The application of 3D scanner technology among industrial practitioner in Indonesia and Malaysia is still at the beginning stage. Compared to others, this technology has already been adapted mostly by growing country such as China, Korea, US, Germany and Italy. This technology can be seen implemented in manufacturing, aerospace, medical and dentistry industries. The concept of 3D scanner technology is mainly to improve the reverse engineering process. Due to the high cost of 3D scanner machine available in the market, therefore a reasonable cost-effective 3D scanner is needed to be developed especially for education purposes. The objective of this project is to develop low-cost 3D scanning setup to create a mesh of a small-scale object with the help of open-sources software for 3D scanning and 3D mesh processing. Triangulation technique was used for the scanning process to capture the object surface. Screened Poisson Surface Reconstruction techniques was applied to improve the uncomplete and uneven surface mesh. In order to test the setup, 3D scanning was conducted on 4 different objects with different colours and surface finish. The scanning results show that the proposed method produced a good 3D mesh with less noise and less uncomplete surface.
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