Scanning & Processing in Table Scan Mode | Creality CR Scan Lizard User Guide

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[@planesstevee]

Thank you so much! Best video on this software on youtube. Really appreciate it!!!

[@DraftID]

No worries mate :)

[@jannerboyjohn]

Really appreciate your time and effort you are putting into these videos. Look forward to the hand held videos so we can see your good work again! Note the software has an update now so hope you can review with the latest version.

[@DraftID]

Thanks mate. I have been writing out the script for the next video which like you mentioned, is first going to be on the updated version. I feel its worth covering a few of the new changes in the software before moving into the handheld video so those following along don't get too confused with the sudden button changes etc. I plan to have it out this week.

[@MrWagner528]

@@DraftID Oustanding,, I'll be looking out for it.

[@Linthi]

Very helpfull, thank you!🤝👍

[@BrickBazooka]

I want to learn more, please make another calm and easy to understand tutorial :)

[@DraftID]

I will as soon as I can as the next one to do is the handheld mode. Uni has just been pretty demanding with my time.

[@Lynnjohnsonmuldokken]

Thanks for this, I was really confused and some of this wording is very bad. I agree with you.

[@DraftID]

Your welcome.

[@calebverdught]

Super awesome content! I was waiting for someone to start a series on this scanner. You got a new sub here!

[@DraftID]

Thank you :)

[@Hilmi12]

Very helpful, a good video will be a trouble shooting guide, I tried to scan an anodized Aluminium part that SAS black and had a texture on it like powder costing and it failed miserably. I think I had the brightness too high. Will try again tomorrow with what I learned here

[@DraftID]

I do hope to towards the end do a tips and tricks video to collate all the things I learn along the way. Also plan to do future videos with new methods that pop up :) Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@calebverdught]

Try some dry shampoo on your object. It helps!

[@DraftID]

@@calebverdught I def got to try some.

[@thal0de]

Thank you!

[@theotherebikeguy1473]

Great presentation. Thank you!!!

[@moss3682]

Thanks for the help

[@DraftID]

Your welcome :)

[@jadissel]

It got me goiing, many thanks

[@DraftID]

Glad it helped :)

[@StevenHughes0]

Thank you so much for this

[@hudali311]

excellent illustration! it really helped. I'd like to share with you one of the really great suggestions that benefited me from Finite Projects channel was to coat shiny object with some make-up powder and then do the scan. it gave me excellent results for many objects like cell phones, vape, a butter knife, and some awkward stuff laying around me. this adds to including texture mapping. that's because make-up powder is almost transparent so it allows the scanner to detect texture easily. try that please! Thanks!

[@DraftID]

That is certainly something I want to try like using talcum powder. I have some black models that just wont scan even though creality claims the lizard can scan black objects. Thanks for the tip.

[@danielfeil8232]

Heya, taking the time to make this video series. It's been really helpful. Just wondering have you made the hand scan video yet?

[@DraftID]

Final week of uni trimester currently so have been very busy, but as soon as the week is out of the way I can put some time back into the videos and finish the series. Sorry for the wait.

[@christianwilhelm9919]

Did you ever shoot the handheld video?

[@DraftID]

I really hope ASAP. Have an assignment due friday that I need to get out of the way and then I'm finally in the clear with uni commitments until march next year and can get back into the videos again.

[@thelimike]

Slow down a little bit that would be nice And perfect. Great video.

[@DraftID]

I’ll pad the cuts a little more to allow some breathing room. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@BrickBazooka]

thank you very much for your guidance in these videos! That helped me a lot! :-) I saw that you scanned a mortal kombat statue in handheld mode. Would you say this scanner can produce models, that could be printed nicely by an resin printer? my first impression is, that its not crisp enough, it looks more suitable for fdm prints

[@DraftID]

I had a hand scan of this statute that came out way better. I think hands scanning is better. Good enough for resin printing. In fact my FDM couldn’t do it because of all the supports.

[@BrickBazooka]

@@DraftID but actually it should be the opposite. Table /fixed scan should have more quality instead of handscan, cause you have to manually align it. I scanned a similar 12" statue and yes for the first view it looks incredible, but when zooming in you see the poor resolution, that lizard misses some details and that it needs post modeling vs a 3e model that have been 3d scuplted

[@legendarydave333]

I have been using the latest software that just released a couple days ago...but I've been having lesser results than yours and plan to play with the settings. Do you have a specific setting you are using to get the results you're having? How about the affects of ambient light (direction, intensity)? Lastly, you will probably address this upcoming but what does the color kit do other than texture? Thank You!!!

[@DraftID]

Settings I have all at default. For lighting I find in geometry mode it seems to like a darker environment since it’s using light to scan. In texture it’s using the ring flash to help light the object so it does help to be in a well lit evenly spread room. Hence why the light box is better in texture mode. Colour kit is purely just for trying to capture a colour texture of the object so if you plan to texture yourself it’s not needed. Next video will be handheld scanning (better results) and then colour kit.

[@deluxxxecars6060]

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[@kirby1fan]

hi. thanks for this. made some sense to get a better quality scan than what I've been doing! I have an issue tho and that's 3D programs can't open up the obj or stl. I wanted to throw it in to maya and clean up my scan, but maya said there were artifacts that shouldn't exist and refused to open. Blender did the same thing and so did fusion and so did photoshop. the only one that opened was microsoft 3d builder. I didn't try any slicer program, but creality's slicer probs would have opened it, but not much in terms of editing. any ideas?

[@DraftID]

Could try meshmixer too. I have only been trying with Fusion and meshmixer so far.

[@peterlee6216]

If you are on Windows, 3D Builder is also very useful. I use it for adding bases or backs to objects.

[@DraftID]

@@peterlee6216 thanks I’ll check it out.

[@xXKisskerXx]

I got mine and have been having a bugger of a time scanning anything. Most of my objects are non-glossy black, although I have tried other objects, and I just can't get anywhere near a clean scan for them. Mine came with the light-box (for the color mode) from them giving me an upgrade (due to shipping issue) so I thought using that might help - but it really hasn't. Hand mode, hasn't really provided much better either, so I am not sure what to do. Do I need more ambient lighting? Less? or will I have to resort to a spray or paint over the objects to get scans? Things I would like to scan: A helmet decoration "fin/horn" - (roughly 160mm long), RC helicopter blade (roughly 190mm) and a helmet fast rail (roughly 190mm) these all have curves and are of varying thicknesses/heights. The helicopter blade is basically the whole turn-table wide, so I think that it has issues with that wide of object. I am trying to make some props for Oct31 and.. this was my big idea to scan and print them in groups instead of buying so many up front.. as a first break-in for the scanner use.. but this.. isn't looking well. Forget 0.05mm accuracy.. I can't even get 0.5mm accuracy. So I am looking forward to future videos on the matter.. maybe we can figure something out, without me buying some gray paint.

[@DraftID]

I do find it difficult to scan black objects despite what they claim in marketing. I also have issues with thin objects like I have a Zelda sword statue that I wanted to scan but it losses tracking when it's looking at the blade edge. I think if you want very high detail scans, this likely aint it.

[@davecamo744]

I don't have that Brightness control in the software. There's a "Use External Texture Mapping" checkbox wether I'm in Geometry or Texture.

[@DraftID]

Are you on mac? I don't think mac has that feature currently for some reason.

[@davecamo744]

I AM on a Mac. So, that sucks. The funny thing is that I had the older scanner and had the brightness control for that device but then traded it in for the Lizard because I needed to be able to get the scanner closer to my subject. So, it must have something to do with using the Lizard on the Mac.

[@DraftID]

@@davecamo744 hopefully they get it updated asap.

[@davecamo744]

@@DraftID Yeah, I noticed that the Windows version is a point higher so hopefully there'll be an update soon.

[@lewykabury]

What about the light is it better more light or less?thx

[@DraftID]

The scanner works by reflecting light off the object and reading the depth so if you have a lot of ambient light it will interfere with the scan. So technically less light is better.

[@BikerForLife01]

Im really struggling to use Studio 2.0 as I'm using a hi res screen screen on a new PC. You can't see the text or UI without a magnifying glass or getting a headache. There is no way of changing it in Windows 11 or in Studio itself.

[@DraftID]

Damn that sounds like a real pain. I'm on a 1440p screen but I'm guessing your using a 4k screen if everything is too small. Hopefully it is something they add into the software to allow UI scaling.

[@BikerForLife01]

@@DraftID yes I'm hoping its something tgey sort soon. Most high end laptops now only come with UHD or 4k screens so it us something they need to sort

[@mr_cleavers_monsters]

Worth noting that, if you click append and your previous scan disappears, it's because the box showing it is collapsed and the visibility gets turned off. Drag about on the right to get the list back then click the eye icon to make it visible.

[@DraftID]

Good point thanks.

[@mr_cleavers_monsters]

@@DraftID One for other newbies, like myself. I thought my software was broken when they went missing yesterday. Thanks for your tutorials. They got me up and running!

[@DraftID]

@@mr_cleavers_monsters Thanks mate :)

[@TheBoskoMan]

Thank you!