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Howdy all,
Lately, i'm frequently finding myself having to scan a range of parts that aren't typical fare for a dental scanner. Sometimes it's producing scans of manufactured crowns and other bits for QA analysis and fit troubleshooting by comparing scanned meshes to the original design .STLs using the Zeiss Quality Suite GOM Inspect software (it's free and very handy for this sort of thing, I don't know how much adoption this has in this industry),other times it's scanning non-dental calibration parts and milling test artifacts for QA reasons.
Having worked primarily with a Kavo LS3 and a little bit with a 3Shape E3, I'm finding this kind of oddball scanning work awkward at best because it doesn't conform to the work the scanners expect you to be doing. I wish there were an 'open-ended' scanning mode for these tools, that'll just scan whatever I put in there, capturing from angles X to Y with the part at Z height, etc.
So: is there a better way to be doing this kind of work? Is there an ideal scan type or configuration that will give me better results or more control over the process? I know the Kavo scan software is very limiting wrt rejecting scans that don't 'look' like the part type you've specified, but I haven't spent much time at all with the 3Shape, so if it's better for this kind of thing I can try to get some more time with the 3Shape scanning suite.
Lately, i'm frequently finding myself having to scan a range of parts that aren't typical fare for a dental scanner. Sometimes it's producing scans of manufactured crowns and other bits for QA analysis and fit troubleshooting by comparing scanned meshes to the original design .STLs using the Zeiss Quality Suite GOM Inspect software (it's free and very handy for this sort of thing, I don't know how much adoption this has in this industry),other times it's scanning non-dental calibration parts and milling test artifacts for QA reasons.
Having worked primarily with a Kavo LS3 and a little bit with a 3Shape E3, I'm finding this kind of oddball scanning work awkward at best because it doesn't conform to the work the scanners expect you to be doing. I wish there were an 'open-ended' scanning mode for these tools, that'll just scan whatever I put in there, capturing from angles X to Y with the part at Z height, etc.
So: is there a better way to be doing this kind of work? Is there an ideal scan type or configuration that will give me better results or more control over the process? I know the Kavo scan software is very limiting wrt rejecting scans that don't 'look' like the part type you've specified, but I haven't spent much time at all with the 3Shape, so if it's better for this kind of thing I can try to get some more time with the 3Shape scanning suite.