OpenSCAD can import any STL file and it can be used in operations against your model.įrom here you are ready to model. I then exported the mesh as STL format and brought it into my preferred modelling tool, OpenSCAD.
I took pictures while moving the camera laterally to catch various angles.
This picture is one of about 20 that I quickly snapped with my camera (another GoPro). It points down through a hole in the wing. Here you can see the area in the wing of my plane where the GoPro will sit.
#Pix4dmapper stl software
Here I’ll show you how I used my camera, and a great bit of software called Pix4D, to quickly and easily reconstruct a 3D model I could import into OpenSCAD and use as a template for designing my new part quickly and easily. This time I decided to try a completely different workflow involving photogrammetric 3d reconstruction, which worked wonderfully, and will be my new method for these scenarios going forward. Typically I would do this by taking a large number of measurements using a ruler or calipers, and then designing the part based on those measurements. While constructing a new fixed wing drone I needed to design and 3d print a small mount for a GoPro action camera.