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3D prints from a 2D flatbed scanner?
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:04 pm
by Sloth
I often find that I need to make flanges. I would love to just scan the flange in on my flatbed scanner and then play with it in SketchUp. I can't figure out the best way of doing this. Has anyone else had some good luck? It appears I might need to do a lot of clean up on the images.
Re: 3D prints from a 2D flatbed scanner?
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:24 pm
by redoverred
Might be best to get a set of cheap calipers and just measure it out, unless it's a very complicated part.
Re: 3D prints from a 2D flatbed scanner?
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 10:37 pm
by teoman
the proper quickie reverse engineering way of doing it is take the scan or picture and then one measurement.
Open it up in autocad and enlarge the image untill your measured distance is the same in autocad. Then trace whatever you need on the image and finally remove the image.
Re: 3D prints from a 2D flatbed scanner?
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:53 am
by Jimustanguitar
Cura lets you extrude an image file (pad, for your FreeCAD users). I haven't done this for myself, but if you could prep the image correctly (remove the background, I assume) you can scale in Cura too...
There's definitely a more accurate way to do it, but for guesstimation work Cura might be a one stop shop.