The Scan-Cube is your own personal little companion cube in the world of 3D-scanning.

Usage
The Scan-Cube is meant to be scanned in one go, with bottom facing down, and no merging of several scans allowed.

Description

It’s a 40 mm cube shaped object that you can utilize to practice your hand held scanning techniques and improve your overall performance and gain more experience of 3D-scanning.

The features on the scan-cube will help to showcase the total combination of 3D-scanner hardware performance, software performance and user performance.

Here are some examples of how it can be used:

* To practice your skills of using your 3D-scanner.
* To test performance of different marker rigs and setups.
* To test scanning performance of different ways of tracking an object with your scanner (geometry, texture, marker etc).
* To test settings when it comes to laser brightness and IR exposure.
* To test how different post-processing settings affect the final result on the geometries.
* To compare the performance of different size modes of your 3D-scanner.
* To check settings for scanning bright/medium/dark objects with your 3D-scanner
* To compare the performance of your different 3D-scanners if you own more than one.

Here are some examples of what not to use the Scan-Cube for:

* Do not use it to compare performance against another person’s 3D-scanner.

On the bottom, there is a female MMT-thread allowing it to be positioned on top of a MMT-tower.
The scan-cube should be raised of the mounting surface to be able to reach the hard to reach areas.
 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The dimensional accuracy of the 3D-printed part to the 3D-file is meant to be irrelevant for this item.
This is why I do not post any drawing with nominal dimension value of the different features.

You are not looking to compare it to the perfect accuracy of the 3D-file, since no 3D-printer can replicate it 100% accurately.

Instead, you print it on your own 3D-printer, and then if you want to you can compare the scans to the actual measured result of your own cube, with for example a calibrated caliper or micrometer gauge.
 

Successfully capturing the features correctly at all can be difficult with scanners, so meant as a training aid to make users aware of that you cant except a great result by for example just using a scanner on a turntable, you have to practice rotating the scanner around its own axis in space for some features during scanning to capture the features well enough to even be able to measure them.