> Do Any Of You Own A Copy Stand?

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A $15 dollar item for $180. Perfect!

It's $150 not $180.

I don't see how you could build anything precise for $15.

You can make one. The two lights are whatever you have. Hole in the top for the phone to see through. Make it tall enough that the phone can see the entire area and able to then zoom in as needed
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Bensa value: $20

Does this count?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BM92YPHW

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A $15 dollar item for $180. Perfect!

merrican made!

SamplesBoi wrote:

That point of this thing is actually the integrated OCR workflow.  It has great OCR software.  It is not 3D and does not even really do color graphics all that well.  It's does digitize charts, etc. very well and is extremely popular in the electronics tech community for digitizing old technical manuals.  That is what it truly excels at.

My use case is easier.

I want to be able to get perfectly horizontal photos of 3D objects in order to trace the objects in Fusion and then create custom 3D-printed holders for the objects.

Though I am widely known as Senor Dinero En Fuego, I think $700 is a bit steep for this use case. $150 felt just on the edge of too much.

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SamplesBoi wrote:

I paid $500 for it.  Too bad the price has increased.

Excluding the costs for a moment, do you think it would work for my use case?

Spanky wrote:

Excluding the costs for a moment, do you think it would work for my use case?

If I was not doing OCR I wouldn't have bought it.  I think simple might be better for you.  I like the foot pedal, but I think that there is DSLR control software that can do the same thing.

There another method you can try. That is to place your object, assuming it will stand upright against a white board or piece of paper, and then with a strong direct light - trace the shadow. Then scan the tracing.

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All you need is a old SLR, a tripod, a table and balanced lighting.

In reality you need to break out calipers and actually measure/model the things you are making.

Trying to outline shapes the way you are describing won't produce matching parts very easily, and will require many 'fittment' prototypes.

What you really want to blow your money on is a 3d scanner. $$$

DK in 3DP.

Sockpuppet wrote:

My reading says that until you want to spend $5,000, you aren’t going to be overly happy with the results from a 3D scanner.

I believe it.  It's like laser cutters and routers/lathes.  Lots of cheap options but none of them are particularly exceptional until you spend more money.  But I think that for more "analog" 3d modeling that don't require huge precision these things might actually be good.  Like I said, busts, artworks, etc.