Skanect by Manctl

Skanect 1.4: updated UI, faster CPU fusion, bug fixes

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:04:03 +0000

We are excited to announce a new release of Skanect, which includes many fixes, a reworked scanning feedback, a faster and more accurate CPU fusion and more robust tracking with failure detection and recovery.

Here is the complete list of changes:

Make the feedback window full-screen during scanning
Much faster CPU fusion, with improved accuracy
Tracking failure detection and recovery
Space bar shortcut to toggle recording
Pro/Free features clarification
Fix STL export
Support for Asus Xtion Pro (depth only)
Support for non-cubic bounding boxes
Support for custom intrinsics parameters
Fix hiccups with some Primesense cameras
Use local time for generated scan folders
Fix default color rendering when uploading to Sketchfab

Great scans by Crowdtrees Studio!

admin — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:58:20 +0000

Crowdtrees Studio have been scanning a lot of people in events, check out their facebook page to see some great scans!

Skanect 1.3: CPU fusion

admin — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:06:10 +0000

We are happy to announce a new release of Skanect, which now includes a CPU fallback of the fusion when a compatible graphics card is not available. While slower than GPU fusion, it can still be used in real-time with recent multicore machines, and enables full quality offline reconstruction on all computers!

Here is the complete list of changes:

CPU fusion
Support for Kinect for Windows SDK 1.7
Better automatic calibration of the sensors.
Minimal distance of 50 cm instead of 80 cm for Xbox Kinect when using the Kinect for Windows SDK.

Skanect 1.2.1: bug fixes

admin — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:38:30 +0000

We’ve just released a bug fix release:
* Colorize should not crash anymore on big scans.
* Exported meshes in the free version should now have proper per-vertex colors.

Thanks for your bug reports!

Skanect 1.2: OpenNI2 support

admin — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:37:12 +0000

We are pleased to announce a new update of Skanect, which now supports OpenNI2. This makes it easier to use OpenNI compatible devices, and in particular the new Primesense Carmine 09. With a minimal distance of 30cm, and a sub-millimetric…

Skanect featured on NPR

admin — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:05:40 +0000

NPR did a story about 3D printing and scanning in their morning edition of “All Tech Considered”. We had a lot of fun scanning their correspondent in Madrid, sending them the 3D model, and see the 3D printed result in San Francisco.

You can read the full story on NPR website.

Here is the model of their correspondent, thanks Lauren for playing the game!

Nice tutorial by Virtumake

admin — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:58:41 +0000

Virtumake did a very nice tutorial for Skanect 1.0, many thanks!

Click here to view the embedded video.

Skanect 1.1: plane cut and more exports

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:44:56 +0000

First, we would like to thank the many people who gave us very useful feedback. We listened, and we are pleased to announce a new update, with the following improvements:

New plane cut feature to create clean object bases (see video below).
STL and OBJ exports.
Support for XBox Kinect with Kinect for Windows SDK.
New status tab to with better GPU and sensor error messages.
Various bug fixes.

Minor update to fix GPU issues

admin — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:54:23 +0000

We have just released Skanect 1.0.1, which fixes some issues with older GPU. Also, please make sure you have the latest drivers for your NVidia graphics card. If you still have issues, please send your log file (Settings / Open…

Skanect 1.0 is out!

admin — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:15 +0000

We are very happy to announce a new version of Skanect. This is a major improvement over the previous 0.2 release, which include much better real-time scanning, coloring and post-processing tools to create nice models. Skanect can now generate models suitable for 3d printing, and the free version can be used with Sculpteo to create fully customized objects in minutes!

Check out our new homepage video for an overview, meanwhile you can see some new models we acquired during CES 2013 below.