5. 3D printing & Scanning¶
3D printing¶
This week, we had an individual assignment of creating our own design and printing it.
I had a 3D bag that I really like and I wanted to re-create it. My main intention of creating it was mostly because I was always curious about the process behind it and the steps it takes to create such a beautiful masterpiece, and to see how it would turn out when I start making it from scratch.
The design was made of two seperated pieces that are concatenated; the base, which is the bag itself, and the handle of the bag.
Starting off, I started to create the design using Fusion360. I created my base and extruded it into the height I wanted.
Then, to create my second piece (the handle), I created the shape which is the arch, and made the ends pointed.
After finalizing my design and making it as close as I can to the original piece, I sliced the file and made sure everything was fine and printed it using the Creality printer.
Result¶
The bag turned out so much smaller than the original piece, it was tiny, but I still liked the final product, it looked like the inspo but smaller.
3D scanning¶
Skanect for Scanning
Skanect is a scanning software that generates 3D scans of objects using a PrimeSense-based infrared 3D sensor such as the Microsft Kinect for XBOX, the PrimeSense Carmine, and the Structure 3D Sensor. In this experiment, we used it to scan ourselves, and here are the steps done to do it:
- Go to New > Body > Start
- After clicking Start, you get a view of the person/object standing in front of the scanner
- After the scanning was compelete, there was a hole in the head so we had to fix it, to fix it: Process > Fill Holes > Run
Watertight > Smoothing > Run
Finally, after filling the holes, the hole was gone, and the final scan turned out perfect.
- The last thing to do was Exporting the file as STL
