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Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2024
Takes some trials and errors to get good results. Still trying to get good results.
I. Detest-Neiklot, J.R.
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2024
I bought this specifically to scan miniatures. When I hooked it up to my phone, the app would crash every single time before ever starting a single scan. I uninstalled and reinstalled the app and made sure my phone met the prerequisite specs. No luck. When I hooked it up to my computer, the program refused to scan anything. I double-checked to make sure my computer had the requisite 8 gigs of RAM, which it did. No luck. The camera refused to recognize any object besides the platform the figure was on. I adjusted the settings, tried different focal distances, messed with brightness and exposure levels, nothing seemed to get it to work. When I did some troubleshooting online, the official website indicated that the problem might be that the object I was trying to scan might be too small. WTF? I'm not trying to scan a gnat's eyeball. I'm trying to scan a miniature.Luckily I was able to return the scanner for Amazon store credit. Other people seem to have had better luck than I, but $300 is a lot of money to spend to find out.
DataJanitor
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2024
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BurazeKun
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2023
I got this to start printing replacement parts for some of the things I work on. In reality, most of the stuff I want to print wouldn't nessesarily work via PLA but I can print nylon, abs, and even polycarbonate but I am only at the point of just making more than household items and trinkets. This has more possibility than just printing though, as you can profile with this 3D scanner and do more in programs like Blender. I have only a few things scanned, like my face, a toy rocket, and a plushy my son had requested I scanned. I quickly found out though that a turntable would be better than poking at it with my hand and editing out the artifacts that occur from that. You can use things like cake turntable for frosting. As a side note, I read that covering it in something black helps prevent it from being picked up on the scanner.For my testing, I actually hooked this directly to my PC, but there is a phone app and even a phone holder than you can clip a phone into. The phone option would help with more mobile scanning, but expect artifacting in the scan if you are doing it by hand. This scanner is for larger items, not that you can't use this on smaller things, there is just a trick to zeroing in on it and you really really need something like a turntable with smaller items as you need to maintain that distance once zeroed in and you need to be steady with the scan of I knoticed more artifacts. (Failed my benchy scan which was not a successful scan because I did not have a turntable at that point so it was not added to my list of scans. But you can zero in on it.)Using this was easy though, and the rest seems to be tweaking the right length or height for scanning. I found that it tracks faces well, and understands when you change direction of the face and perspective of the face and adds the details in while you scan. It was crazy how fun I found the whole process, and I really look forward to more things added and more crystalized knowledge on how to interact with those scans. The PC app was very intuitive, though I have nothing to say about the mobile app because I did not test with that.Price wise, this is a very competative scanner. There are options out there, like the Revoscanner or 3DMakerPro in similar price points, but you really do have to spend much much more to get something better. There are 800 dollar options that are arguably better, but really use the same tech as the Ferret does. To get better you may end up spending 1, 2, 4,or even 8 thousand dollars from what I looked up.I can absolutely recommend this, it does cost about as much as a decent 3D Printer, but enables more people to print more customized parts or things.
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