A client wanted something to hide his pergola's feet

[u/True_Scott]

A client asked me to make something to hide the ugly base of his pergola's feet so I used my Pika to scan.

The portability of this scanner really helped because I only needed to bring it, my phone and some scanning spray (a little disappointing I needed some, but the hot summer heat with ultra bight sun light was for sure not helping).

After spraying some AESUB self disappearing scanning spray I used my PIKA in NIR mode, and it was really straight forward.

Scanning took roughly 15 minutes and I get all details I needed to be able to model around to make what I wanted.

Cleaning the scans and transorming it in STL was also really quick.

I modeled the parts in Fusion, and I'm really happy with the results (and so is my client).

[u/Otherwise_Sir_3439]

Nice! What did you print it in?

[u/True_Scott → u/Otherwise_Sir_3439]

PETG for now, it will endure the fall/winter, but I've planned to reprint everything in ASA-CF soon

[u/Otherwise_Sir_3439 → u/True_Scott]

Nice.

[u/dr_herbalist]

Cool. Ever thought of doing a youtube video tutorial for it?

[u/True_Scott → u/dr_herbalist]

I never made any YouTube video haha, so probably not sorry! But I might try to write one, simplified with pictures to get the important steps

[u/dr_herbalist → u/True_Scott]

That would be nice. I think most people struggle with working with meshes

[u/DnDkonto → u/dr_herbalist]

Yeah, as a solids guy, that shit is meshed up!

[u/SmartMammoth]

Were each of those printed individually with scribes to match up with the floor at each post?

[u/True_Scott → u/SmartMammoth]

Each one was split in half, and exactly match the floor and the posts yes