Elephant model 3D scan

I had this decorative model (of about 12cm height) of an elephant at home for many years, not sure which vacation trip it was when I bought it. Now I needed something to take my first steps in photogrammetry with the meshroom software, so it came just handy.

I had put the model on a box in the middle of a room and took about 60 photographs from all kind of different angles. Than I run it through meshroom with the default settings and this is what I got. I have cut away all artifacts of the room directly in Prusaslicer, then printed the model and exported it into the attached .stl file.

In the photograph with the dark brown and the red elephant, the dark brown one is the original that I had scanned, the red one is the print at about 30% scale.

A big thanks goes out to all the contributors of meshroom for providing this excellent piece of software to mankind for free. It is amazing how well it works.

Happy printing, and don't be shy to post a make if you like the results.

Print instructions

Printer Brand: Prusa

Printer: I3 MK3S

Rafts: No

Supports: Yes

Resolution: 0.2mm

Infill: 15%

Filament: Prusament PLA

Notes:

I printed this three times. One piece at 50% scale to the original model on a Prusa i3 Mk3S in blue pearls black, one piece as 50% on the Prusa i3 Mk3S in Prusament grey, and one piece at 30% scale on a Ender 3 Pro in dark red.

The black one and the grey one was printed with (lot's of) support and ended up very well, but removing the supports was a bit of a pain. The smaller one in red was printed without any supports, which worked surprisingly good as well. But due to the very small footprint of this tiny model, one leg broke loose from the bed during the print and I had to glue it one afterwards. So either use supports right away, or use at least a raft if you don't use supports.

License:

The license does not allow derivatives, as one of my designs in the past was “taken” from me in the past to collect donations on Thingiverse via a “Remix”, that did not add any significant value. That made me really sad. If you want to seriously remix this design, please contact me and I will gladly approve that.