hey #measuringhero, Jay here. Today's task is to make a larger version of this guy, but in order to do so
we have to start with making a digital copy. So we thought we'd come to Braunschweig
to visit our friends at HandsOnMetrology to give us a hand.
Okay so we're here to talk to Norman and I think he's here. So, Norman hi, thanks for joining us.
We appreciate it. Hey we have a task, to make a digital copy of a small figurine and I understand
that y'all at HandsOnMetrology are the absolute pros at that. So, can you guys give us a hand?
Yeah, I have some ideas so let me show you some things. Just follow me. Perfect, perfect thank you so much!
So Jay as you may know we have a great combined portfolio of ZEISS and GOM. So for instance we
have here the T-SCAN hawk which is a very mobile system. So you can just bring the sensor to where
your task is. But speaking of a task, what actually is our task today? Today what I want to do is make
a digital copy of this little guy. This is pretty small, so it has a high amount of detail but I have
an idea how to do it. So just take the right sensor for the right task. So follow me again. Okay great!
So Jay, since your part is very small here and you want to have a 3D-Scan, let's talk about the newest
member of our family it's the ZEISS GOM Scan 1. It is a 3D-Scanner which actually comes in
three versions. It has a measurement volume of 100 millimeters 200 and 400. Okay! And we want
to have the smallest one of course here so would you place this on the rotation table, while I am
wiring up our system here okay. So the 100,200 and 400 refer to?
It's the size of the measurement volume actually so you can imagine it's a
volume and inside this volume you can create 3D points. And that's why 3D information small part is
the smallest volume. Yeah, so we have a high amount of detail so we can use every bit of accuracy we can have.
Perfect, perfect. How hard is it to wire? Oh i'm finished already, so it's just plugging
in and you're ready to go. Already, okay awesome! Oh yeah, I just have to connect to the software
with a click of a mouse button and we're ready to scan. All right let's have a look.
Oh yeah there's already an image. Yeah this is the image from the camera and I will say
I will just start measuring. So I already clicked. So we're measuring already.
Oh, no kidding? Wow that's fast. So what's the process of having to make the copy?
So we just place the object, hit the start button. The software is doing
some things automatically like you can see here the back of our model. So let's zoom in a bit.
You see some parts of the rotation table but we do not want to have the rotation table, but the
software is automatically cutting this out. Turning the object, measure again, turning the object again.
Automatically doing all of that, so our job is to watch it work. Exactly!
We have to wait a bit but you can actually see what we're doing. So this is the back of your figure
and you're seeing here with every measurement there is coming a bit more of the figure
to the model, yes. But as you said we just have to wait until it's finished and then we can see
what comes out of it. That's a really cool tool, I mean it's super easy to use,
sounds like it's even something I could do. Yeah everyone can do this of course. Yes it's not that hard.
So I think this should be the last measurement and then we can have a look at what comes out.
Perfect, it from here it already looks great. You may have noticed I did not do too much so
you could have some some options like elimination times or distances or whatever
but I did not set anything it's all done automatically
Just let it do its thing. Yes perfect, so we have an automatism for everything.
So the scan is finished. Already? Wanna have a look at the finished part? Yeah.
So actually this is the digital copy that you wanted to have. So let's look around a bit
this is fully data, already so we can zoom in a bit. We can even show you the the amount of detail
we achieved here. Just change the the display version here to a mesh structure and we can
see all the 3D points that are meshed together here. Wow yeah, that is a lot of detail in there.
Yes so we're finished your digital copy. What's the challenge? Oh yeah, actually what I wanted to do
with this digital copy was send it to a 3D printer and make a bigger 3D print a bigger copy of it.
I see the challenge. So we have a 3D printer over here, so do you want me to just send this to
the department. You can just do that? Of course I can. So let me just send this away.
Did you know that we actually can do this in color? Color like that?
So let me just show you. Okay. So let me just get away with the mesh structure over here.
And what you could do of course is just change the color of the surface. No just kidding
that's not what I wanted to show you. What I wanted to show you is, making this colorful
may you just take some images with your smartphone. Sure! Just from some angles
so we can import these photographs
just take a picture? Just take some pictures. All right there's one
okay
got some pictures. And the idea is actually to get the information from your smartphone photos
onto the surface of the mesh. Okey! So you see we have the photos over here and with a software
function that is actually just giving you the information that could look like this one.
Oh wow, so that's the photo color information and it's stitched to the mesh we have still 3D data
just in the color of your real part. Wow, wow! And that's the magic. What can you do with a file like this?
okay with your file here in particular maybe you could use it in a video game maybe, I don't know
but the technique itself it could maybe be used for archaeology so if you have some
some rocks from under the earth yeah and you want to share it with your
colleagues worldwide you could just make a scan stitch the photo information on the surface
and digitally share this with your colleagues. Or like an archive, digital archive. Yes, exactly
this could be the idea. Some really cool applications for that. That's a cool feature I would have
never imagined that was possible. Can we have a look and see how our print's going? yes of course.
Norman. Hi Jay, I think you help yourself. Yeah the coffee is amazing here so I just went ahead and
got some. Thank you, thank you. So we just saw the the digital copy and now
you have your physical copy. Oh my gosh, so cool! and of course and that's why you're here you have
your great physical oh that's so amazing. My son is absolutely gonna freak out when he sees that!
thank you so much for not only uh doing this for us but also showing me just how easy it is
to actually go through the process of making it. You're very welcome! Appreciate it, can we come
back another time and maybe explore a new topic? yes of course, I think we have always something
to show, so you're very invited to come back. That would be amazing thank you, appreciate it
and for you out there if there's anything that you would like us to try and tackle
don't forget to leave a comment in the section below and we'll do the best we can
but for now don't forget to stay safe, stay healthy. We'll see you next thursday!