Full source code that shows 3D printing from the Microsoft Store and a desktop application.
See how you can load a Unity 3D asset into the Windows 10 3D print dialog, and then repair the model, make simple modifications, and send it to a local 3D printer or an online 3D print service.
Learn several tasks associated with 3D printing and with editing the 3MF file type, such as how to create a 3MF printing package, how to repair a model, and how to launch a 3D print dialog or open a file in the 3D Builder app. Learn about the structure of the 3D Manufacturing Format 3MF file type and how it can be created and manipulated with the Windows. Learn how to add 3D printing functionality to your Windows app, and learn how to launch the 3D print dialog. It seems that any Artec 3D equipment owner should immediately consider upgrading to Artec Studio 16 and take advantage of the new functions and cloud service.Or get the 3D apps and start scanning and building 3D objects. It is also possible Artec could leverage the centralized processing power to provide additional functions they haven’t been able to provide up to now. The cloud service could be updated, expanded, sped up and more, without any intervention of Artec 3D users. There’s more to this: instead of having individual scanner operators buy and occasionally use graphics cards, the cloud service could make much more efficient use of that increasingly hard-to-get hardware. By enabling processing to take place in the cloud, this constraint has been removed and, guess what, your 3D scan processing is sped up again. That last point is very important: 3D scanning very often requires the use of high-powered - and expensive - laptops equipped with fancy graphics cards. With Artec Cloud, users can also process 3D scans in their browser from any location and from any computer, without being constrained by the technical limitations of their devices.” Users can upload and share 3D data with peers, leave comments, send photos, and have full conversations. The integration of AS16 and Artec Cloud streamlines 3D project management. “Artec Cloud (is) a collaborative platform that allows users to access, view, comment on, and process 3D scan data online. This is a cloud-based system that enables a number of interesting new workflows. Using Artec Cloud to collaborate with others on a 3D scan project įor me, the biggest news is the announcement of the new “Artec Cloud”. In addition, there are now primitive objects that can automatically “snap” to your 3D scan to begin the reverse engineering process. Artec 3D has made a number of workflow enhancements to speed this activity.
That’s very good news for those requiring incredibly detailed 3D scans.Īnother feature improvement is the Scan-to-CAD function, where a raw 3D scan is converted into CAD components to reverse engineer an object.
Now, however, Artec 3D said release 16 processes HD mode files “nearly 2x faster”. In my testing of the software, I found HD processing to be the most time-consuming step. This is software-powered feature that somehow squeezes more detail out of a captured 3D scan. That might not seem notable, but it is when considering the size of the files involved.Īrtec Studio 16, as its predecessors, is able to use what Artec 3D calls “HD” mode. It’s therefore quite important to speed up operations because scan processing typically involves “going for coffee”.įor example, in release 16 project files now load 10X faster. Essentially, to get the most detail in a 3D scan you will require processing vast quantities of data collected by the scanning device. This is quite important because of the magnitude of file sizes in 3D scanning. The main theme of release 16 seems to be “speed”, as several functions have been dramatically sped up. Artec Studio 16 performing reverse engineering with Scan-to-CAD