This paper is based on the design and fabrication of a 3D scanner that uses low-cost hardware and open-source software where the cost of hardware is reduced significantly using wood as construction material and eliminating the need for an IR sensor which is used to capture the dimensions of the objects which is done by netfabb in this scanner and making the application of this scanner limited to small objects. The hardware is controlled using Arduino UNO ATmega328p microcontroller and using Open-source free software like 3D zephyr for 2D to 3D model generation, Netfabb for scaling, MeshLab for clean-up and alignment and GOM inspect to compare the generated scans with professional scans and their respective CAD models.

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