# My latest toy

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**Category:** 3D Scan\
**Created:** [October 27, 2026, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/my-latest-toy/6467 "2026-10-27T22:29:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![SPerman](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/sperman/32/59_2.png) [@SPerman](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/SPerman)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/my-latest-toy/6467/1 "2026-10-27T22:29:09Z")

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I live in a somewhat rural area, and as a result, I lose power every year or two due to a storm. As a result, every year or two I cuss my generator because it needs a new carburetor due to all the corn they put in fuel these days.

I decided the solution was to put a diesel engine on the generator. How hard could it be? 🙂

Well, it turned out to be a little more complicated than anticipated. One bell of the generator was also the crank case for the engine. The generator also has a tapered input, while the engine has a straight output shaft.

I used this project as an excuse to purchase a Revopoint MetroY 3D scanner. I have to say, I’m very pleased with the results, especially considering how little time I’ve invested in learning how to use it. I’m sure with more time I would be even more impressed with what it can do. It was way more than adequate to determine the bolt pattern to build a plate to joint the generator to the engine.

 ![image](https://forum.cadmunity.com/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce0fffb5103ec1d9aedfdbf3013e8e12c737bc61.jpeg)

The last time I used a romer arm with a laser was a decade ago, and although it didn’t require adding dots all over the place, this $1500 unit is comparable to what that +$100k setup was capable of. (Having said that, the modern Faro arms we use at work scan at an incredibly fast pace, orders of magnitude faster than this toy.)

 ![image](https://forum.cadmunity.com/uploads/default/original/2X/6/61c17b00561cd88f107a51866a8f5c8ae47fd934.jpeg)

Before purchasing this unit, I purchased a Creality scanner and was massively disappointed. Apparently a windows update broke their firmware over a year ago, and they do not have a fix. I was never able to get the firmware to recognize the scanner, even though it showed up in device manager just fine. (Sorry Fred, I know you are a creality fan boy.)

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**Author:** ![Frederick\_Law](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/frederick_law/32/8_2.png) [@Frederick\_Law](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/Frederick_Law)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/my-latest-toy/6467/2 "2026-10-28T13:37:34Z")

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Inventor fanboy.

Have 2 printers in sight to replace the K1MAX.

Do want another 3D scanner. One I got lose tracking all the time. Take a few try to get the scan.

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**Author:** ![SPerman](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/sperman/32/59_2.png) [@SPerman](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/SPerman)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/my-latest-toy/6467/3 "2026-10-28T13:50:20Z")

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The scans kept losing their reference before I added the markers. Supposedly there was a firmware released last week that is supposed to improve that, but I don’t have anything I need to scan right now to test it.