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freebeard · 10-08-2018, 03:23 AM

What's your plan? Just a heads-up?

The Mooncraft article is only about capture. seifrob points out an alternative, but looking for a link I see that 123D Catch is gone no longer supported.

It only obtains a dense polygon mesh. The Makerworks CAD/CAM toolchain graph (dating to 2015) shows their scanner outputting to an STL file. That's a tool-path.

Depending on what you want to do, a box modeler or parametric modeler might be appropriate.

If you want CFD, and you know you do, then look into Open VDB. It's supported in Blender, which will do animations.

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freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 28,941 Thanks: 8,217 Thanked 8,988 Times in 7,425 Posts	What's your plan? Just a heads-up? The Mooncraft article is only about capture. seifrob points out an alternative, but looking for a link I see that 123D Catch is gone no longer supported. It only obtains a dense polygon mesh. The Makerworks CAD/CAM toolchain graph (dating to 2015) shows their scanner outputting to an STL file. That's a tool-path. Depending on what you want to do, a box modeler or parametric modeler might be appropriate. If you want CFD, and you know you do, then look into Open VDB. It's supported in Blender, which will do animations. __________________ . .Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster ________________ . .Because much of what is in the published literature is nonsense, and much of what isn’t nonsense is not in the scientific literature. -- Sabine Hossenfelder