I used an Xbox kinect as a 3d scanner before, and the resolution of the 3d sensor is wayyyy too coarse-grained for anything really useful, unfortunately. It wo

I used an Xbox kinect as a 3d scanner before, and the resolution of the 3d sensor is wayyyy too coarse-grained for anything really useful, unfortunately. It works well for human-sized objects, but you can forget it for smaller things (it had trouble scanning my then-reference object: a beer can) That was a couple of years ago - maybe software has evolved enough to make it useable in the mean time.