DIY and Entry-Level 3D-Scanner Forum

Scenect is a powerful Software that lets you create and manage 3D pointclouds. It was developed for professional 3D scanners that scan whole houses or other big structures. The company who developed the software, Faro, opened Senect for Kinect scammers.

This is a little experiment, I did with Scenect and my Asus Xtion Pro scanner. It shows, how to scan the complex structure of he staircase in my house.

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Bernhard
www.virtumake.com

Having played with this software, do you find the Scenect is noticeably better or worse than Artec, ReMe, or Skanect for certain given tasks? Where does it shine, and where does it fail?

I think Scenect is the best tool for scanning rooms and large structures. However, you do not get a 3D mesh from it, just a point cloud. Therefore, it is not the best software, if you would like to scan people or objects.

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Bernhard
www.virtumake.com

Hi, I was wondering whether SCENECT would be suitable for making measurements of a room? Would I then need to utilise a different software package to analyse the data further?

I'm looking into some research on using Kinect to map indoor spaces (even though it's been done before). I want to compare the results to a laser scanner for example. Would you have any suggestions for some software that would help with this if SCENECT doesn't have that capability? Hopefully nothing too difficult to operate, because my programming skills are terrible!

Thanks,
Luisa

Hello,
Thanks for you forum, it's really cool.
I'm very interest with the possibility to scan with a kinect. In your vidéo you connect a kinect to you pc. But hox do you do that ? i buy a kinect for xbox 360. There is no usb (pc) connector. And in the web i can buy an adaptator but there is a power to connect and i can walk in a big room with the cable connect on AC/DC power.
have you and idea ? wath sort of kinect do you use because on your video she don't look like mine.
Sorry for my poor english (i'm just french and for my newbye question. Thank for your answer.

A little up,please

he use an Asus Xtion Pro scanner

in french (more info) :
Il utilise un scanner "professionnel" qui ne nécessite pas d'alim supplémentaire
je ne sais pas si la kinect xbox peut se passer de l'alim supplémentaire, je vais regarder mais c'est surement possible de se bricoler une alim 12v portable pour
la rendre autonome. Sinon l'Asus Xtion et la primesens sont juste alimentées avec l'usb