3D Scan Cleaner for Blender

3D Scan Cleaner for Blender

3D Scan Cleaner for Blender

The Ultimate Photogrammetry Cleanup Tool

Versions:  v1.0

Download the 3D Scan Cleaner addon today. Therefore, you can clean messy scans instantly. Because photogrammetry often creates noisy meshes, you need proper tools. However, manual cleanup takes many hours. Consequently, this powerful addon solves that problem completely. Furthermore, it provides a one-click workflow. Thus, you can prepare scans for production in minutes.

Automated Mesh Repair

First, the core of this addon is automation. Specifically, it detects and removes floating artifacts. Furthermore, you can fill deep mesh holes easily. Additionally, the tool rebuilds broken normals seamlessly. Thus, you can fix endless scanning errors quickly. Moreover, you can merge overlapping vertices automatically. Consequently, your 3D scans will look highly professional.

Advanced Decimation and Smoothing

Ultimately, raw scans require heavy geometry reduction. Therefore, this addon includes smart decimation tools. Specifically, you get adaptive mesh reduction features. Furthermore, the smoothing algorithms preserve sharp edges perfectly. Additionally, the tools simulate clean, optimized topology. Consequently, your models will look incredibly refined. Thus, the meshes react beautifully to game engines.

Real-Time Optimization and Performance

However, high-poly scans can slow down your viewport. Therefore, the addon is perfectly optimized for performance. Specifically, it utilizes Blender’s efficient modifier stack. Consequently, you can process millions of polygons easily. Meanwhile, your viewport frame rate remains completely stable. Ultimately, this ensures a smooth and fast workflow.

Perfect for Environment Artists

Additionally, this addon is ideal for environment modelers. Furthermore, it suits 3D printing enthusiasts and creators. Moreover, game developers will love the rapid cleanup. Ultimately, it accelerates your entire photogrammetry production pipeline.

System Requirements and Formats

Specifically, the addon requires Blender 3.6 or newer. Furthermore, it supports both Cycles and Eevee render engines. Additionally, you get regular free updates from the developer. Therefore, it works perfectly across all major operating systems. Moreover, you will need a standard workstation. Thus, 16GB of RAM is highly recommended. Consequently, a modern GPU ensures smooth viewport playback.

Installation and Usage Guide

First, download the zip file from your library. Next, open Blender and go to Edit Preferences. Then, select Add-ons and click Install. After that, enable the 3D Scan Cleaner addon. Finally, select your messy scan and click Clean. Thus, your optimized mesh will be ready quickly.

What is Included Inside?

Specifically, the pack contains multiple automated cleanup presets. Furthermore, it includes smart hole-filling algorithms. Additionally, you get several adaptive decimation variants. Moreover, there are detailed video tutorial guides. Ultimately, you receive everything for professional scan preparation.

Final Thoughts on the Addon

Ultimately, clean geometry evokes profound professional quality. Therefore, this addon provides the ultimate creative foundation. Furthermore, you can build detailed game assets. Alternatively, you can create smooth 3D printing models. Consequently, your photogrammetry vision becomes a stunning reality.

Cleaning your 3D Scans is a necessary process for saving resources in your computer (it will save more than 80% of memory save in some casses), but it takes a long time, escpecially when you have large collections of them.

This Add-On will help you in this process, and, instead of taking an averay of 5 mins per scan, you will make it in a couple of clicks.

In this YouTube vide you will find a little preview of how this Add-On works:

• HOW TO INSTALL IT:

First of all, it only works for Blender 3.1 or higher, so if you have an older version it will NOT work.

Then, download the file. Then, inside Blender, go to Edit -> Preferences -> Add- Ons -> Install and search for the ZIP file that I provided you. For activating you can search for it in in the Add-On menu (is called 3D Scan ).

Now you can press N on your keyborad and you will see it on the Panel on the right.

• HOW TO USE:

Click on the 3D scan that you want to optimize and click on Clean Geometry. Now you will see a Menu like the following one.

CLEAN GEOMETRY:

• Decimate Ratio: how much geometry is simplified, go as low as you can without noticeable changes in your object
• Floor Height: from 0 to 1 how much vertical geometry you want to delete. This parameter is useful for deleting the ground that normally comes with your scans.
• X/Y Cut: they work the same than floor height but with the X and Y axes

Once that you are done you can check how much memory you are saving, around 80% should be fine. If you want to APPLY this changes in your Mesh click on Apply (once applied you will need to import the object again if you want all the original geometry). APPLY will decimate, delete the floor and XY sides and also delete extra mesh islands.

You can also RESET to delete the modifiers.

Floor and XY Cut removed

Detection of extra MeshIslands

Decimate process

FIX TEXTURE:

This Tool helps you to fix spots where the textures are streched or missing (very common specially on places where we didn’t put enough attention while 3Dscanning)

The Texture Paint viewer will be opened with the Cloner tool selected (I recommend you to don’t be in render view when you do this so you avoid problems with real time updating).

Place the 3D cursor (ALT+RMC) in a place where the texture is nice and detaided. Now paint over the desired place where the texuture is wrong and the texture lcocated next to the 3D will be copied there (I recommend you to don’t place the 3D cursor to far).

DON’T FORGET TO SAVE THE IMAGE WHEN YOU ARE DONE!!

INSTANCE GEOMETRY:

Once than you are done with cleaning the goemetry and the fixing the textures (if needed) , maybe you wanna reuse your scan in your scene. Copying and pasting or duplicating will generete more data and will ocasionally crash Blender. Instancing instead will be free of charge.

You can also randomize the instance to avoid repetition.

• LAUNCH DEAL:

Until the 10-10-22 I’ll include with no extra charge 6 historical high quality and optimized 3D scans that I took in Creta (Greece). Feel welcome to use them in your projects 🙂

• FINAL THOUGHTS

When I was developing this Add-On my prioirity was to make it user friendly and efficient, so please let me know if you have any type or problem or you think that can be improved in some kind of way.

Because of its complexity, I missed a delighting and remeshing process, but maybe future versions of this Add-On will include it. I’ll work on it.

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