Mango!

Very powerful WB. Impressed with it. Thanks for sharing.

I just paid for a Kiri Engine pro subscription for the year. I'm going to maka a LOT of use of this in the coming year. Thanks!

Yes! More workflows for 3dscans/meshes! Car parts would be more interesting and more people could refer than to aeroplanes :P

Please more teaching from scan to model, from stl to model, etc

Thank you! I never really knew that freecad is that good with meshes, definitely a lot better than my playing around with meshmixer

Definitely waiting for next one now, my otter just arrived and wanna get to work😊

This are exactly the tutorials i need!! I have recently been able to get a few airplane models of mine 3d scanned. Because i want to make these models bigger and eventually make RC vehicle out of them (not the original produced model) but there is a lot of stuff that need cleaning and i may end up completely rescanning them. But this will certainly help me get the information i need out of the scans to continue with that project.

Meshlab (also platform independent, open source tool) really improved a lot from the borderline useless sluggish nightmare it was not long ago, into a quite well optimized, snappy and handy tool, might worth checking out a recent release for more involved mesh / point cloud wizardry. It has a weird workflow logic, like no undo/redo utility, instead you have to duplicate layers you might want to revert to, also weird mouse control behavior, but one can adapt to it, and it all starts to make sense after a while. Don't take me wrong, the FreeCAD Mesh workbench is a wonderful take on the subject, but if I'd be dealing with these sort of issues on a daily basis, I would definitely aim for the tool specifically targeted on this extremely complex set of problems.

Regarding the cutting off of that rear portion of the scan, to get the part to be sat on a plane. Maybe I'm confused (easy done LOL), but haven't you just lost part of the actual component by doing it the way you did? Assuming that the original nose cone was successfully (carefully therefore) removed from the aircraft and was complete, it will (presumably) have a straight rear edge where it mates to the rest of the fuselage. Assuming (again) that the part was then sat on a level surface for scanning and any extraneous data from that scan digitally removed (such as the table it was sat on), isn't that edge the true rear of the part? That being the case, isn't that rear edge the reference edge and thus the plane needs to be set against that edge (so that the component is level and vertical), rather than what seems like taking the scan and slicing off some material at the back, seemingly at some arbitrary point? As I say, I'm probably confused or missing something here, so I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.

File is huge and missing part of cone. Think there are 3d mechanical probes for collecting points in space. Sometimes good start simple or roughed-in see what surprises pop up.

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Hello sir, want to ask, i've been creating some object. It's curvy. And i tried to unwrap it in mesh workbench , or make it to 2d shape in draft workbench. But it not ended with the right length as it supposed in 3D model. How am i supposed to do sir? i need it to be in 2d because i want to laser cutting the objet sir.