Posts made by Trevor Townsend

• 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
• 3D model of the calibration holder

  We'll give it some consideration. We haven't been too worried about people losing them because it's easy to keep everything together in the carrying case.

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Trevor Townsend
  5/3/25, 5:06 PM
• Electric screwdriver assembly thread

  Damn that looks amazing! We did make some software updates to alignment over the last few releases. These alignment updates also obviate the need for additional planar geometry in the scans of smal...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  4/28/25, 2:33 PM
• A couple of smaller features that would be super nice to have!

  Hi guys, we're taking a look at this. thanks!

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Trevor Townsend
  4/28/25, 2:22 PM
• A couple of smaller features that would be super nice to have!

  Hi Justin, what does the scan look like with the texturing opacity at zero? That may just be an artifact of having not yet done the texture processing. 

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Trevor Townsend
  4/23/25, 4:24 PM
• A couple of smaller features that would be super nice to have!

  Hi Justin, I'm not sure what's happening there. Please contact support through the THREE software, which will include the log file. We might need to see this project as well, but we'll take a look ...

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Trevor Townsend
  4/23/25, 4:05 PM
• A couple of smaller features that would be super nice to have!

  Hi Justin,  We just released version 11 of the THREE software, and amongst it's many improvements are two of the features you asked for: invert selection, and smoothing! Trevor.

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Trevor Townsend
  4/16/25, 8:13 PM
• A couple of smaller features that would be super nice to have!

  Hi Justin, Thanks for your feedback!  1. Polygonal selection - We'll add this to the list, but it will be lowish priority since we already have rectangular and lasso selection tools. 2...

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Trevor Townsend
  4/7/25, 4:18 PM
• Furry and moving objects

  Hi Allen, THREE will not capture geometry very well off most furry objects. It might do a little better with light-colored fur, but it's not going to be great.  If the object moves during th...

  posted in Pre-Sales Questions

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  Trevor Townsend
  3/24/25, 9:12 PM
• Three scanner comparison

  We do not offer sample units, no.

  posted in Pre-Sales Questions

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  Trevor Townsend
  3/4/25, 4:20 PM
• Three scanner comparison

  Happy to help! By the way, the scanner's on sale for $1499 :D

  posted in Pre-Sales Questions

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  Trevor Townsend
  3/2/25, 10:02 PM
• Three scanner comparison

  I don't have a minifig scan, but here's a warhammer figurine scan we did, which has a lot more fine detail on it than a minifig: https://skfb.ly/ptVyK You are correct about getting smaller objects...

  posted in Pre-Sales Questions

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  Trevor Townsend
  2/28/25, 10:00 PM
• Three scanner comparison

  Hi Karine-Johanne, The two scanners are somewhat similar. As CEO of M&F, I am of course biased towards THREE, but I've not seen a direct comparison between the two anywhere. I think you can tr...

  posted in Pre-Sales Questions

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  Trevor Townsend
  2/26/25, 5:39 PM
• Some fun and informative THREE videos

  Payo's scanner reviews are great!

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  2/21/25, 8:10 PM
• THREE Programming Knowledge Base, API, and Python Library

  Hi Brandon,  The CaptureImage task is now publicly accessable, so you can capture single images with the Python library or through the API. Update your THREE software and you'll have it.

  posted in THREE API and Programming

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  Trevor Townsend
  12/6/24, 11:02 PM
• THREE Programming Knowledge Base, API, and Python Library

  Hi Brandon,  Apologies! The Python library has been made public now. The single image capture is being added to the V3Schema (API) and will be available soon. Thank you for the reminder. &n...

  posted in THREE API and Programming

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  Trevor Townsend
  11/28/24, 7:29 PM
• Bose Mini Remote - Success after firmware update

  On the topic of point noise - in the camera settings you should favour Exposure over Gain. In your  screenshot, I would try the next level up on Exposure, and reduce the Gain. Gain introduces ...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  11/28/24, 7:25 PM
• Bose Mini Remote - Success after firmware update

  I like to use Noise Reduction at 31 or 16, depending on the size of the object I'm scanning. For really detailed, small surfaces (like a coin) I go for 31. Otherwise I go for 16. Is that the offic...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Trevor Townsend
  11/28/24, 7:20 PM