Hi, I'm Heather. I would like to review our Microform three d Scatter with you today. I have thirty years experience in the jewelry industry and five years with CAD design. And I have to say the CAD design has been a game changer in our industry. However, it was missing some points and it ended up being now that we needed to buy a scanner and I did a ton of research and I needed a micro scanner to scan all the delicate little bits that jewelry has. The three categories where we use our scanner the most, and I tell you it has been a game changer, is when you have a model or a design that's your inspiration piece, and you're wanting to replicate that piece, but it may have unique lines to it, you can scan your item into our Microform three d scanner, and you can actually import it and then create your new design right around the scanned piece. So as you can see here, here's my new design, but I scanned it right off of my sample ring. This was the sample scanned piece that I brought in from our Microform scanner, And I was able to replicate the piece or again, having my inspiration piece guide me along the way. It offers a lot more support than importing the pictures. A lot of times that's what we'll do as CAD designers is import four pictures and how to cross section them and try to, with your millimeter gauge, try to figure it all out. Well, when you actually have an imported model in your software, you use that as your range markers, and it really does speed up the process. So duplicating an image or an inspiration piece is one very, very key factor that we do. Number two, are those unique stones. So as you can see here, I have a very uniquely cut citrine stone. We've scanned it already into our Microform scanner. And I wanted to show you here how simply it imports in to the scanner. And we can bring it right into our software. Sorry. So I've scanned it already here. I've imported the unique gem. I've applied a material to it. And just to show you as reference, you can see every facet when you're now creating maybe a basket, a setting, a ring, you can do whatever you want with it now because all these unique shapes are actually inside the software and I don't need to rely on my millimeter gauge anymore to create the gem. Last but not least is our matching bands. We do a ton of matching bands for our clientele here. And so I did the same thing. The client had a band on one side of their ring, they wanted us to make a band for the other side. So I just simply scanned in their first ring. And then I was able to model the second ring right over top of my scanned image. And I have just perfection here. It was very easy for my Goldsmiths to finish with very little modifications. I give two thumbs up. The support is wonderful. If I ever need to get ahold of Microform three d support team, they always get back to me right away. I haven't had a problem. The machine is simply it's small, it's not over overpowered or oversized. The software is super easy to use. I can use it, anybody can use it, that's the truth. But again, I just can't say enough about it. We love it. So I highly recommend the Microform three d scanner for your jewelry needs.

I wanted to make a video to show everyone a little bit about this three d scanner that we purchased from Microform three d. Our company is in the jewelry industry, specifically Memorial Jewelry, and we're beginning to produce a lot of custom pieces one off designs for our customers. The three d scanner was something that we just needed to have in order to get the detail that we wanted for small intricate pieces. I just wanted to show you guys a little bit about how easy it is to use. We love this thing. It doesn't take up that much room. This is kind of our setup that we have here. It's just a little station with a computer. The camera itself is fairly compact. One of the reasons we went with the Microform three d scanner is because of its ability to scan a larger area. While a lot of the pieces we do are fairly small in size, we thought that there would be room in the future to do bigger custom products for people. And we get such a large scanning area here compared to the other ones that we looked at. In addition to the size, the detail is just unparalleled. We did side by side tests with other scanners when we were looking to purchase, and Microform 3Ds was by far the best quality out of anyone we looked at, especially for the price point as well. On top of that, we are thrilled with their service. Their service is amazing. If you if you do go with them, you will not be disappointed. I just, this morning, had one on one support when using the application. It'd been a while since I used it. I was a little rusty, and they were just on top of it. They were able to fix my problems within minutes. Very great company to work with. Very great product. And I think I just wanna show you guys a little bit about how easy it is to actually use the scanner itself. So as I stated, we have our setup here. I just have it set up on the tabletop. I'm in our conference room right now, and I have the application pulled up here. It was a very simple download. But today, I'm gonna be scanning this piece. And to keep it short and sweet, I'll kinda edit out all the the manual stuff. But this is the piece we'll be scanning. It's one of our pieces that we offer at our company, and it's really as simple as taking some of this putty here, attaching it to the stick. They have couple different versions here. This is my favorite for most of our pieces. But you put some putty on the top of it, and you stick the piece on there. And then you screw it into the platform there, and you're basically ready to go right off the bat. So bear with me. I'm gonna set this up, we'll start scanning. Okay. I have our piece set up on the scanning stick in the middle right here. And the one thing I forgot to mention, before you scan, you just spray some of this. We've been using this scanning spray. It's worked fantastic. Just a light dusting, and that's all you need. So once you get it set up there, you go to the app here and you type in a, simple name for the project, the approximate diameter of the piece, the number of scans you want it to do. We put it right in the middle of the recommended range at ten. You keep the tilt the default tilt, and it'll open it up in the point kit app afterwards that is just incredibly easy to work with. This is coming from me, someone with no experience in any sort of three d softwares. This has been incredibly easy to work with. After this, you just simply press the start scanning, and the camera gets to work. Now it's going to be scanning this piece right here through ten different angles. This is the first time I turned it on, so it's warming up now. It'll rotate the centerpiece, it'll rotate the bar to get every angle of the piece that you're scanning, and I'll meet you when it's done. So the scan is just about done here. It gives you a little rough preview on the app here. But what's great is once it's done scanning, it automatically opens up the point kit application, which makes it incredibly easy to merge the layers together and create, you know, one piece out of it. So we'll see right here that it opens up in this point kit app where you can take all the layers and merge them together. It's super simple. You have all the meshes over here. You simply click the align button, standard, and it brings everything together. Now I'm doing this one handed so I had to stop, but once you align all the meshes you're left with something like this. It's as simple as holding the space bar and drawing with your cursor to erase the stick, I guess I'd call it, that it spins on. And so you're left with the top half here and this is before finalizing it so it's still in a rough state here. But this is your first step. Then your next step with these scans is you're basically going to flip the piece upside down. You're going to take another scan so you get the bottom half that's covered by the putty right there. And then this same program, you're going to save this piece and you do the other scan and you bring the other one in and it auto aligns and you're left with a full piece. We'll do that next process here and I'll show you what it looks like once we bring it in. Okay, I've now flipped it over and given it a quick little spray with the scanning spray again. We're going to repeat the same process. We're basically just going to scan the bottom side here and then we'll bring them together. Same thing, I usually change the name at the top to let me know it's the second run. You're just going to follow the same steps and press the scan button. Once the scan is over it brings it in like this. I have the two of them loaded in here. I'm just going to follow the same steps as before to align them. Again, I'm doing this one handed but you simply press the spacebar, trace around here, press the delete button, it brings it out and you go to the align tool and you press align and standard and it aligns it all together for you. Sometimes there are some instances where you just need to tweak it a little bit by moving it on the axis to get it a little closer so it can auto align for you. But you seldom have to do that. It is extremely easy and this is coming from a novice with no experience with this type of program. So I'm going to clean it up, merge them together, and I'll show you what they look like. After using your standard align feature right here it brought it together just like this. I mean I have not had to do any manual moving and this is the rough piece that you're left with. Once you get to this step you're going to go up to your merge tool and finalize. This is just a final step to bring it all together. I haven't really messed with this at all. You just press the finalize feature and it brings everything together into one final image. Once you press the finalize button this is what you're left with. It's just amazing quality down to the stone setting. As I've mentioned multiple times I have no experience with any three d scanner, operating a three d scanner. No experience with any three d software. And after about forty five minutes to an hour consultation with them initially, I was able to easily figure out how to use the scanner itself, how to use this point kit scan app, and really haven't had any issues since. It's super user friendly and their service is just fantastic. We're not being paid. This is not a paid sponsorship or anything. They ask for honest feedback on the product and I can honestly say that out of all of the scanners that we had tested with some of our products, none of them resulted in this detail. None of them were as easy to use as this product and none of them had the personalized support that we found with Microform three d. We're just very happy with the product and we're excited to see what else we can do with it.