How to Scan
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General Scanning Guide Featured
It’s an easy guide. You do not need to be professional photographer, calibrate the camera, process photos. Just take many good overlapping photographs of a texturized object from different view-points and My3DScanner will do the rest. Please take some time to read the details below, as the Devil is in…
Our server will accept your photographs only in archived formats .RAR, . ZIP and .7z. Archive all photographs of a project in one file and upload them in MY STUDIO/Create. When the processing of your archived set of photographs is finished, you will be able to download your 3D point cloud…
After having downloaded your 3D Project from MY STUDIO/My Projects, extract .PLY file from .ZIP archive. Your .PLY contains three-dimensional colored point cloud. My3DScanner provides in-browser viewer to see your scan (available in MY STUDIO/My Projects for registered users or as a sample here) which you don’t need to download.…
My3DScanner is an exciting service and many new users rush to start without having read the Scanning Guide. There are a lot of possibilities, but there are also limitations. Our service is trying to be user-friendly, but there is a sophisticated technology behind it! Just before you start scanning, read the…
First thing our new users do is they rush to test our service. Almost everyone makes the same mistakes and often fails to make a 3D scan. Let’s not waste nobody's time, let’s test and experiment together! Experiment 1A: To start an experiment let’s reconstruct a typical BAD scene everybody…
Our leading computer engineer Alex said one day that he was tired walking around the table to scan small objects (I personally do not have problem with this – I like to play pool). He made a quick set up for accurate and painless scanning of small objects. This is…
In this tutorial you will learn how to start editing and rendering your my3dscanner project files, visualize and evaluate your model. The photo above illustrates a typical result which you will get after this tutorial and basically with no additional work. The sample project used in this tutorial was made…
