You could do most of this on a $0 budget if you are in college and your roommates own an Xbox Kinect.
Thank you to Joe of Breadbox Studios and Mo of FIT and formerly Parsons 3d prototyping shops for showing me how to use the XBOX 360 Kinect as a3D scanner on Skanect software .
You can scan just about anything in 3d. (Bodies, Objects, Half Rooms, and Rooms)
The adapter for the XBOX 360 Kinect to the PC is about $10. If you don’t own an XBOX 360 Kinect I’m sure you know someone who does and Skanect is free or $129 for full version. The Skanect free is limited and can only export 5000 faces.
The following images are the progression of a quick afternoon project from 3D scans to final eye candy renderings.
Step 1 – Build a model and place it on a background that is contrasted with model and environment.
Physical Model for Scanning – Various colors to test scanning
Step 2 – Scan in Skanect (steady hand and recommend turntable for model)
3d Scan of Model
Settings for Reconstructing model from Scan if Necessary
Options for cleaning up model including simplifying model to have less faces, capping holes, etc…
Options for exporting Scan to other softwares, includes PLY, STL, OBJ, VRML
Step 3 – Export Model in a format you can import with 3D modeling software - OBJ and STL can be exported to Rhino and 3dsMax. From Rhino and 3dsMax you can export to AutoCAD (DWG, DXF) and Sketch-up (SKP). From AutoCAD and Sketch-up you can export to Revit (RVT), recommend the Sketch-up to Revit route.
3dsMax model, Simplified Faces to 10,000 faces shown
Skectup Model, 30,000 faces from Skanect
Model imported into Revit via Sketch-up
Step 4 – In Revit turn the surfaces into Curtain Panels, Walls, and add Floors. In Sketch-up model and paint. In 3dsMax turn geometry into structural frameworks and make SLICEs to create floor plates. Note: the SLICES can then be exported to AutoCAD and turned into 2D plans of scan that is now architecture.
Basic Clay model in 3dsMax
Basic Clay model in 3dsMax
Step 5 – Do some fancy stuff in the modeling software and Photoshop.
Of course it’s in a wheat field, why wouldn’t it be.
Lens Flare (Adobe Photoshop – Filter – Rendering -Lens Flare). White background and erase all edges with soft edge eraser.
natematt
Mar 3, 14 12:05 am
Step four and beyond had me rolling.
gruen
Mar 3, 14 12:33 am
Step 1: beer
Step 3: huge profits
awaiting_deletion
Mar 3, 14 6:45 am
natematt - I did my best to refrain from making this an absolute parody/satire/whatever you call that stuff they do on SNL...some of this is useful though, especially LENS FLARE.
DTL DWG
Apr 4, 14 7:25 am
How about scanning outdoors in broad daylight, anyone?
anonitect
Apr 4, 14 9:08 am
Lens flare is cool and all, but II don't think that a rendering is complete until there is a little girl holding balloons in the foreground. Fireworks are o.k., too. Balloons + fireworks = professional quality.
archanonymous
Apr 4, 14 12:55 pm
I find Autodesk 123D catch to be most useful, and much easier to set up and use.
Brusketa
May 14, 18 9:43 am
For architecture it's all good if you scan an not bigger than a room. But if you need the whole building... There is no way to scan it with Kinect.
Brusketa
May 24, 18 10:14 am
For scanning rooms I got a very interesting solution. An "upgrade" for my Wacom Mobile Studio Pro. A professional 3d scanning software Artec Studio. The purpose was that I have an ability to get 3d scanning results right on my tablet. I know, the quality is worse than with their 3d scanners. But it's cheaper, easier and much more portable. And for sure I cannot scan the whole building. We use lidar for such purpose.
You could do most of this on a $0 budget if you are in college and your roommates own an Xbox Kinect.
Thank you to Joe of Breadbox Studios and Mo of FIT and formerly Parsons 3d prototyping shops for showing me how to use the XBOX 360 Kinect as a3D scanner on Skanect software .
You can scan just about anything in 3d. (Bodies, Objects, Half Rooms, and Rooms)
The adapter for the XBOX 360 Kinect to the PC is about $10. If you don’t own an XBOX 360 Kinect I’m sure you know someone who does and Skanect is free or $129 for full version. The Skanect free is limited and can only export 5000 faces.
The following images are the progression of a quick afternoon project from 3D scans to final eye candy renderings.
Step 1 – Build a model and place it on a background that is contrasted with model and environment.
Physical Model for Scanning – Various colors to test scanning
Essential setup tools (Kinect, Skanect, Kolsch Beer)
Step 2 – Scan in Skanect (steady hand and recommend turntable for model)
3d Scan of Model
Settings for Reconstructing model from Scan if Necessary
Options for cleaning up model including simplifying model to have less faces, capping holes, etc…
Options for exporting Scan to other softwares, includes PLY, STL, OBJ, VRML
Step 3 – Export Model in a format you can import with 3D modeling software - OBJ and STL can be exported to Rhino and 3dsMax. From Rhino and 3dsMax you can export to AutoCAD (DWG, DXF) and Sketch-up (SKP). From AutoCAD and Sketch-up you can export to Revit (RVT), recommend the Sketch-up to Revit route.
3dsMax model, Simplified Faces to 10,000 faces shown
Skectup Model, 30,000 faces from Skanect
Model imported into Revit via Sketch-up
Step 4 – In Revit turn the surfaces into Curtain Panels, Walls, and add Floors. In Sketch-up model and paint. In 3dsMax turn geometry into structural frameworks and make SLICEs to create floor plates. Note: the SLICES can then be exported to AutoCAD and turned into 2D plans of scan that is now architecture.
Basic Clay model in 3dsMax
Basic Clay model in 3dsMax
Step 5 – Do some fancy stuff in the modeling software and Photoshop.
Of course it’s in a wheat field, why wouldn’t it be.
Lens Flare (Adobe Photoshop – Filter – Rendering -Lens Flare).
White background and erase all edges with soft edge eraser.
Step four and beyond had me rolling.
Step 1: beer
Step 3: huge profits
natematt - I did my best to refrain from making this an absolute parody/satire/whatever you call that stuff they do on SNL...some of this is useful though, especially LENS FLARE.
How about scanning outdoors in broad daylight, anyone?
Lens flare is cool and all, but II don't think that a rendering is complete until there is a little girl holding balloons in the foreground. Fireworks are o.k., too. Balloons + fireworks = professional quality.
I find Autodesk 123D catch to be most useful, and much easier to set up and use.
For architecture it's all good if you scan an not bigger than a room. But if you need the whole building... There is no way to scan it with Kinect.
For scanning rooms I got a very interesting solution. An "upgrade" for my Wacom Mobile Studio Pro. A professional 3d scanning software Artec Studio. The purpose was that I have an ability to get 3d scanning results right on my tablet. I know, the quality is worse than with their 3d scanners. But it's cheaper, easier and much more portable. And for sure I cannot scan the whole building. We use lidar for such purpose.
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