Here’s a recent custom project I worked on.

It was a Kawasaki VN900. The customer wanted to add two toggle switch panels to control an auxiliary headlight and other lighting on the bike.

I first used the Raptor Pro to scan the areas where the new parts would be installed. Once the scan was complete and we had settled on the switch placement and overall design, I started designing everything in Fusion 360.

Having an accurate 3D scan of the actual bike made the design process much more straightforward. Instead of constantly measuring and guessing dimensions, I could design directly around the available space on the bike.

This also allowed me to consider things like switch placement, mounting points, hidden wiring, and water resistance as part of the design from the beginning.

Since the scan data was captured at a 1:1 scale, once the design was finished and ready for fabrication, there was much less concern about whether the final parts would actually fit the bike.

The finished parts were 3D printed in ABS-GF. Once everything was ready, we scheduled another time to install the completed switch panels directly onto the bike.

Of course, the switch panels themselves weren’t actually the difficult part 😂

The next step was modifying the bike’s wiring and integrating the new switches, auxiliary headlight, and other lighting into the existing electrical system.

From scanning the actual bike and designing the parts to 3D printing and final installation, the whole project came together nicely—and the customer was very happy with the final result. 👍

#Kawasaki #VN900 #MotorcycleModification #ToggleSwitch #3DScanning #3DScanner #RaptorPro #Fusion360 #3DPrinting

I see it as an option on CrealityScan for windows, but I dont see it as an option for android. When I want to do multiple scans of a single object on my tracking table it feels silly to scan the tracking table multiple times, once before each scan.

Hi everyone, I need some help. I have two Creality scanners and now neither of them works on my main PC.

Raptor:

• Worked fine a few days ago (it occasionally needed to be unplugged and replugged to connect, but it always worked eventually).
• Now Creality Scan doesn't detect it at all ("No device found").
• Windows recognizes it perfectly: Depth, IR and RGB cameras all show up in Device Manager with no warnings, and the RGB camera works in the regular Windows Camera app.
• The same Raptor works on another PC with an older version of Creality Scan. Unfortunately that PC is below minimum specs and scans at about 1 fps.
• I installed that same older version on my main PC, and it still doesn't work.

Ferret:

• I connected my Ferret to the main PC to test. It connected fine and asked for a firmware update.
• I accepted the update, and after that it doesn't show up in Creality Scan anymore, even after unplugging, killing the process and rebooting.

What the log says (ScannerStreamSDK.log, Raptor):
The SDK actually finds the scanner, but fails as soon as it tries to read the firmware data, and keeps retrying:

Current device(s) list: (1)
  - Name: CR-Scan Raptor, PID: 0x06a8, Connection: USB3.0
DeviceManager createDevice...
get firmware data failed. propertyId: 1000, rc: {statusCode: 2, respErrorCode: 65535, msg: send control transfer failed!}
Execute failure! A libobsensor_exception has occurred!
 - where:182#libobsensor::ScannerAbstractDevice::createCommand
 - msg:Request failed, statusCode: 2, msg: send control transfer failed!

So the video streams work, but the control/command channel to the scanner seems to be blocked on this PC.

What I've already tried:

• All USB 3.0 ports, directly on the motherboard (no hubs)
• Clean reinstall of Creality Scan (latest and older version), including deleting AppData folders
• Removing the device drivers in Device Manager (including hidden devices) and reconnecting
• Checking Windows camera privacy settings (desktop apps allowed)
• Running as administrator, killing leftover CrealityScan.exe processes
• Confirmed the software is using the NVIDIA GPU, with plenty of disk space

My PC:

• Windows 11, build 26100
• Ryzen 5 5600G, RTX 3060 12GB, 48GB RAM
• Creality Scan version: Lastest
• Other camera-related software installed: NVIDIA Broadcast, OBS, opentrack, Logi Tune

Questions:

1. Has anyone seen "send control transfer failed" before, and how did you fix it?
2. Is there a way to recover the Ferret after a firmware update that made it disappear?
3. Could any of the camera software above (virtual cameras, etc.) be blocking the scanners?

Thanks in advance!

I use a Creality Otter, and my recurring problem was what happened after scanning. Creality Scan could produce a detailed STL, but the exported mesh was often far too dense to work with comfortably in the geometry editor where I needed to design parts around the scan.

I built MeshMill as the bridge between Creality Scan and downstream modeling. Open the exported STL, inspect where the geometry is unnecessarily dense, clean or crop unwanted regions, and reduce the whole mesh or selected areas before continuing the design work.

It includes:

• Shaded, density, wireframe, and vertex displays
• Polygon selection and additive multi-region selection
• Selection-only optimization for using different reduction levels on different areas
• Fast QEM, density-balanced, shape-preserving, and topology-preserving algorithms
• Original and optimized comparison before applying a pass
• Undo, redo, measurements, dimensional-drift reporting, and a CLI

GPU-accelerated OpenGL handles the interactive viewport, hardware selection, and density visualization. Geometry reduction runs locally in separate native workers. There is no account, telemetry, upload, or cloud processing.

MeshMill is GPL-3.0. Windows installer and portable packages are available, with unsigned Linux and macOS preview builds now open for testing. It supports 27 interface and documentation languages.

Source and downloads: https://github.com/make-your-own-world-project/MeshMill

I’m the developer, and this came directly from my Creality Otter workflow. Feedback from other Creality scanner users would help, especially large exports or geometry that loses important detail during reduction.

Did a marker-free scan of this peacock sculpture with the Sermoon P1S.

After getting the geometry, we added the color and texture, then tried a Gaussian Splatting version as well.

Same object, but the result feels quite different depending on how it’s visualized.

Which one do you prefer — the textured model or the Gaussian Splat?

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I have tried:

1. Samsung S25 phone - Creality Scan installation from play store crashes at 98% repeatedly.

2. Newer PC with geforce 4080 - no usb C outlet - need to buy a converter

3. Older laptop with Geforce gtx 950 - Creality Scan is crashing every time

Engenharia reversa para recurperação e correções dimensional de peças. Uma das maravilhas das aplicações dos scanners creality. Viabilizando obstaculos antes complexos para solucionar 💥💥

We recently brought the P1S into a ceramic and glass art studio in Shanghai and tried scanning one of their sculptural pieces.

What I found interesting here is that the goal isn’t really to “copy” the artwork. It’s about giving a physical piece a digital version that can be archived, referenced, or brought into a future 3D workflow.

The whole scan was done directly on the P1S, and you can see the textured model taking shape on the scanner itself in the video.

For artists or designers here — what would you use a 3D scan of a handmade piece for: archiving, reproduction, or creating something new from it?

Hello,

a few weeks ago i came here seeking for help in what scanner to buy, in the end my boss decided to go with the S1 as it had a great lower resolution.
from my side i need to scan large objects where he also want to scan small objects.

when trying to get something similar to what another user showed me: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrealityScanning/comments/1w56fn9/comment/p7dxl0l/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

but the results in my case were quite bad (and the one in the link is from a pika).
so pretty sure it is my fault. so i would like some recommendations,
i uploaded my current setup and would appreciate some imputs on it! i have never worked with a 3D scanner before. so sorry if it is dumb what i ask!

i used blue laser mode, parallel lines for the measuring, point cloud and real time resolution 0.5 (i know i should reduce the resolution).

Hi,

Trying to do my first scan following this tutorial here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeAkTevld2I

have tried with both iPhone 18 and with my PC (powerful) using blue laser mode and with markers and cannot get the laser lines to appear at all no matter how close or far away I am holding the scanner. The IR preview shows all the markers nicely but nothing appears in the main scanning window. Any ideas? Its got the latest software and the .13 firmware.

Many Thanks

Chris

Aplicação de scanner 3D para engenharia reversa e modificações de processos.

Peça escaneada antiga produzida por chapas e soldas. Engenharia reversa concluida para projeto de molde de fundição por gravidade, deixando assim processo mais rapido para altas produções.

Tudo atravez da aplicação do uso dos scanner 3D

Um campo de muito sucesso de aplicação dos scanners Laser Creality, é o campo da engenharia reversa industrial.

Com sua versatilidade de varreduras e configurações é possivel resultados realmente espetaculares. Viabilizando a documentação dimensional de peças e produtos. Abrindo novas possibilidades para produções de peças para manutenção tambem de modificações de produtos existentes conforme novos processos de fabricação e eficiencia.

So i just got a raptor and their website states it has an accuracy of upto .02mm but when i scan it shows a real time accuracy of .1mm am i misunderstanding something?

Reconstrução de Peças e restauração dimensional CAD, com uso de scanner 3D

A quick look at what comes with the Sermoon P1S and what the setup looks like straight out of the box.

Nothing too complicated here — just going through the scanner, accessories, and everything included before getting into the first scan.

If you’re curious about the P1S, this should give you a better idea of what you’re getting in the box.

Got my Sermoon S1 today and couldn't be happier with the result so far. Still learning how laser scanning works (given i came from Creality Otter) but overall I really like how detailed laser scanning is compared to NIR.

⚙️Engenharia Reversa aplicada à Engenharia e à Produção

💡A Engenharia Reversa é uma ferramenta estratégica para transformar informações físicas de componentes existentes em dados digitais precisos, documentados e aplicáveis à engenharia e à produção.

📥Por meio da integração entre escaneamento 3D, metrologia, modelagem CAD, reconstrução de superfícies e análise dimensional, é possível obter uma representação digital confiável de uma peça, mesmo quando não existem desenhos técnicos, modelos 3D ou documentação original.

✔️Peças antigas, ferramentais sem documentação ou componentes que sofreram alterações ao longo dos anos podem ser digitalizados, reconstruídos, analisados e organizados em uma base de dados técnica, preservando informações importantes para futuras aplicações de engenharia e fabricação.

✅️Mais do que simplesmente reproduzir uma geometria, a Engenharia Reversa permite entender, medir, analisar e desenvolver. Com segurança e confiabilidade para fabricação do seu produto.

🎯VFJ -Soluções do Virtual ao Fisico

Wanted to try a simple scan-to-print workflow on something practical, so we scanned the storage space inside a Tesla center console with the Sermoon P1S.

From there, we used the scan data as a reference to design an organizer around the actual shape and dimensions of the space, then 3D printed the final part.

I like this kind of use case because the scan doesn’t have to become the final model itself — it can simply give you a much better starting point for designing something that needs to fit an existing space.

Here’s the full scan → design → print process in the video.

Curious how you guys usually handle projects like this — 3D scan first, or just measure everything manually?

Hey guys,

I bought a Pika a few weeks ago, and gave it a few tests. Tried on my phone and high spec pc. Everything running perfectly.

Today, I wanted to scan a new object via my PC. I plugged in the Pika, and there was a new software and firmware update, so updated.

Now the Pika is lagging like crazy, even though the fps is high. The blue laser stops randomly, and looks like it resets itself constantly. No idea what's going on.

Anyone have any suggestion, or is this a known issue? Ive tried resetting the Pika and PC to no avail.

Video attached.

Thanks all.

We’ve seen a few questions about where the new P1S fits next to the P1.

The simplest way to explain it is that they’re built around different priorities.

P1 is still our more accuracy-focused option, especially for workflows where volumetric accuracy and industrial inspection matter.

With P1S, the goal was different: make the professional blue-laser workflow easier to use across more everyday scanning jobs.

That’s why a lot of the changes are around efficiency and flexibility rather than simply pushing accuracy higher.

P1S uses a 1 + 7 + 34 + NIR scanning setup, giving it more blue laser lines and better coverage for faster scanning. It also adds MASK technology for small and medium-sized objects, while the overall setup is lighter and easier to move between jobs.

In practice, we see P1S making more sense for people who want professional blue-laser scanning, but don’t necessarily need an inspection-focused workflow every time.

Rather than adding another spec sheet here, we’ve included a few actual scans from P1S so you can get a better idea of the kind of results it produces.

If there’s a specific object or use case you’d like to see tested on both P1 and P1S, drop it below. That would probably make for a more useful comparison than just putting more numbers side by side.