3D scanning

this week we started with 3d scanning, i strated with the Kinect camera and was extrimely suprised how easy is to make a 3d scan using the dept camera of the Kinect Skanect program, 10 min, a swivel chair and i have a mash of my face in 3d!

After saving the STL file from skanect i imported it to Rhaino and was about to send it to CURA to print it on the 3d printer but as i liked the wireframe lines of the model i decided to try to print it directly like this and not as a solid mash of my face. For doing that i need to extact the wireframe in Rehino using the commannd ¨ExtractWireframe¨ and then using the command ¨pipe¨for converting all those line to individual mash each one, the first result was a bit funny as i put the pipes of 0.2 milimiters and as a result i looked like santa claus :)
in the second time i tried 0.002 milimeters and got a fair solid wireframe of my face.

CURA and 3d printing

I improrted the file directly to cura and noticed that in the original size the wireframe lines are too thin and the printer couldnt even accept this work. by scaling the model the lines got more thick and cura accept the model for print. by checking the layers and been told by other class mate who are more expririence in 3d printing i understood that the wireframes lines are still very thin and and the model wouldnt print well.
I decided to go forwartd with this print and ajuested the setting and sent it to the machine as a *.gcode file, the estimated time was 12 hours by cura and for this reason i left it all night long to work. 18 hours later when coming back to the printers room i found this:
this was a good lesson and i have studied that i cant trust the time production in the Cura program, from 12 hours expected in reality it needed around 30 hours to finish printing m model. Thinking on my class mate who was in line to print i decided to stop the machine and keep my head open :) here is the result: