I have taken the plunge and purchased a Nextengine. I will have it Tuesday. I also ordered a CPU to run it. The CPU is a 2.4 GHZ duel core, and will come with 4 GB of DDR2 Ram.

I will be posting scanned models if people are still interested.

Spoiledbrat
Iwould be interested.
This is what i was looking for some scanned models to see
the actual result not just on there web site.

Thanks Steve
If you want pm me AT
scromal at aol dot com

I would be interested in your results as well!

thanks,

Chris Robinson

This is interesting,, do scanning and touch probing render the same basic results?

how is the scanning coming on??? I too am interested in the results.

This is a scan from a 4.5" tall toy soldier.

I have exported it as a stl file, to open in rhino.

It should be noted that this is my second scan. The hardware (scanner) appears readily able to scan anything, I have more to learn about integrating the meshes into one mesh. I imagine that within a week or two, I will have better results.

I am having trouble uploading the 6 MB zip file (STL file, compressed). I will email it if someone will post it for me...

Rob

use WINZIP and convert it to a *.zip file then upload it with the name_Type of file.ZIp ie soldier_Stl.zip (this way all will se if it needs to be converted ETC...)

Salty

Salty,

I am having no problems zipping the file, just upload problems. I can definately email it to someone.

Rob

This is a scan from a 4.5" tall toy soldier.

I have exported it as a stl file, to open in rhino.

It should be noted that this is my second scan. The hardware (scanner) appears readily able to scan anything, I have more to learn about integrating the meshes into one mesh. I imagine that within a week or two, I will have better results.

How many points did you scan into the cloud and what resolution??

Salty,

I am having no problems zipping the file, just upload problems. I can definately email it to someone.

Rob


You can e-mail it to me and I will try and post it for you.

spoiledbrat

The upload keeps failing I think it is to do with the forum I would suggest you contact the forum administrator.

Maybe you could just have another site host the file for free, http://www.filefactory.com/ ?

Then just post a link to the file from here.

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I could also try posting for you salty(at)tsn(dot)cc

Heres the link to the file

http://www.filefactory.com/file/614eda/

Well? Any comments?

I think it does quite well for what it is. Money well spent, if you ask me.

Cheers

We also have the next engine scanner and are happy with it.

Here is a lion we scanned.

We imported the STL directly into MeshCAM for the G-code.

Is that foam that you carved? How large is that block?

Are you using this to make silicone female molds?

Looks very interesting. Good work.

It is made of Indiana limestone, 28" x 20" x 11".

The small lion is plaster.

No we do not make molds.

Cutting limestone seems like an impressive feat! What kind of tooling did you use, and how long did it take?

Thanks,

Rob

We use diamond tooling.
http://www.coldspringgranite.com/dmndwrt1.html

We also use carbide tooling for finish work.

This pc. took about 3 hrs., we still have to finish the other side.

Wow! That's nice!

Hope they're going in front of a library :)