Hi everyone,
I recently purchased (and am nearly finished assembling) a Rostock Max V2 printer. I have not yet reached any part involving software just yet. My office happens to have a FARO Focus 3D Scanner with FARO SCENE software. This large scanner scans entire rooms and vehicles for us. I was curious if anyone knows if the scans it takes are somehow able to be 3D printed with the Rostock Max V2. I have not read anything indicating it can be, nor have I read anything saying it cannot. To my understanding, SCENE stitches together .fls files to make large 3D scans of objects.
Thanks for any help you can give!
Faro Focus 3D Scanner
Re: Faro Focus 3D Scanner
Yes, I'm pretty sure you can get make it into a Stl file and the scale it down. I guy where I teach is scanning entire rooms and then scaling them down and printing on a a z corp 3d systems machine. Last time I scanned something large I ran the PlY file thru Meshlab and then saved as a stl.
Machines- Rostock Max v2 with E3D v6, Corsair 750 power supply, PEI bed,injection molded carriages and new arms. Aluminum mount. X carve with x controller. Stratasys Uprint SE
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soul_reaper_38
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Re: Faro Focus 3D Scanner
Oh that's good news. Guess I'll play around with the FARO SCENE software some more. I didn't see an option to export as an .stl, but I think it can export it to something AutoCAD can read, so maybe AutoCAD can export it as an .stl
Re: Faro Focus 3D Scanner
Actually, getting a printable surface out of SCENE is all but impossible. We have been using one for a few years now, and there is quite the involved process to make a printable file.
Go get Cloud Compare. This is free software for processing lidar scans data. You can load and register the raw FLS flies here, or import a ne57 file (which is how I do it). Once that file is ready you have to build normals (since SCENE doesn't use them at all), and once those are done just generate a Poisson surface from the point cloud. Export that and edit it in your favorite 3d modeling software to get what you want to print.
As an aside, we have been asking the software guys at Faro to implement a surfacing module for years. They keep asking why we want one. Apparently they don't quite understand why anyone would want a solid surface generated from scan data...
Go get Cloud Compare. This is free software for processing lidar scans data. You can load and register the raw FLS flies here, or import a ne57 file (which is how I do it). Once that file is ready you have to build normals (since SCENE doesn't use them at all), and once those are done just generate a Poisson surface from the point cloud. Export that and edit it in your favorite 3d modeling software to get what you want to print.
As an aside, we have been asking the software guys at Faro to implement a surfacing module for years. They keep asking why we want one. Apparently they don't quite understand why anyone would want a solid surface generated from scan data...
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Re: Faro Focus 3D Scanner
Do you mind elaborating on how this works? I have my Faro scan project in CloudCompare right now and I see the Poisson Surface Reconstruction plugin, but it is grayed out. I don't know what you mean by building normals.schlrobe wrote:Actually, getting a printable surface out of SCENE is all but impossible. We have been using one for a few years now, and there is quite the involved process to make a printable file.
Go get Cloud Compare. This is free software for processing lidar scans data. You can load and register the raw FLS flies here, or import a ne57 file (which is how I do it). Once that file is ready you have to build normals (since SCENE doesn't use them at all), and once those are done just generate a Poisson surface from the point cloud. Export that and edit it in your favorite 3d modeling software to get what you want to print.
As an aside, we have been asking the software guys at Faro to implement a surfacing module for years. They keep asking why we want one. Apparently they don't quite understand why anyone would want a solid surface generated from scan data...
Re: Faro Focus 3D Scanner
Normals (I think) means orienting the points in a unified direction. With both Computing Normals and Poisson Surface Reconstruction, you have to have the mesh or the Point Cloud selected. You can't perform the Poisson Surface Reconstruction without computing Normals first.soul_reaper_38 wrote:Do you mind elaborating on how this works? I have my Faro scan project in CloudCompare right now and I see the Poisson Surface Reconstruction plugin, but it is grayed out. I don't know what you mean by building normals.
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Yep! Java hit the nail on the head.
I usually have to hyper-sub sample my data sets to get the generate normals / poison surface stuff to function. We capture at high resolution (~.5mm at 10m which takes a lot of time let me tell ya) then sub sample down to around 1cm or less for surfacing. Really looses detail all around but LiDAR data isn't intended to be surfaced at all, so we take what we can get...
We are hoping that someone with a big brain can sort out surfacing 2-10 billion data points without using a super computer. Some of the cave sites we've scanned are enormous in both size (over a mile long) and in data captured. And for some reason the cave owners want a 3d print of them...
I usually have to hyper-sub sample my data sets to get the generate normals / poison surface stuff to function. We capture at high resolution (~.5mm at 10m which takes a lot of time let me tell ya) then sub sample down to around 1cm or less for surfacing. Really looses detail all around but LiDAR data isn't intended to be surfaced at all, so we take what we can get...
We are hoping that someone with a big brain can sort out surfacing 2-10 billion data points without using a super computer. Some of the cave sites we've scanned are enormous in both size (over a mile long) and in data captured. And for some reason the cave owners want a 3d print of them...