>ports > disable COM2, and enable any other port.right click on Modela > printer properties.
unscrew 2 plugs on the side of the square.Change the proces - machine sends info instead of receiving.Change milling head to scan head.Oh yes and of course some pictures of the results The steps to scan with a Roland Modela: About the scan pitch: 0.6mm compared to 0.2mm for a walnut is quite a big one but it worked well enough for practice). Well I would never have been able to model this in 10 mins with the skills I have today. These were my settings, I was done in 10 minutes. Compared to a walnut my object is not only very small but also less complex in terms of curves. Don't use objects with reflecting surfaces.ģD Scanning with the Roland Modela A quick and dirty scanĪfter Shirley's object took hours and hours I decided let's go for quick and dirty.It's just upside down.and missing some of the cutout details and it's funny about the surface it's standing on. To rule out my failures are caused by the shiny surface. I'm not giving up on the pearl but I need to try something else now. I'm starting to think it's the reflective quality of the pearl that's giving problems because the other students are getting their scans in with much less problems. Wow gigantic fail again! My pearl looks like a shell now, or a boob.Well by the looks of current prosthetic boobs and bras getting a good model for that is hard enough nowadays, maybe there's money in my pearl boob, haha. Focusing was a lot easier now for some reason, perhaps because the relative difference between yellow pearl and white background is smaller than (so less overcompensation on the automatic white balance). Let's try it.įourth attempt! Taking pics on a white backdrop in the photobooth. TRAGIC fail.Shirley suggested a white background, which worked for her. Third attempt! I put my pearl in the photo booth and borrowed Casper's Olloclip x10 macro lens for iPhone to capture the images. Second attempt: I got closer, but my iPhone was unable to focus properly and after 6 pics I figured I kept getting really blurry pictures. I had captured an entire table, and my pearl was so tiny that it was really pixely and not at all hi-res. The first attempt I did, i quickly found out that I needed to get way more up close and personal with my object. I chose a natural pearl because it has a very subtle irregular oval shape that would be hard to model. The first scan I made was by using the 123D Catch app for iPhone and iPad. Assignment: 1) Scan an object (optional: print it) and 2) design and print an object that couldn't be done subtractively A ball in a ball, final print 3D Scanning with 123D Catch