Posts made by Drew Shark

• Focus point, focus distance, depth of focus, and scanning quality

  Hi Joseph, Great question.If you want a rule of thumb for accuracy, then it should be the closer the better.  But I will caveat this with the fact that most scans do not need the best ac...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Drew Shark
  12/11/24, 7:43 PM
• Announcing the First Release of the Matter and Form THREE Python Library!

  We’re thrilled to announce the initial release of the Matter and Form THREE Python library! This library allows any developer the ability to control and interact with the Matter and Form THRE...

  posted in Announcements

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  Drew Shark
  11/27/24, 9:16 PM
• Automatic dual-brightness/exposure

  Thanks Joseph, We have this on our feature list. We're currently working on textures and some major bugs that came up. This will be next after all that.

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Drew Shark
  10/28/24, 2:22 PM
• Software release notes?

  Forgot to update herehttps://www.matterandform.net/community/xenforum/announcementsRelease notes will be in the software in the next update

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Drew Shark
  10/28/24, 2:20 PM
• Release Notes 6.14 - 8.2

  Hi everyone, Sorry for the late reply I was on vacation. We skipped V7 as it never made it through the release candidacy. We update major versions when there is a Schema change that might break pr...

  posted in Announcements

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  Drew Shark
  10/25/24, 1:46 PM
• Release Notes 6.3 - 6.14

  Heres a quick list of what's new in some of the versions lately.A quick reminder, please TURN OFF your subscription to nightly updates unless are very brave and want to risk breaking your scanner. ...

  posted in Announcements

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  Drew Shark
  9/18/24, 11:30 PM
• Increased Turntable control / feedback

  Hey Andrew,Thanks for the insight and request.First, let me say that the turntable error is common and due to a problem on the actual silicon on the processor. We found a fix and are working to get...

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Drew Shark
  9/16/24, 3:24 PM
• Software release notes?

  Thanks Tom, Well add this to a software feature soon. For now I'll post release notes here in the forum.

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Drew Shark
  9/6/24, 2:51 PM
• Option to mirror a group of scans and flip along axis

  Noted, thanks for your ideas Alex. I have them down as feature requests in our project.In the meantime, may I suggest getting to know the software Blender?  It's free and extremely powerful fo...

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Drew Shark
  9/5/24, 1:59 PM
• Toggle on the projector when starting calibration

  The projector has a strong directional light that causes reflections on the card, so we rely on ambiant light to calibrate the turntable. However the newest nightly release has a partial fix for th...

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Drew Shark
  9/5/24, 1:52 PM
• Wishlist :)

  Thanks for the input Jordan and Andrew, I have these in our feature requests. FYI, the next release will be bug focused and wont contain any of these new features (1/2 the team was on summer vacat...

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Drew Shark
  9/3/24, 1:52 PM
• Motorcycle Scan Example

  Hi Andrew,Larger scans can be a bit tough for sure. The Scooter was scanned by setting everything to low and scanning from a distance to get as much coverage as possible. Then, I manually aligned e...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Drew Shark
  9/3/24, 1:47 PM