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LET'S TALK ABOUT 3D SCANNING |
Many of Growshapes' customers are universities who have adopted 3D scanners as tools to fulfill their research project goals in reverse engineering, biomedical, anthropology, digital arts and beyond. But interestingly, we have only sold 3D scanners to a handful of high schools. This summer, we hired a high school intern Stephen Kwak, who is a sophomore at Belarmine College Preparatory in California. As a summer project, Stephen embarked on a new challenge to 3D scan his favorite item - a baseball! Beyond studying hard at school, he plays as an outfielder and pitcher in a baseball travel team called, California Bulldogs 16u, competing in both local and national tournaments. He was also part of the Bellarmine Freshman Baseball team last spring season. So you know why he wanted to 3D scan a baseball! Stephen ultimately wants to scan various baseball equipment including his glove to figure out how to create a better fitting glove through scanning his hand. He also wants to help kids with disabilities that prevent them from playing baseball. That will be the next stage of his 3D scanning journey! Check out what he learned over the summer using the HP 3D Structured Light Scanner Pro S3 with Dual Camera and see how he embedded the 3D scan file into Microsoft Powerpoint as a 3D object so you can see the 3D scan from all anggles.
His interest in technology stems from his parents both having engineering backgrounds, which has influenced him immensely. Currently Stephen is most interested in 3D related tech and artificial intelligence. It's great to see new 3D tech being explored and used by a high school student - great work Stephen! Growshapes is an HP Silver Partner of HP 3D scanning solutions and the official U.S. distributor of Open Technologies 3D Scanners - an endorsement that makes us proud.
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Growshapes likes 3D-scanning stuff (naturally!) to see how digitization impacts industry and people. This month we 3D-scanned a beautiful Bizen-ware bird, created by Japanese ceramic artist Yukiko Akai, who lives in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Yukiko uses an 800-year-old kiln firing method for ceramics, which originated on the Korean peninsula and migrated to the town of Bizen, Japan, eventually evolving into Bizen-ware. Bizen-ware is a durable ceramic with a distinct gloss created from a chemical reaction of clay, fire, and firewood ash, rather than from glazing. Even without glazing, the ceramic is watertight. Because of Bizen-ware uses all-natural materials and processes, Yukiko also participates in the excavation of medieval kilns to research historical kiln structures, document findings, and educate others. Such research aims to not only uncover the past, but also enable exploration of new artistic expressions. This summer, Yukiko and her Master (teacher) undertook a project in Arkansas to recreate the Bizen-ware process there, using the clay and local materials of Arkansas. You can read more about the project here. When Growshapes encountered her work, the first thing we thought was, “Let’s digitize!” So here it is. A piece from Yukiko's signature "Bird" series in its digital glory. This piece was a bit tricky to 3D scan due to its dark color, gloss and the concave shape on the top. The key was to place the object in the right position, 3D scan from several angles so that the light would cast on all angles of the object. The "Bird" has been scanned using the HP 3D Structured Light Pro S3 with dual camera, with the scanner set up on the desk scan lever, and the object placed on the automated turntable. Click to buy the HP 3D Structured Lights Scanner Pro S3 with Dual Camera Bundle. The whole scanning process took less than 2 hours from set up to file clean up. Organic shapes, especially symmetrical ones, tend to be difficult to align in 3D scanning. But the HP 3D scanner alignment features really excelled once again!
Growshapes is an HP Silver Partner of HP 3D scanning solutions and the official U.S. distributor of Open Technologies 3D Scanners - an endorsement that makes us proud.
See the innovators on Growshapes’ social media channels to get the latest expert news on innovation in 3D digitization, then share your thoughts and join the conversation about 3D digital innovation with #digitize3D Many of our customers are scanning very small objects or large objects. The great thing is the HP Pro S3 3D scanner is quite flexible and offers calibration panels that you can print out. The calibration point pattern files come with the HP 3D Scan 5 software. After you have installed the software on your PC, the calibration point patterns is stored under Program Files. You will find it per below. "Program Files on your PC > HP 3D Scan 5 > printout" The key is to create a 90° corner with the right side and left side panels and ensure the panels are flat to enable successful calibration with your custom calibration panel. Our FREE TURNTABLE (worth $1,199) FOR EVERY HP 3D SCANNER PRO S3 PURCHASE campaign is ending soon, so if you are contemplating buying the HP Pro S3 3D scanner, now is the time! Growshapes is an HP Silver Partner of HP 3D scanning solutions and the official U.S. distributor of Open Technologies 3D Scanners - an endorsement that makes us proud.
See the innovators on Growshapes’ social media channels to get the latest expert news on innovation in 3D digitization, then share your thoughts and join the conversation about 3D digital innovation with #digitize3D Yes, you can even 3D scan a walnut. All you need to do is to calibrate the HP 3D scanner Pro S3 using the smallest calibration scale, 30mm, on the calibration panel. A walnut has various protrusions and as result, creates lots of shadows when casting the projector light onto it. So we propped up the walnut on a black foam to ensure the projector light could penetrate the walnut as much as possible. We used black foam that comes inside pelican briefcases. One of our customers taught us this trick and it really works well as the 3D scanner only captures some bits of the foam due to its dark color. The bits captured can be easily deleted in the editing phase. Figure 1: Setup Below is the combination of the 3D scan files, all 47 different scans as we tried to capture the undercut as much as possible. The 3D scans still have have holes as was really difficult to penetrate the projector light into every undercut of the walnut. Furthermore, the difficulty was aligning the front and the back of the walnut as the side profile was pretty difficult to capture. Figure 2: 3D scan results And here is the fusion results after the HP 3D Scan software automatically closed all the holes to create a watertight model. And now we know that the walnut is 1,314 mm³ or 0.08 in³! Figure 3: Fusion Results We just wanted to show you with this blog that you can 3D scan even a walnut! Our FREE TURNTABLE (worth $1,199) FOR EVERY HP 3D SCANNER PRO S3 PURCHASE campaign is ending soon, so if you are contemplating buying the HP Pro S3 3D scanner, now is the time! Growshapes is an HP Silver Partner of HP 3D scanning solutions and the official U.S. distributor of Open Technologies 3D Scanners - an endorsement that makes us proud.
See the innovators on Growshapes’ social media channels to get the latest expert news on innovation in 3D digitization, then share your thoughts and join the conversation about 3D digital innovation with #digitize3D Happy 4th of July from the Growshapes Team! We still get questions like "Is DAVID and HP the same hardware?" We can assure you that the old DAVID products and the HP products are compatible so if you ever want to upgrade your DAVID 4 software to HP Pro V5 software or add another HD camera, you can purchase the software and accessories as an add-on to your original DAVID 3D scanners from here. We are also continuing our FREE TURNTABLE (worth $1,199) FOR EVERY HP 3D SCANNER PRO S3 PURCHASE campaign, so if you are contemplating buying the Pro S3 3D scanner, now is the time! Growshapes is an HP Silver Partner of HP 3D scanning solutions and the official U.S. distributor of Open Technologies 3D Scanners - an endorsement that makes us proud.
See the innovators on Growshapes’ social media channels to get the latest expert news on innovation in 3D digitization, then share your thoughts and join the conversation about 3D digital innovation with #digitize3D The HP 3D scanner is so easy to use and captures even shiny objects (not too shiny though of course!) with its advanced structured light patterns. The 3D scan alignment algorithm is quite advanced too. To showcase these points, we wanted to show you the wheel spacer we 3D scanned. The wheel spacer was scanned using the HP Structured Light 3D Scanner with dual camera, fixed onto the desk scan lever and the wheel spacer was placed on the automated turntable. This full set up can be purchased here. 8 scans of the front and then 8 scans of the back was captured. The space wheel was propped up on a black foam so it could capture the inner parts of the wheel spacer. Below shows the set up, the aligned scans, the mesh of the fused model and the fused model. You can see on the fused model that the lettering on the wheel spacer was captured accurately as well. The challenge of this object was to align the front and back as the software tried to align the flat surfaces on one dimension. Finding the right pairwise alignment point was the key to ensure the front and back aligned correctly - this was the part that took a bit of trial and error. Below is all the detailed numerical information of the 3D scan of the wheel spacer. The file can be exported in obj, stl, ply or 3mf formats to be 3D printed or exported to various 3D software. So what do you think? Contact us if you have any questions about this amazing 3D scanner from HP. You'll be surprised how easy it is to use and how well it captures various objects! We're currently offering a free automated turntable worth $1,199 with every Pro S3 purchase! day!
Growshapes is an HP Silver Partner of HP 3D scanning solutions and the official U.S. distributor of Open Technologies 3D Scanners - an endorsement that makes us proud. See the innovators on Growshapes’ social media channels to get the latest expert news on innovation in 3D digitization, then share your thoughts and join the conversation about 3D digital innovation with #digitize3D Have you ever wondered which technology within 3D scanning would be most suitable for your reverse engineering, measurement or inspection needs? Trimech hosted a great webinar where Artec explained per below, how different 3D scanning technologies cover different spectrums of industrial applications. Growshapes carries HP's and Open Technologies' structured light 3D scanners which are stationary, not handheld like the Artec 3D scanners. While the handheld scanners enables to move around especially large objects more easily, the stationary models like HP Pro S3 or Open Technologies Cronos uses an automatic turntable whereby small to medium size objects are placed onto the turntable which rotates at set angles, making the alignment more accurate and easy, achieving 50 micron level accuracy even with the mid-end HP 3D scanners. The Open Technologies Cronos can achieve 15-30 micron level accuracy. Different applications require different 3D scanners as you can see above. You may need a stationary one vs. handheld or vice versa. If you are not sure which is the best 3D scanner to buy for your needs, just call us or email us so we can help you. Even if Growshapes do not carry the exact product you want, we have a great network in the industry and we are more than happy to help you connect with the right people to get the 3D scanner you need! Growshapes is an HP Silver Partner of HP 3D scanning solutions and the official U.S. distributor of Open Technologies 3D Scanners - an endorsement that makes us proud.
See the innovators on Growshapes’ social media channels to get the latest expert news on innovation in 3D digitization, then share your thoughts and join the conversation about 3D digital innovation with #digitize3D According to the latest ResearchAndMarket's report, the global 3D scanning market valued at USD 3.69 billion in 2017 is expected to reach USD 6.22 billion by the end of 2023, with a CAGR of 8.62% during the forecasted period 2018-2023. The report notes "when it comes to innovations that have changed the world, 3D scanners should be listed among the top." This is so true! We get inquiries from a variety customers in different industries that want to incorporate 3D scanning into their design, reverse engineering as well as measurement and analysis workflow to improve their design and analysis process. This report also notes the US market being the fastest growing 3D scanning market. We can help you understand what 3D scanning can do for your business. We are continuing the free turntable (worth $1,190) with every HP 3D Structured Light Scanner Pro S3 scanner purchase campaign. Growshapes is also now distributing the industrial grade 3D scanners from Open Technologies Visit our online store today! Growshapes is an HP Silver Partner of HP 3D scanning solutions and the official U.S. distributor of Open Technologies 3D Scanners - an endorsement that makes us proud.
See the innovators on Growshapes’ social media channels to get the latest expert news on innovation in 3D digitization, then share your thoughts and join the conversation about 3D digital innovation with #digitize3D Growshapes visited Open Technologies in Brescia, Italy last week to get trained on the amazing 3D scanners they produce, namely Cronos (industrial), Aurum (smaller objects) and Insight3 (handheld). These different 3D scanners are tailored for different applications to ensure optimal results in 3D scanning. The different 3D scanners are all controlled by the Optical RevEng software that has advanced capabilities not only in capturing accurate point clouds, but in mesh manipulation as well. Take a look at the complex organic shape Cronos 3D managed to scan. The mesh manipulation has cool features like offset and invert, hence you can recreate the insides of the long pipes which is usually impossible to 3D scan! Contact us if you want to know more! See the innovators on Growshapes’ social media channels to get the latest expert news on innovation in 3D digitization, then share your thoughts and join the conversation about 3D digital innovation with #digitize3D
We live in an information society where we can consume a multitude of information on various devices, but the digital information we consume today is still predominantly 2D.
The drive to digitizing almost everything is rapidly shifting from 2D to 3D as you can see in the investment being made into Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality and Virtual Reality by major companies such as Google, Microsoft, Intel and HP. 3D is not only for the entertainment domain, however. It is already being used in medicine, architecture, engineering, design, manufacturing, archaeology, and cosmetic surgery. But here are three ways that it will affect the lives of most people in the next 20 years:
So, 3D scanning technologies are likely to play a bigger role in 3D digitization of the world, understanding the world in 3D and archiving the world in 3D. As more applications requiring 3D content, 3D recognition and 3D comprehension increase, so will the demand for 3D scanning. Technology will continue to advance as the need to digitize everything you can see into a virtual 3D model will only increase. Want to know more? At Growshapes we have been at the forefront of this technology, and will remain so. Growshapes is a recognized Silver HP Partner and we are happy to discuss any potential applications for the 3D scanning technology with you. Visit here for details of our scanner range and some amazing case studies of how our scanners have been enhancing people’s lives. You can join the innovators on our social media channels to get the latest expert news on innovation in 3D digitization. Share your thoughts and join in the conversation about 3D digital innovation with #digitize3D |
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