check out this sculpture it's something
i made with a buddy of mine a few years
ago it's supposed to be
a toad made out of old bike parts and
bike tires and
rusty metal and random bits and pieces
and i love it it sits in the woods over
here on my property and just reminds me
of a really good time
unfortunately it's rusting away and
falling apart
and looking even worse than it ever has
and i'd like to find a way to digitally
preserve this maybe 3d scan it or
something like that possibly even 3d
print it
and that's where today's sponsor prusa
3d comes in
i'm going to learn how to make a replica
of this
today if you're not familiar with prusa
they produce
3d printers like these three here but
not just that they're actually
super active in the community they have
weekly community meetups they have a
file repository online where you can
find files
to 3d print and they have a youtube
channel just
chalked full of super detailed high
quality
video tutorial to take your 3d printing
to the next level
on a personal note they produce the
printer that is my
absolute favorite even though it is not
their latest and greatest and newest
technology
the prusa i3 mark 3s has been the
workhorse that has
so far never failed me and you're going
to see it in action very soon
while researching how to 3d scan things
for this sculpture one of the tutorials
i found was the one on
prusa's youtube channel and it was the
clearest most informative one i found
and it's the one i keep
going back to when i want to try out
this method they've actually done two
they've done the original and they've
come back to revisit it
and give more details and the method
we're going to use today is called
photogrammetry and that's where you take
a whole bunch of photos around an object
at different angles and then you feed
those into a computer and let it do
fancy math to figure out the model from
there
so like i said you have to take a lot of
photos
i took so many photos of this model and
you really want to do it on a day
that you don't have super harsh shadows
so like an
overcast day or you know early in the
morning or something like that before
the sun
really starts beaming down on you
after you have your tons of images we're
going to feed them into software called
meshroom there are a lot of options and
things to tweak and change here
and you should really refer to the
tutorial on prusa's channel to see how
that works
and once you've got it all in meshroom
all you have to do is hit the button to
go and then you can go take a nap
or play with your goats
once mushroom is finished with your file
you can clean it up a bit
in the program of your choice for
example i use
mesh mixer to delete the stuff around
the model all this extraneous
information here and then it's ready to
3d print
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while you're watching this beautiful
time lapse in motion
i want to encourage you to check out
perusa's youtube channel it's just
packed full of tutorials
and different videos teaching you how to
use your 3d printer better
they'll improve your skills on on
settings to get prettier prints
how to create models in different ways
and even how to set up this
beautiful time lapse rig just look at
this
i am so excited with how these turned
out i
i realize this sculpture isn't
necessarily
the most amazing sculpture to look at
but it's important to me
and it turns out it's actually kind of a
difficult
sculpture to both scan and print you see
there's all these
very thin little areas that were
difficult to scan
in the photos and lots of little holes
but the software did
admirably and then when it comes to 3d
printing there's all kinds of overhangs
and places where i really thought i was
going to need support material but
this printer is a trooper and it just
spit it out
as you saw no support material needed
it really is impressive what these
printers can do
if you'd like to give a try printing
this on your own i've uploaded the file
to prusa printers which is their
online repository of cool stuff to print
you don't have to have a prusa 3d
printer to use it
it's just another place where you can
find awesome stuff to print
so there will be a link below and you
can try printing this sucker if you want
thanks for joining me today i hope you
learned something and enjoyed it i
strongly encourage you to go check out
prusa's youtube channel and really
upgrade your skills
and just to address this because i know
that people are going to ask
no i can't 3d scan the goats this way
i've tried they won't stay still long
enough i'm going to have to find
another method i'll see you next time be
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