SCANYTHING

[cindy carlisle]

Les you are awesome! What are some of the issues you have found in beta testing?

http://sheetcam.com/Scanything/index

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wlb6wgCgbY

http://sheetcam.com/Scanything/downloads

Very cool

[Metriccar]

Is there a way to get this to work with PlasmaCAM? I'm guessing not but just had to ask.

[SeanP]

Think it's about time I looked into getting setup with this after spending ages with this job today, a few mins cutting, feckin ages drawing

Can it be used to scan a outline on paper? for the jobs that won't go in the scanner, I get by taking a photo and scaling then drawing over the sketch, but it's slow, especially when you enter the wrong scale measurement

[kkroger]

Posted this in another thread... but here you go. I have done Sharpie Drawings, Pencil Drawings etc. as long as it is a clean line it will do fine.

Scanything is not FREE but the license is not astronomical either, It works QUITE well. I have been using it for a while the Camera I have is a Supereyes B005 and it works perfectly and is about $27 shipped on Amazon.

I was told by Matt at Burntables when I was shopping around the tracer tech was not a scanner but works more like a coordinate measuring machine... though the video appears to depict it as a "Scanner"

with Scanything I can scan anything that will fit on my table, I have done several items for clients that way as well. Lighting and reflectivity is important for it to pick up the edge. I used in a former job OGP Optical measuring machines and this edge finds in a similar fashion. if the lighting or reflection of the material is different it will not find the edge correctly but I have taken Shiny painted items layed them on a fresh sheet of steel.
Drawn around them with a pencil and scanned the pencil line with zero issue. Just make sure your focus is good to go, and it works with Tom's Ethercut like new money, but if you are using a USB jog box you may have a conflict with THAT. Tom's RS485 jog box would not be an issue.

Here is a video of scanning a cocacola logo right off a 12 pack box.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufJ20zdSzjE
Resultant .DXF
Now the missing cutout in the loop is my fault not the software you DO have to take it to the Edges that you want to trace. I skipped that because I was just playing and I left out the second O as well In CAD I went back and copied the interior of the first O and inserted it in the second O just because....

And the resulting routed design in a scrap of Plywood.

[SeanP]

Thanks for the info, looks good.
By the way if you have a old pc hard drive lying around the magnets make a great pickup device I have bonded a few on separate sticks with likes of tiger seal/stixall, great for catching parts, (was looking at your other vids)