bobgrosh
05-17-2007, 10:28 PM
I ordered a scanner a couple weeks ago, and it was waiting for me when I got home last weekend. I was worried that I would not get one, or that it would take months to get one. I was really happy to see such prompt delivery.
Since I've only had my carver a couple weeks, I ended up using most my weekend carving projects I had drawn using my favorite picture editor. I learned a lot, and actually got a couple useful carvings, but the weekend was short, and I did not get to try my new probe.
Now, I'm planing my next adventure for this coming weekend.
I have a 1:24 scale building in my garden railroad that the weather has caused it to fall apart. Rather than just fix it, I think I'd like to scan the building walls and roof, IE 4 walls and 2 roof sections, disassembled. That will be 6 scans of objects that are 1/4" thick and 8" x 16" max.
Since the building is 1:24 scale but my garden trains are 1:20 scale, I want to scale all the parts up, so the 8" by 16" wall will become 9.6" by 19.2". That seems easy to do in Designer.
However, the original model was "selectively compressed". That is, some windows in the original structure were eliminated from the model and some walls were shortened to make the model smaller so it would fit on basement train layouts. Since my garden railroad is outdoors, I'd like to extensively edit the walls so the model is not only the correct scale, but also an accurate model of the original building. I'll have to add some windows, lengthen walls and change the roof and it's pitch. I would feel much better using my graphic editor to do that and re-importing the edited wall greyscales back into designer.
Two questions:
1. How do I export the scanned building components? IE save them to a file as .bmp. png or .gif. so I can edit them using my preferred graphic program.
2. Other than building a scanning sled ( got the parts from home depot yesterday) and watching the excellent video posted by Michael T three more times, does anyone have any suggestions, hints, or things to watch out for?
BoB
Since I've only had my carver a couple weeks, I ended up using most my weekend carving projects I had drawn using my favorite picture editor. I learned a lot, and actually got a couple useful carvings, but the weekend was short, and I did not get to try my new probe.
Now, I'm planing my next adventure for this coming weekend.
I have a 1:24 scale building in my garden railroad that the weather has caused it to fall apart. Rather than just fix it, I think I'd like to scan the building walls and roof, IE 4 walls and 2 roof sections, disassembled. That will be 6 scans of objects that are 1/4" thick and 8" x 16" max.
Since the building is 1:24 scale but my garden trains are 1:20 scale, I want to scale all the parts up, so the 8" by 16" wall will become 9.6" by 19.2". That seems easy to do in Designer.
However, the original model was "selectively compressed". That is, some windows in the original structure were eliminated from the model and some walls were shortened to make the model smaller so it would fit on basement train layouts. Since my garden railroad is outdoors, I'd like to extensively edit the walls so the model is not only the correct scale, but also an accurate model of the original building. I'll have to add some windows, lengthen walls and change the roof and it's pitch. I would feel much better using my graphic editor to do that and re-importing the edited wall greyscales back into designer.
Two questions:
1. How do I export the scanned building components? IE save them to a file as .bmp. png or .gif. so I can edit them using my preferred graphic program.
2. Other than building a scanning sled ( got the parts from home depot yesterday) and watching the excellent video posted by Michael T three more times, does anyone have any suggestions, hints, or things to watch out for?
BoB