Autocad 123D Catch
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For those of you who haven't tried it, I suggest you have a look at Autocad 123D Catch from http://www.123dapp.com/ It builds a 3D model from a series of photos of an object.
You upload the photos to their web site, it builds the model, which you can then download and save in various formats, including OBJ.
If you install Fluidimporter OBJ importer for Sketchup you can then import the model to Sketchup. The result is mind-blowing.
Fluidimporter is available here: http://www.fluidray.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=10
One word of warning. The supplied example that comes with 123D Catch, namely photos of a statue of Buddha, does not work properly. Various errors occur when trying to upload and process the photos. Here is what I had to do to get it to work:
- Rename all the photos to remove the leading underscore
- Open all the photos in 123D Catch
- Click on Organise Images
- Delete all the individual photos and small groups, leaving just the two big groups of photos
- Compute Photo Scene
- Save as OBJ
- Download and install Fluidimporter
- Start Sketchup
- File/Import (Files of type OBJ) - select saved file
- Voila!
The end result Sketchup file is available from http://www.3dgooglemodels.com.au/buddha.skp
Note that it is 13.5Mb in size, due to the large poly count. I just used the default mesh size, which can be changed in 123D Catch. The only other thing I did was open and re-save the texture file, which shrunk it from 4.5Mb to about 800k.
I also didn't pay too much attention to the size units. Once imported it showed as 20m tall so I resized it in SU to be 20cm tall, but that can be done during the Fluidimporter import I believe.
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At the moment I'm trying 123dcatch again...
I will publish the results
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Have an you image of the Skp result for those who have not a speedy connection or don't want to load the model ?
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OK here's my experience:
I've scanned this little statue with my iphone:
it took an long time and I've got a scan with much parts of the interior surroundings.
I've had to delete all parts arround the figure.I've downloaded the obj to my hardrive.
The import to sketchup was bad many holes and lost geometry. The geometry itself was to highpoly.
So I've used meshmixer to reduce the mesh und meshlab to close the holes.
after that the import to su was OK.
In each case the textures were lost.
Hmm looks promissing but I think I have to improove my skills
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Does anybody has an idea what is the problem with that app?
It has no connection to the server. I am not able to upload any pics
Maybe my iphone is to new? Last app update was 2014!?!
What a mess.
This could be such a usefull app
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Maybe try the desktop version instead?
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