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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 digitizing wizard instructions and set up
« on: December 04, 2011, 06:13:00 PM »
Rich,
I'm aware of "David" which is very limited and has been around for a while. Dentists use a scanner but they don't have much size capability. I use a dental lab to do my 3D printing and probably ask about their scanning capability. I have farmed out scanning, both laser and white light, and they are very expensive but in the case of the laser very accurate. The big problem was converting the resultant stl file to a nurbs model. I spent many hours one one of the projects. What I did was to do a numbrer of mesh splits and develop cross sections from the edges where the mesh was split.
I may well just use the router to manually take off point coordinates from the parts. Not fun but gets the job done.
I have found Mach3 very useful but my main issue with it is that information on the various wizards is sketchy at best and wading through many forums and yet many more posts seems quite cumbersome and in many cases hasn't answered my question as is the case in this thread. If only there was a reasonable way to sort out the facts and organize them in an easy to access manner.
Jack
I'm aware of "David" which is very limited and has been around for a while. Dentists use a scanner but they don't have much size capability. I use a dental lab to do my 3D printing and probably ask about their scanning capability. I have farmed out scanning, both laser and white light, and they are very expensive but in the case of the laser very accurate. The big problem was converting the resultant stl file to a nurbs model. I spent many hours one one of the projects. What I did was to do a numbrer of mesh splits and develop cross sections from the edges where the mesh was split.
I may well just use the router to manually take off point coordinates from the parts. Not fun but gets the job done.
I have found Mach3 very useful but my main issue with it is that information on the various wizards is sketchy at best and wading through many forums and yet many more posts seems quite cumbersome and in many cases hasn't answered my question as is the case in this thread. If only there was a reasonable way to sort out the facts and organize them in an easy to access manner.
Jack