Here, have some engagement. I love this idea, I did everything I could to get rid of my inkjets but now I may look for a broken printer with a working scanner.
Going further, if your scanner makes the same sized document each time, you could skip the ruler and just calibrate to the outline of the document. I.e. if your scanner is 8.5x11", you can just so the outer edge of the document and calibrate it to that! Great unconventional use of an existing tech!
Shouldn't even need a ruler? Scanners are usually staggeringly dimensionally exact, if you can just preserve their output dimensions through to the CAD. Like if you scan at 600dpi, you're going to have exactly 600dpi, well nothing in the world is exact, but it's that much more exact than you could hope to calibrate with a ruler.
Here, have some engagement. I love this idea, I did everything I could to get rid of my inkjets but now I may look for a broken printer with a working scanner.
Haha, thanks for the engagement. It's such a simple but powerful method.
Hope you get some good use out of it 👍
Fantastic Idea. And Yes, I've used a similar method.
Thank you.
What did you make?
@@IQWorkshop An enclosure for an IR LED Board I made.
Going further, if your scanner makes the same sized document each time, you could skip the ruler and just calibrate to the outline of the document. I.e. if your scanner is 8.5x11", you can just so the outer edge of the document and calibrate it to that! Great unconventional use of an existing tech!
Nice
Thank you
Shouldn't even need a ruler? Scanners are usually staggeringly dimensionally exact, if you can just preserve their output dimensions through to the CAD. Like if you scan at 600dpi, you're going to have exactly 600dpi, well nothing in the world is exact, but it's that much more exact than you could hope to calibrate with a ruler.
Interesting concept. How exactly would you translate the DPI in fusion360?
@@IQWorkshop That's the question, isn't it!