Skanect Pro

Skanect Pro is a highly accurate and reliable 3D object scanning application that allows students, researchers, game developers, home users, hobbyist, and other professionals to easily capture and transform the smallest details of real objects into 3D objects that can be exported for later use in other 3D editing apps. Even better Skanect can even capture the color of your target object (thus saving time and resources needed to artificially color it from scratch). One of the most consumer-friendly features of this app is its ability to work with affordable low-cost camera systems such as Structure Sensor, Structure Core, Microsoft Kinect, or ASUS Xtion cameras and transform them into low-cost 3D scanning devices that can create realistic and accurate 3D models for you in minutes. Because of all of its benefits, the app has quickly managed to become a software of choice for developers and researchers who want quickly and cheaply to establish their own private 3D-scanning service.

In stark difference to other professional 3D-scanning systems and software packages, the tool can successfully capture accurate 3D meshes by using pre-existing low-cost camera systems by focusing on a procedure that requires constant rotation of target objects. It will simply capture the video feed in 30 frames per second while the object is slowly rotating, and thanks to powerful algorithms it is able to quickly detect changes in objects structure from multiple viewpoints and create a real-time 3D representation.

Because of its fast mode of action and ease of setup, Skanect can be reliably used even by users who don’t have professional 3D modeler training. To streamline 3D object capture and management, developers of the software have even implemented the feature where anyone can set up their camera system, scan an object, and export/share it in minutes, and all of that with just a few clicks!

While the Skannect Pro can be purchased under a permanent premium license, home users and hobbyists can download a FREE version of the app that is optimized for non-commercial use (for example, the export feature will restrict polygon count to 5K). The app developers also offer purchase of the software that is bundled with several affordable compatible camera systems.

Installation and Use

Both free and Skanect Pro version of the app is distributed to the users via a small installation package that weighs just around 25MB. After a quick and uneventful installation procedure, the app will want to immediately detect if your work PC has access to a compatible camera system. The user interface of the app is simple and easy to use, with capture procedure requiring you to take close attention to five separate stages of capture. Those stages are represented as five tabs – Prepare, Record, Reconstruct, Process, and finally Share.

Minimal PC configuration for reliable use of the tool asks for quadcore CPU with 2GB of RAM memory, compatible video card with at last 1GB of video memory, Windows 7, or later. Stronger CPU, more RAM memory, and faster GPU are recommended for handling larger and more complex objects, as well as for faster 3D mesh capture and processing.

Features and Highlights

• A quick and affordable way to capture a full-color 3D model of an object, a person, or a room.
• Take advantage of your low-cost camera systems for reliable 3D model generation.
• Acquire dense 3D information in real-time.
• A streamlined user interface that promotes fast and reliable capture.
• Reduce your costs by taking advantage of your old camera systems.
• Built-in tools for object editing, exporting, and sharing.
• Low hardware requirements.
• Skanect Pro – Perfect software solution for low-cost commercial 3D capture.
• Available for FREE as a non-commercial app download.