Quote Originally Posted by bergerud View Post
If I remember, Bud used to do rotary scans with Ed Baker's rotary jig. I have not really thought too much about it or tried it, but , it seems to me that one could just use the rotary jig to scan rotary objects. How would the machine know the difference? Something that just has to be tried.

Now that I have a second to think about it, there will be a scaling problem in the x direction. If the rotary object has a different radius than the rotary drive wheel, the x will not be scaled right. I suppose one just has to correct that later. Give it a try and report!
I was thinking of just adding a short piece of round stock on each end of the piece so that would be the reference for x.
May build one so I can scan on one machine whilst the other is carving.