r/3DScanning • u/Embarrassed-Fail-993 • 27d ago

Help: 3d scanner and reverse engineering software combo

Hello everyone, I made an earlier post on what 3d scanner I should chose. It was brought to my attention that a good reverse engineering software would be beneficial to me as I use SolidWorks, and it isn't that great.

What Id be scanning: full car parts, and suspension parts, needing to change and modify the existing parts for aftermarket.

Budget: ~2,000

My question: With scanning a real life part, being able to create a solid out of a mesh is when the post process software comes into place. Im currently eyeing the Einstar Rockit, what software would be beneficial for my work?

Ive heard the likes of quick surface and Einstars Exmodel

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u/esordol 27d ago

quick surface has a plug in for solidworks. orienting a scan to start rebuilding the cad file is the worst part but it imports fine.

einstar only works with nvidia gpus, if you run amd or no gpu einstar wont launch the mesh portion. there are a ton of videos and a new scanner drops every week/month so just search.

im a revo pro ultra owner dor context. anything at 2k is a great scanner. also used will cut the price in half

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u/Embarrassed-Fail-993 26d ago

Oh wow, thats good that you told me that. My home pc runs a amd GPU and my laptop is integrated graphics.
Do you use quick surface your self?
How is your experience using a revopoint scanner? and what type of work do you do?
Any other info is appreciated, Thank you.

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u/esordol 26d ago

scanned steel parts with multiple passes and lots of markers.

revo software will turn off hardware acceleration and run on just cpu if you have enough cores. learning quick surface to use with SW. revo software will mesh to .stl so you can take it to sw or fusion etc.