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Can someone tell us what the relevant metrics are in this space? Capture time? Accuracy? How is accuracy measured?
by iandanforth 13y ago
Can someone tell us what the relevant metrics are in this space? Capture time? Accuracy? How is accuracy measured?
- blt 13y agoAccuracy is measured in distance - a bound on the maximum distance from any scanned point to the true surface. Manufacturer accuracy ratings should be taken with many grains of salt. Makerbot is claiming +/- 2mm. In comparison, high-end laser scanners claim accuracy in the tens of microns, 50-100x better than MakerBot. 12 minutes is a slow capture time for small parts like that. $1400 is cheaper than any good 3D scanner on the market, by far. The only competition is a Kinect, which costs much less but doesn't have enough detail for small parts yet.
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- snarfy 13y agoHmm, I wonder if a LeapMotion device could do it. It's more accurate than a Kinect.
- kitcar 13y agoTotally different technology - motion sensing does not = high resolution object capturing
- slashdotaccount 13y ago$1400 is cheaper than any good scanner on the market, true. But this is not a good scanner. This is a hobbyist-class scanner like the ~1100USD CADscan (http://cad-scan.co.uk/ http://cad-scan.co.uk/) and the 599USD Matterform Photon (http://www.matterform.net/ http://www.matterform.net/). These and the Makerbot product share essentially the same technology. The next level up from this would be something like NextEngine (>3000USD to get going): http://www.nextengine.com/ http://www.nextengine.com/.