3D Scanner Review - CR-Scan Ferret Pro!

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Alan Reiner

Күн бұрын

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@javiles2331 Жыл бұрын

I love what you did with the scan camera “holder”, I would love to see a video showing how you did it.

@Byzmax Жыл бұрын

That was a great review. No nonsense, clear , considered and honest. You have a new subscriber

@torenr 9 ай бұрын

You got yourself a new subscriber. Good and honest review. I wish more reviews were like this. Are your 3D files available online?

@LaserEngraving911 4 ай бұрын

Great video, lots of great info, just got mine and wanted to watch some information before I open the box on what I’m about to get into this video was very helpful. You got a new subscriber.

@larrythehedgehog Жыл бұрын

Honestly I think this thing is more for complex geometry. Which is why id want a 3d scanner in the first place. Simple objects I could just bust out my calipers for. Thanks for the video!

@ObsessiveEngineering Жыл бұрын

I don't fully agree. I don't need to scan a peanut butter jar, but the reason it fails is the same reason I kept getting false tracks when scanning my angle grinder. Even highly irregular objects could have features that throw off tracking when you get too close. That said, markers are a totally reasonable solution that should resolve this if I could get it working. I suspect I will figure it out, or Creality will release an update that tracks them properly.

@Alkhymia 10 ай бұрын

Nice review, detailed and honest!, its posible share the turntable? thanks!

@mrnlce7939 Жыл бұрын

I think you're supposed to scan the flat surface first then put the object on the turn table/ table top. You could try putting markers on the turn table (in a random pattern) to help with the harder to scan objects. Love the jig by the way. Great video. Keep up the good work.

@rimmerd9908 3 ай бұрын

That def deserved a Sub. I'd like to watch you re-visit the scanner now and reflect on how firmware and software may have advanced, or maybe regressed.

@jbwalker841 Жыл бұрын

I work in thr manufacturing industry and I deal with a lot of manufacturers and distributors of machine tools, CMMs, scanners, etc. From what i understand, the scanners themselves arent really that different, better/worse. Etc. What you are paying for is the software and thats where the major quality/performance differences lie. This may be more related to industrial grade scanners, but im sure it applies to consumer grade scanners to some degree.

@howegav 5 ай бұрын

An honest helpful review. Thank Like 👍🏻 and subscribed. Look forward to viewing more reviews etc.

@Traqr 11 ай бұрын

Some of the tracking issues could be mitigated by reprinting your turntable. A matte finish could eliminate the textural moiré effect visible in some of your shots, but the bigger fix would be to make it clear to the scanner what orientation the table is in either by embossing a pattern in the surface or by adding an asymmetric border to key off the edge. Just make sure the map is detailed enough to provide consistent tracking while also being fully determinate (ie. no part looks enough like another part to confuse the software), like a fiducial marker.

@admintmilgart8585 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video mate.... Thats a cool little turntable rig you have there in the background. Is it home made diy, or is there some STL's on thingiverse on this one. I would like to build one too ☺

@vividconfusion404 4 ай бұрын

Super helpful, thank you 🙏

@YogeshPatel9 11 ай бұрын

Might be your beta version, but try texture mode to improve tracking on more regular looking objects

@juxnxtreme 7 ай бұрын

This is one of the greatest reviews I've seen. Thank you! Also I'll appreciate if you could give me a couple of recommendations for mesh mixer tutorials or channels to follow. Thanks again

@cpace123 Жыл бұрын

I would also add. If you have and old web cam. It also makes a fair web cam. You just have to disable the RGB and IR cameras in device manager. Then it can be used as a web cam

@valentinkrajzelman4649 9 ай бұрын

lmao didnt thought of that

@cpace123 Жыл бұрын

I got his mainly for scanning heads. And it works pretty good. Better then my Photogrammetry results. I am satisfied, but am still tweaking it. I hope future firmware updates will make it even better.

@ObsessiveEngineering Жыл бұрын

Did you get it working with hair? I tried so many times, and I was extremely satisfied with the face scan part but couldn't get the hair for my life. I just started playing with Meshroom (photogrammetry) and I'm very impressed with it. But feels like it's a different use case. You don't need a special camera, but you do need a beefy computer/GPU, and the software is pretty complicated. Also, you can't use a turntable with it since it uses the background for camera position estimation.

@Petricius Жыл бұрын

I also played around with photogrammetry and meshroom. It took me several hours (2 days) to get the best result. You can see the result in this video:kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXuYg2iwgZdqjLs. So I am going to get a 3d scanner, thanks for your video.

@corwin.macleod 10 ай бұрын

@@ObsessiveEngineering You can and should use a turn table for photogrammetry. It's just that Meshroom devs to this day still didn't implement a masking functionality for the background, so you should preprocess your images beforehand by replacing the background with black color in some other software. I've seen people using pitch black background for turntable surface, but they still have to postprocess the result. Agisoft has masking for this since like forever, although it's not free.

@missilpeludo8813 9 ай бұрын

Really good review ! I just got one a week ago and “for me” it’s giving a hard time! I’ll keeping play with this new toy! It’s very interesting

@GregMasterson-n2i 5 ай бұрын

Well i'm hooked so much so i went a bought one to play with. Hoping it will help me with designing parts for my trikes i have, it's the little touches that make it worth while. Very impressed with the turntable setup would be interested in it for a couple of smaller pieces i need to do. You said you designed it do you sell the files or can i get them from somewhere. I have a very old turn table like 10 yrs i think but doesn't work properly anymore. any help would be great like i said love your work. .

@Pickles_The_Wise Жыл бұрын

Excellent review! is the turntable available anywhere? happily donate some beer tokens for it :)

@paulgreenwood4993 3 ай бұрын

Any chance of being pointed in the right direction for one of the 2 axis tables ? Or files to print the arm etc. I thinks it's awesome! Great informative video . Thanks .

@christianrobertadzic9321 Жыл бұрын

Hi! I really enjoyed your review, you made it so clean and easy to follow. I'm interested in your turn table design. Do you have posted maybe a DIY kit or dome info how you made it? I wish to make for me also a kind of turn table too. I'm also a newcomer in this 3D world. 🙂 Thanks for the review and I'm waiting for more videos from you. BTW. Have a nice New Year!

@stevenadinolfisr9820 6 ай бұрын

I watched to the wireless in use. I do like the video but I need to see how it works with a phone.

@bobjohnson9687 3 ай бұрын

Marker dots would have helped scan your angle grinder.

@karianttonen8699 9 ай бұрын

Great review. Answered my questions about this scanner. I would like to know what meshmixer tutorial you found useful?

@PJgearhead 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for review. I want to scan a large rocker cover with the Ferret. Reckon this scanner would be up to it with good dimensional accuracy?

@newmonengineering Ай бұрын

I know this is an older video and I also know they have updated their software. Do you still own the scanner? And if so have you learned how to get better scans now? Also I have seen people putting the indicator circles directly on the turn table as referance while it is turning. Have you tried that to see if it helps? Thanks

@ObsessiveEngineering Ай бұрын

I haven't used it recently, but I did about 6 months after making this video and was pleasantly surprised at the improved software. I can't remember what it was exactly, but I definitely has a better time with it. I didn't put tracking markers on the turn table, but used pieces of crumpled masking tape on the rotationally-invariant objects, where I didn't need the model to be highly accurate. It worked really well!

@DailyFrankPeter Жыл бұрын

Knowing how every maker tried or wanted to make a jig like that at some point, you could probably walk into a home depot, scan a lot of power tools and make a killing selling those scans ;)

@ObsessiveEngineering Жыл бұрын

Hah, good point. If I updated the turntable to work from above, so I could hang the tools to spin them, I think it would be a pretty reliable process. Most of these tools have enough irregular features that it would work well.

@richard_westerlaken 8 ай бұрын

Hi, I recently purchased cr scanner ferret se, I want to connect it to my Android phone, what do I need to do so, I succeed to connect with the extra USB adapter but when I start to scan, it disconnects. I think it is missing adaptieve power. Please help.

@ObsessiveEngineering 8 ай бұрын

It's been a while since I used it (and dont have it with me) but I'm pretty sure there is a separate power cord for the scanner. The phone alone cannot provide enough power to run the scanner. If you have the same version as me, it comes with a tripod that has a built-in rechargeable battery that can charge your phone and power the scanner at the same time. The instructions show the different wiring setups

@Thayes1979 Жыл бұрын

Love mine but there is a learning curve. For the grinder I would have tried to do multiple scans and then combine them. I recently scanned my milling machine head in multiple scans and the software combined them perfectly. My question is where can I get your turn table build?

@ObsessiveEngineering Жыл бұрын

How do you combine multiple scans? What software? I kinda botched my turntable, by assuming that a 28BYJ-48 motor would be able to turn the table directly (with no gear reduction). It's really not a good design and it just barely pulled off what I did in this video. However, I could provide the curved rack and pinion design, which worked quite well, besides having to overcomplicate it with a brake so it doesn't fall and slam into the table when the power is cut 😅. I'll have to clean it up and post it on Printables. Note however that the rack is printed in a single piece which is too big for most printers. I designed it for my 400x400mm build plate.

@Thayes1979 Жыл бұрын

@@ObsessiveEngineeringI use the Creality software for this scanner and the process is called multi board project. I will say that this did not work for me until I updated to the latest version 2.3.5 release on 12/21. I also think the reason it worked for this project is the fact there are a lot of detail or it to align.

@AG-en5y 3 ай бұрын

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@poetasdolobs7347 9 ай бұрын

New subscriber here, excellent videos. Question have you tried scanning bigger models like a room or the car indoors? Thx!

@ObsessiveEngineering 9 ай бұрын

I have not. I read that it should handle line 2m^3 scale, but I didn't try anything that big. I considered trying a car dashboard or something but I clearly had enough on my plate for this review 😅

@qwer55555555 6 ай бұрын

hey, are you still using this thing? how is software? better/worse/same? How do you compare this to iPhone

@_Spider2077 9 ай бұрын

put markers on the turntable as well it needs minimum 4 markers to work

@alfainc5868 7 ай бұрын

Any update?

@mpcaz Жыл бұрын

Can you tell me where you got the files for the Cutoff tool jig or did you design it? are the .3mf or .stl files available to buy? Great review and now i"m thinking of getting a CR-Scan Ferret Pro.

@ObsessiveEngineering Жыл бұрын

This is the model I started with. I'm sure it works fine for the specified grinder: www.thingiverse.com/thing:5352350

@paulgreenwood4993 3 ай бұрын

Any chance of being pointed in the right direction for one of the 2 axis tables ? Or files to print the arm etc. I thinks it's awesome! Great informative video . Thanks !

@javiles2331 Жыл бұрын

I would like to see if you can scan a entire body… I can’t it’s frustrating

@hashemotoMan 10 ай бұрын

is there is any software using limitation for dealing with modelling ?

@ObsessiveEngineering 10 ай бұрын

I do not believe there is any license restrictions on using the scanned models (if that's what you're asking). I couldn't find a clear answer on their website or documentation, and if they did have restrictions I feel like they would be highlighted and easy to find.

@mrdummy_nl Ай бұрын

Should put some scan marks on turnable. When everything looks almost same.... yeah we all know what will happens. You need help the computer, because they're often dumb. Add more help marks so they can see difference.

@Todestelzer 7 ай бұрын

You can’t measure a 3d print to see the accuracy of a 3d scanner. 3d printing has around 0.2mm tolerance and the material will shrink depending on the geometry too.

@ObsessiveEngineering 7 ай бұрын

You're right that there is additional error introduced by the printing process, on top of model error. It's possible that the error in the model was actually slightly more or slightly less than what I measured. However, I have calibrated that printer pretty rigorously, and I know it prints approx within 0.1-0.2mm of what I design. Even at max printing error, I think that the results I measured are still very favorable for this budget 3d scanner. I also know to scale up to 100.5% when printing with ABS, but I generally don't need model scaling with PLA or PETG. So, you're not wrong, I'm just on top of that, because I built that printer myself and gone to great lengths to figure out it's tolerances. Thanks for watching!

@Todestelzer 7 ай бұрын

@@ObsessiveEngineering you can use tools like cloud compare to measure a distance on a cloud point.

@sgfx 3 ай бұрын

Fusion 360 isn’t the best tool for working with mesh 3D objects-it’s like trying to do woodworking with an arc welder: two completely different world. A free program like Blender 3D is much better suited for handling 3D meshes, as it can process millions of polygons without issues. In fact, using Boolean cuts or other mesh tools in Blender could have easily solved your tool-fitting issue. As for the turntable, the textured surface can interfere with the scanning process, (it see it like static) so it's better to apply the tracking dots to the table and sometimes directly onto the object. Unique silhouettes are crucial for scanning; objects that have distinctive shapes from various angles work best. So, items like cans or peanut butter jars are not ideal. The image is largely irrelevant in the process-the color information is just applied to the object’s surface. While color is there to enhances the appearance of the object for images or animations, even top-quality game assets look very low resolution once the color is removed.