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Black Amorphous Shape - Sligtly Askew Results
10/6/25, 5:44 PM • Tom Meeks 10/8/25, 4:17 PM

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Tom Meeks
10/8/25, 4:17 PM

Thanks! I would think that putting some time and effort into "Staging" parts would pay dividends...
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Best export file type to convert to CAD
10/5/25, 5:38 PM • DCLARS 10/6/25, 3:16 PM

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Tom Meeks
10/6/25, 3:16 PM

@DCLARS I use a free application called FreeCad to convert STL files to STEP. https://www.freeca...
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Align Scans to Axis
9/4/25, 1:06 AM • Brian Hyland 9/4/25, 1:06 AM

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Brian Hyland
9/4/25, 1:06 AM

Is there a way to repostion scan to align with axis?
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Merge Scans Struggling with Merge results
8/13/25, 5:50 PM • Andrew McNeill 8/14/25, 1:55 PM

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Trevor Townsend
8/14/25, 1:55 PM

Hi Andrew, The Merge screen meshing step closes all holes on the scan. The bottom of that scan, ...
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Weird artifiacts appearing on scanned object while orbiting
7/16/25, 2:24 AM • Zackary Long 7/17/25, 3:22 PM

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Trevor Townsend
7/17/25, 3:22 PM

OK, thanks for this information. If you export the scan as an STL or PLY, and open it in meshlab&...
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Bypassing the insecure download check in Chome
7/11/25, 5:06 PM • Joseph Chiu 7/11/25, 5:06 PM

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Joseph Chiu
7/11/25, 5:06 PM

If you want to streamline downloading the exports from the THREE, you can enable automatic downlo...
Electric screwdriver assembly thread
10/18/24, 12:15 AM • Jordan Cain 7/11/25, 4:34 PM

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Joseph Chiu
7/11/25, 4:34 PM

Love this! Absolutely gorgeous result! The attention to details is amazing. Did you ...
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feature request How to export incomplete pointclouds
6/10/25, 4:59 PM • Teles Marie 6/10/25, 8:28 PM

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Alex Berezowsky
6/10/25, 8:28 PM

Hi there. I answered your question via chat, but figured I'd post here as well in case anyone els...
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Why does it fail?
6/3/25, 2:02 PM • Xavier Guerin 6/3/25, 2:20 PM

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Xavier Guerin
6/3/25, 2:20 PM

Ok thank you for this quick reply. And Yes I wanted to share with others as the previous post on ...
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Motorcycle Scan Example
8/31/24, 4:06 AM • Andrew McNeill 6/2/25, 1:24 PM

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Teles Marie
6/2/25, 1:24 PM

@Drew Shark Hi there, I'd like to follow up on the "large object workflow" progress. I'm scanning...
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Question when creating mesh?
5/7/25, 4:25 PM • Seth Lowe 5/7/25, 8:41 PM

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Trevor Townsend
5/7/25, 8:41 PM

Hi Seth, The large page in the background is caused by some extra 3D points floating around out ...
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Rough Start
5/7/25, 11:26 AM • Seth Lowe 5/7/25, 2:56 PM

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Trevor Townsend
5/7/25, 2:56 PM

Hey Seth, regarding your alignment issues - the latest version (frontend 11.6; backend 11.3) of t...
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Benefit of using horizontal and vertical pattern?
3/10/25, 10:56 AM • Christian Gassner 3/10/25, 5:27 PM

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Christian Gassner
3/10/25, 5:27 PM

I do not know if it's always good idea to make this different to other. Even if they are faster a...
How to improve real results with mechanical parts?
10/12/24, 6:45 AM • Vaclav Zdrazil 3/8/25, 8:58 PM

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Christian Gassner
3/8/25, 8:58 PM

In any case, when you give it time, some quite usable things come out of it, although I now pre...
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Some fun and informative THREE videos
2/12/25, 7:17 PM • Tom Meeks 2/21/25, 8:10 PM

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Trevor Townsend
2/21/25, 8:10 PM

Payo's scanner reviews are great!
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Software V2 3D Scanner Unscanned area V2 3D Scanner Unscanned area
1/20/25, 7:01 PM • Giancarlo Domanico 1/20/25, 8:14 PM

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Giancarlo Domanico
1/20/25, 8:14 PM

@Alex Berezowsky Thank you. I will do a new scan tomorrow and send you all the files. Regards
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Focus point, focus distance, depth of focus, and scanning quality
12/10/24, 9:25 PM • Joseph Chiu 12/11/24, 7:43 PM

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Drew Shark
12/11/24, 7:43 PM

Hi Joseph, Great question.If you want a rule of thumb for accuracy, then it should be the cl...
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Bose Mini Remote - Success after firmware update
11/23/24, 8:40 AM • Joseph Chiu 11/28/24, 7:25 PM

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Trevor Townsend
11/28/24, 7:25 PM

On the topic of point noise - in the camera settings you should favour Exposure over Gain. In you...
Planar Alignment
9/10/24, 5:39 AM • Jordan Cain 9/19/24, 1:08 PM

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Jordan Cain
9/19/24, 1:08 PM

@Tom Meeks Haha no problem! I have been busy with work for the past week and haven't had time to ...
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THREE Calibration
9/3/24, 4:33 PM • Alexander Williams 9/8/24, 3:11 PM

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Jordan Cain
9/8/24, 3:11 PM

Concerning the full calibration, I've done this twice (the second time was just to see if I could...

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