Posts made by Trevor Townsend

• 3D model of the calibration holder

  Hi Olivier,  We don't have these to print, sorry. You can pick up just the card and its holder, rather than the whole accessories package with the power cable, on amazon.com. Here is a link:&...

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Trevor Townsend
  11/10/25, 5:02 PM
• Exploring Scan Staging With Reference Objects

  Tom asked me to post the STL and STEP files for this ball pivot mount and I'm only too happy to do so! Thank you Tom for making this excellent scanning accessory!  The files are hosted on my...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  11/10/25, 4:59 PM
• Getting Started: Scanning Rings with THREE

  I'm glad you're enjoying your scanner Vik! Generally, light brown or white cardboard will be perfect. As long as it doesn't have a shine to it and is a neutral color it will be fine. For the jewel...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  10/22/25, 8:27 PM
• Getting Started: Scanning Rings with THREE

  Echoing what Vaclav said, when I scan something small and symmetrical, I will often put it on top of a small box, something that has a large width x length so that it sticks out around the object, ...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  10/21/25, 6:53 PM
• MFStudio Software for V3

  We talked extensively about the measurement tool and heatmapping in this blog post from January 25:    https://www.matterandform.net/blogs/news/v-10-software-update-this-is-the-big-one

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  Trevor Townsend
  10/7/25, 5:03 PM
• MFStudio Software for V3

  Ironically we had full HDR in MFStudio but no one ever used it, so it wasn't a priority for THREE.

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  Trevor Townsend
  10/6/25, 9:32 PM
• MFStudio Software for V3

  @Christian Gassner certainly it's your choice what you buy, but your post has inaccuracies, so I'll respond:  No markers / global markers are supported - CORRECT No HDR capturing (c...

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  Trevor Townsend
  10/6/25, 7:09 PM
• Black Amorphous Shape - Slightly Askew Results

  Hey Tom, don't use markers - the software isn't set up to make use of them. However, if you add some "extra geometry" into the scan, it will help with alignment on symmetric pieces like this. My go...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  10/6/25, 6:59 PM
• MFStudio Software for V3

  Thanks for the input Christian!

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  Trevor Townsend
  9/29/25, 6:56 PM
• Remeshing without hole filling

  Noted, thanks Jordan. We'll see what we can do. Another option to skip the hole filling is to export the scan from the Scans screen, by going into the menu and choosing Export. This exports the po...

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  Trevor Townsend
  8/20/25, 2:58 PM
• Struggling with Merge results

  Hi Andrew, The Merge screen meshing step closes all holes on the scan. The bottom of that scan, under the cup holders, is devoid of points and so the mesh process just covers it over, creating thi...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  8/14/25, 1:55 PM
• Weird artifiacts appearing on scanned object while orbiting

  OK, thanks for this information. If you export the scan as an STL or PLY, and open it in meshlab  - do you see the same thing?  Also, could you export the project and your log file, and ...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  7/17/25, 3:22 PM
• Weird artifiacts appearing on scanned object while orbiting

  Hi Zackary, this reminds me of a problem we had a few software revisions ago...what version of the software are you on?

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  Trevor Townsend
  7/17/25, 1:15 AM
• Idea - Calibration for coordinate orientation

  Noted, thanks Joseph. A physical mat is not likely, but we'll add axis orientation to the feature list. 

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Trevor Townsend
  7/14/25, 2:44 PM
• Python library updated

  The Python library is now updated to support version 11! There are a few issues to be aware of:  #1) Smoothing with python wont work due to a conflicting name (lambda is not supported in pyt...

  posted in THREE API and Programming

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  Trevor Townsend
  7/4/25, 10:56 PM
• Do you have Questions? Make a new topic for each unique question!

  Please make a new topic for each of your API questions, so over time a useful library of common questions gets built here. 

  posted in THREE API and Programming

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  Trevor Townsend
  7/4/25, 3:31 PM
• Electric screwdriver assembly thread

  Did you render textures over the scan for all those little parts in there? This looks incredible. 

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  5/30/25, 1:45 AM
• Question when creating mesh?

  Hi Seth, The large page in the background is caused by some extra 3D points floating around out there. Clean those away from the scans by zooming out from your scan a bit, and using the selection ...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  5/7/25, 8:41 PM
• Rough Start

  Hey Seth, regarding your alignment issues - the latest version (frontend 11.6; backend 11.3) of the software has some major improvements for alignment, so please make sure you've updated. Go into t...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  5/7/25, 2:56 PM
• A couple of smaller features that would be super nice to have!

  Hi guys, we pushed a new version this morning, that fixes this issue. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. 

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Trevor Townsend
  5/5/25, 2:30 PM