{"id":471,"date":"2005-12-05T19:26:12","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T00:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=471"},"modified":"2005-12-08T17:45:58","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T22:45:58","slug":"state-of-scanscam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"State of Scan\/Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roland seems to pop up more and more. The most recent news being their new easy-to-use 3D scanner (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolanddga.com\/news\/press\/detail.asp?id=181&#038;t=2\">press release<\/a>). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolanddg.com\/products\/lpx600\/spec.html\">specs<\/a> aren&#8217;t bad (10&#8243; x 16&#8243;; rotary and planar), the output files are good (STL\/GSF\/3DM), and the price of roughly US $12,000 isn&#8217;t completely out of reach. Nice.<\/p>\n<p>Now if I were 3D challenged and lacking creativity (and ethics), I&#8217;d get one of these and kick out a 3DM. I&#8217;d load Rhino, import that and export as an IGES into a solid modeler like Pro\/E. I&#8217;d convert the surface there to a solid and &#8211; assuming it doesn&#8217;t choke &#8211; shell it to a thin wall stock. From there it&#8217;s back out to any format that can fab a part in metal. Custom metalsmiths and jewellers, <em>all your base are belong to us<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deskeng.com\/News\/Headlines\/One-Button-3D-Laser-Scanning-20051205769.html\">Desktop Engineering<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roland seems to pop up more and more. The most recent news being their new easy-to-use 3D scanner (press release). The specs aren&#8217;t bad (10&#8243; x 16&#8243;; rotary and planar), the output files are good (STL\/GSF\/3DM), and the price of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=471\">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-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","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=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}