@curious aardvark : I kinda see the scanner and software as a two sides of the same product. I look at it from the end result point of view and expect to use the hardware with the software provided before I go shopping for 3rd party improvements. Trying to find out to what point my purchase gets me before I get the chisel out Also, I'm not sure that most scanners in the lower price range can really scan 0.1mm. Why would all the scans look so blobby? Or is that a result of some kind of noise reduction?

Hugues, Bobby Lin, dklassen: You seem happy with your scanners. What kinds of things are you guys scanning?