Sunday, January 22, 2017

Scanect Alternative - Autodesk ReMake

After looking around for a while I found an alternative for using an iPhone, iPad, Android phone for turning images into a 3d object. There was a program called 123D Catch by a company called Autodesk. Autodesk is the professionals' choice for 3D manufacturing and actually created the TinkerCad website for people to use. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to download 123D Catch because I kept getting "This app is not available in your country" errors.

After a bit more research it turns out that 123D Catch isn't installable anymore because they've released a new and improved replacement called ReMake. You can get a "free for educators" version at this website: http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/remake. Here's a really good video that teaches about how to best take pictures of objects for 3d scanning purposes:
I must be doing something wrong though because I tried the "turn the object around" method and ended up with this "inside out" banana:

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