Having problems scanning my 2nd part

[Hugues]

Success !

Definitely overlapping at least 1/3 with the new scan area is helping a lot, as advised by Shining 3D in another thread.

I managed to free scan a part on my bike, about 400mm by 400mm, low or medium detail setting, i forgot to check, but not high setting.

I used around 20 scans maybe, it took me around 1 hour, most worked with automatic alignment, except for one tricky part on the left side, i had to manually align, but despite this the system did not manage to align the part, so i deleted that last scan and came back to this problematic area from another side.

And the dimensions are pretty good, measured 347 mm between 2 screws, reality is pretty much 347mm, +/- 0.5 mm maybe.

Cool ! scan can be seen here, 25 meg only stl file:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:913581

Now, one cool new function would be to be able to stop a scanning session, save it (in whatever internal format you use) then re-open it later and continue the scan. This way we could scan quite large parts, like my whole bike :-)