I do but what’s the fun in that? I know it works. Have to put some miles on this pricey Beast. And I wanted to see if the standalone USB thing worked, which it does. I didn’t have to do a scan to test its function but I did.
It seemed to work good? Maybe the difference of it being a more porous Rocky surface instead of smooth plastic reflected the light differently?
I know how light reflects and absorbs off material is a gigantic rabbit hole that I’m not prepared to jump into quite yet.
Ah, yeah, that makes sense. It might make the light more uniform so the autolevel works better. Thanks.
Anyone who is interested there is a used mini for sale in California.
Selling my used twice MINI - Second-Hand Trading - Revopoint 3D
That’s a good price for a MiniPremium.
Theoretically mine is being delivered today.
I noticed the seller never got a good scan out of it (he had a post on another thread which he has since removed).
I read all his removed posts.
What I got out of those deleted posts is that machine in somebody else’s hands would work fine.
Similar to some of the crossfire issues we see.
Mini arrived today! YAY! Complete with the “Potable Turntable”.
I opened both boxes, mainly to make sure everything was present and intact. It all looked good and nice and solid. I tried the Turntable first plugging into my cellphone charger since that is USB-C and nothing. Then I unraveled the cable that came with the turntable and plugged that into a USB wall wart. That worked and a quick functional check had me spinning! I’m ok that the cellphone charger didn’t work, but it is ‘interesting’.
I’m not going to fire up the Mini since I have just a couple days left before we return to NC, but, at least, it arrived BEFORE we left this place!
Congrats @TomWS !!!
Potable is the best kind of turntable… much better than a Fixated, I suppose. 
If UPS Tracking is to be believed, my MINI will arrive tomorrow… looking forward to it.
-TM
TGIF!!!
Just opened my front door to see this…
Order placed on August 25… Arrived today Sept 23rd.
It’s a pretty nice way to head into the weekend. 
-TM
Check out this Reverse Engineering workflow utilizing Fusion 360.
This video is great, I learned lot from it .
Reverse Engineering from a 3D Scan with Fusion360... for FREE! - YouTube
@TomWS and @TortillaMan this is a must watch!
Looks cool…. Bookmarking and Subscribing to that channel for later!!! Thanks for sharing it.
-TM
I learned that there is a lot of software required in this process that I know NOTHING about! Thanks for guaranteeing my full ‘employment’ over the next seventeen years!
The first place I got stuck was, about 3 minutes in, using Mesh Mixer to fix the scan… uh, yeah, sure… but he could have provided a little more info than simply saying “We’ll use Mesh Mixer to fix this!” and then proceeding to click on the mesh and magically it’s ‘fixed’ without a CLUE as to what he was doing… sigh…
Another learning curve … I 've swamped in learning software myself for sometime now.
Lately its been broadcasting software OBS studio which is fantastic btw .
The three tools he uses are.
Sculpt >Brushes > Flatten to get rid of the bumps
Select>Brush Select a area to be delete and hit the delete key
Analysis>Inspector>Auto Repair All Hole repair feature
there is alot going on …
fusion will have all these options one day? maybe.
There’s talk about them merging Revo scan and Revo studio as well .hopefully they can incorporate some of these alignment features and then we can go straight to Fusion from there.
The alignment tool he used looks very useful. He claimed there was a free version. He did mention that you could do it in Fusion but with some difficulty and risks that the axis wouldn’t be orthogonal.
Well 3 new scanners in one year seems excessive.
Revopoint has a new new scanner coming to kick starter.
The Revopoint Range.
I guess idea is for larger items.
As soon as I find out when the kickstarter launch is happening I’ll post the date.
Looks like a big turn table maybe part of the deal
“Powerful Product Get Big Scans Done Fast”
With a working distance of up to 800mm, single frame precision of 0.1mm, and a scanning speed of up to 20fps
Dammit!!!
Haven’t even unboxed my current one (RevoPoint MINI) and its already obsolete??!!! LOL
Sounds like a better match to my application so I will definitely be watching this one.
-TM
Hardly obsolete. Diffferent capability. I haven’t gotten mine set up either as I’ve been caught in a vortex of other things that haven’t given me a window wide enough to play with it.
I thought of you when I saw this one. We should challenge @TinWhisperer to come up with a hybrid process that combines scans from both so you can have high precision where you need it, but large scan over all…
I think I have that exact discussion bookmarked from the revopoint. I’ll see if I can find it, I haven’t been spending a lot of time over on the revel point site either. been trying to keep up on my reading there.
Here’s a video release from 2 hours ago on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckf-wHMrc6m/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Here’s the link to sign up for the kickstarter alert email.
https://www.revopoint3d.com/crowdfunding/
