Hi, I am considering buying one of two options,
I have three lasers and a 3D printer, I want to guy a 3D scanner, or the apple iPad 12 pro. I want to be able to take the scan and send it to lightburn , then cut items such as gasket material, or leather , plexus. Etc. I get a lot of calls for Gaskets and want to see if a scan can work with lightburn software. Thanks.
Put a camera in your laser and use Lightburn to trace it out…
I don’t know if the software will run on an iPad… depends on the hardware and os I’d assume.
If you’re doing 2D gaskets, a 3D scanner is definitely not what you want, because it does not have the sub-millimeter-scale resolution and accuracy required to put the holes in the right place.
It is not clear to me what an iPad brings to the table, but if it’s a camera then there are much much less expensive and more convenient ways to take pictures.
In point of fact, any camera will do what you want. Position the gasket on a flat surface, take a picture from directly overhead, scale the image to the proper size, and you’re done:
Honestly, anything that’s reasonably flat like a gasket is really well scanned in a flatbed scanner. Works even better than taking a photo and is likely already calibrated for size.
I do this all the time for my Artistic boxes, I even made up a Youtube vid on my process
Get the toolKaiser app. You take a picture of the tool, feed it to the app and it will generate a cut file for cutting foam.
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