3DMakerPro Lynx Unboxing and First Scan

3Dmakerpro was kind enough to send me this Lynx scanner to review and put through it's paces. In this video, I unbox and do my first scan in real time.
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[@LnJCanadianRC]

Awesome! Thanks for this video. This helped take away the overwhelming feeling on how to use my new Mole scanner. Very easy to understand and follow.

[@Black240SXDrift]

Glad I could help!

[@nightngale49]

Love your intro!! This was a very informative video, too. I really appreciate all of the details you went into. This is a really cool scanner, and it's pretty affordable!! I'm excited to see more videos from you about this specific scanner!

[@Black240SXDrift]

Running a week late because I had to get my shop cleaned up for the next scan, but should have another video up this Saturday!

[@dantekman]

Excellent video - very informative, Thank you!

[@Black240SXDrift]

Thank you!

[@JoeKind1958]

Fantastic video 👍😁. It's so refreshing to see a video where a pro gives his opinion on a scanner rather than a beginners opinion. Many beginners tend to trash a product simply because they cant figure something out due to a lack of understanding. Then of course the product is junk in their eyes. Thanks for this video. You have a new subscriber 😀.

[@Black240SXDrift]

Glad you liked it! Welcome to my channel! I'll be posting more cool stuff soon!

[@67mustangcouperestoration]

Thanks for mentioning the GOM Inspect. I’ll have to check it one out. It looks easier to use for scan editing than Solidworks. My Lynx loses tracking pretty frequently, but I’ve been trying to use it for larger scans, where using the turntable isn’t possible. I’m thinking that I may need to try to scan smaller areas (with considerable overlapping regions) and let the system align the scans. Hopefully that works, because it can be a bit frustrating.

[@Black240SXDrift]

Yes gom indirect is great. And if you move slowly and have geometry to fit to it should work out. Also if it's very flat and featureless you can add geometry you remove in post processing

[@New_World_Disorder]

Nice review and tutorial. I just had an ad for this scanner show up on my feed and was curious about it. Are you going to try scanning a larger area? Does it have marker detection?

[@Black240SXDrift]

Thanks, man! I'm going to be doing some larger scans soon to see how well it does on those since this scanner does not support target recognition. I'll be testing it out on geometry heavy and light objects to see what we can get away with. Also, some digital assembly as well.

[@imatt6566]

Killer results for the price point. You know my past.. In 2006 I never imagined the then white light ATOS technology would become accessible for more users. The cost at that time was staggering for most businesses and all private users.

[@Black240SXDrift]

Absolutely!

[@toddblackstone6275]

This is rad.

[@Black240SXDrift]

Thanks Todd!!

[@Kristiyan91]

Very good video, can you print this object and show how it look and the difference. Thank you in advance. Very good channel!

[@Black240SXDrift]

I plan on doing something similar in the future! Keep watching!

[@ZKTVtechedu24]

What did you do with the three scaned images ? How did you merge them into one ??

[@Black240SXDrift]

I start that process at 9:17

[@ZKTVtechedu24]

@@Black240SXDrift Thanks but what does that suppose to mean ...you joined all those three scanned images into one single consolidated image by using 9:17 !!?

[@Black240SXDrift]

@zishankhan7428 I talk about it on the video at the 9:17 mark. 9 minutes and 17 seconds in.

[@ZKTVtechedu24]

@@Black240SXDrift I am in your debt 👍

[@Black240SXDrift]

@zishankhan7428 no problem!

[@pqmsolutions6326]

for a part of that size, won't be better to use Mole or Seal scanners?

[@Black240SXDrift]

You could, but level of detail is more than adequate. If you want to see something larger I did another video scanning an engine and transmission

[@slappynutsphd]

What laptop/graphics card are you using?

[@Black240SXDrift]

I'm using an ACER Nitro 5 AN515-57 with the intel core i7 11800H @2.3 ghz and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti graphics card. The thing is, in 3D Scanning RAM is king. A lot of the 3d scanning and processing software out there do a terrible job of effective resource use and rely strongly on Ram. My laptop will only use 32 gb ram. I tried to get 64 but the bios couldn't handle it. You will do much better the more ram you have. We ran crazy multi core processors and high dollar graphics cards at my previous job and found that most software doesn't utilize graphics cards or even the multi cores in the processors, and the "cheap" computer with 128gb of ram ran everything a lot better. I strongly recommend as much ram as you can throw at whatever computer you are using. You will have a much better experience with scanning. A good processor and graphics card will help for sure, but the ram will be a much better return on investment that crazy graphics card and processor.

[@slappynutsphd]

@Black240SXDrift TY sir, that is exactly what I wanted to know. I had to buy a new computer for mine (needed one for the shop anyways). Later i5 with 16gig seems to do the job when it is plugged in. There must be something in the power settings that causes it to struggle otherwise.

[@Black240SXDrift]

@charlesbauer1747 yeah laptops usually throttle performance on battery. You could play with the settings, but I always plug in because even the killer laptops we had at one of my last jobs would suck a battery dry very fast.

[@slappynutsphd]

​@Black240SXDrift pretty impressed with this thing so far (got mine friday). One freehand scan on my kitchen counter produced a very workable scan (I am far from an expert). I didn't get the turntable because we have weld positioners at my shop and the tripod looks pretty cheapo as well.

[@Black240SXDrift]

@@slappynutsphd Yeah, honestly it's not super needed. With the stand off distance of the scanner, the stand provided is too small to get good angles by itself. Also the turn table is really only good for smaller stuff and is just convenient so you don't have to walk around the part to scan. I would almost rather just use a cheap lazy susan type manual turn table because the automated turntable is tethered to the scanner, so it's one more cable to contend with. The biggest thing is slow smooth movements so the scanner doesn't loose tracking. The program does a decent job automatically getting rid of data, but if there is bad data too close to good data, you end up with weird mesh issues. This happens even on higher end scanners, though not as often. That's really one of the downsides of scanning with no target recognition. But the scan I got was very useable and decent quality. There a tricks you can do for "cheating" accuracy for things like hole locations etc to work around some of the issues. But spending a little more time scanning will definitely save you a bunch of time in post processing.

[@nickvantwillert1]

Can you do a bigger object?

[@Black240SXDrift]

Yes scanning an engine andtransmission this week. Going to have that video up this Saturday

[@nickvantwillert1]

@@Black240SXDrift nice! Can you do some measurements on the engine?

[@Black240SXDrift]

@nickvantwillert1 I'll have some general measurements, but the real test is when I design and print a test part, whether or not it fits haha