{"id":1177,"date":"2007-02-16T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2007-02-21T23:50:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T04:50:48","slug":"nextengine-scans-rapidform-seals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"NextEngine Scans; Rapidform Seals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned the NextEngine before (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=614\">reLink<\/a>), but one of the issues with scan data is generating &#8220;watertight&#8221; models. If there&#8217;s a gap between a couple of surface patches you can either try to repair it, try to work around it, or toss it altogether. I&#8217;ve done all three. You might recall the problems I had trying to repair a bunch of unaligned and mismatched patches on a model I&#8217;d ripped from Second Life and ported into Pro\/ENGINEER (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=633\">reLink<\/a>). Never got back to that. Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deskeng.com\/News\/Headlines\/NextEngine-Teams-with-Rapidform-200702151666.html\">Desktop Engineering is reporting news (Link)<\/a> related to that NextEngine scanner. From the DE site:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At SolidWorks World in New Orleans last week, NextEngine (Santa Monica, CA) introduced RapidWorks, a suite of tools that lets you take raw points from your NextEngine Desktop 3D Scanner and turn them into idealized SolidWorks SLDPRT part files.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nAlthough the high-end version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rapidformxor.com\/\">RapidformXOR<\/a> normally costs about $20,000, the RapidWorks product for the NextEngine Scanner is priced at  $2,495.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nNextEngine says that its ScanStudio ART is tailored for designers who want to create fully healed watertight models for 3D printing and complex design or CGI tasks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Between this announcement and the new, sub-$10k desktop printers shipping in a few months, I&#8217;m a little stunned. I expected developments this year, but this is exceeding my expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned the NextEngine before (reLink), but one of the issues with scan data is generating &#8220;watertight&#8221; models. If there&#8217;s a gap between a couple of surface patches you can either try to repair it, try to work around it, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}