Is the Creality CR-Scan Otter the new King of 3D scanning??? Watch and find out!

The CR-Scan Otter is a new 3D scanner from Creality that looks to move the game along, small, medium and large scanning in one package at a price that challenges the Einstar?

I do a ridiculous number of scans to try and find out if this scanner is the real deal.

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[MakingforMotorsport]

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[AndrewNichols]

"Let's see if this Otter can make a splash". Bro, it was right there.

[shuflie]

For your markers you could get some of that flexible magnet material used on fridge magnets, cut into little squares or use a leather hole punch to make them circular, then stick the markers to them. Gives resuable markers that are easy to remove and not too much post processing if the marker covers the magnet.

[Levibetz]

I recently bought my first scanner, a cr-scan ferret and I was a bit concerned because I had seen lots of people down on creality but for what I paid (250$ NIB) I'm incredibly impressed. I was able to scan a fender with no prep in 5-10 minutes easily, I've designed a mount for an oil cooler thanks to it, and other things. It's had issues on repeating surfaces like the BMW had here but overall very useful, you could definitely design something like a wide body kit using it. Creality really needs better project management and import/export for projects though because they are actually portable. I scan on my relatively low-end 2016 era laptop and then transfer the scans to a desktop for post processing. The trick is you have to find the project in the software's files which is anything but convenient.

[EngineSpecs]

I am really curios to see if a full car body scan is possible. Can you try in the next video. Thanks for all the awesome videos.

[rickh]

Another great video. Keep them coming!

[MonsterPartsRc]

Also when you're scanning.. if you click on the drop down in the top left scanning window, you can flip the scanning image to the left or right by 90º increments... since you like holding the scanner vertically, you should rotate the image to match

[bradleynealdaley]

excitedly waiting for the raptor review. Between the Otter, Einstar, and Raptor for farm/motorsport work (home/hobby)
Thanks for the great video!

[PURCELLYOUTUBE]

Great video! Please do the inside of the engine bay in future videos. I am particularly interested in performance in the dark areas eg. the gap between the engine and the body where a turbo manifold would be. Thank you

[lukasmatzinger]

Cool to see some developments in the consumer scanner market, it’s been a while! Also great the otter seems to be a lot less resource intensive than the Einstar, which is one of its biggest flaws. 👍 looking forward to the raptor review!

[talljake]

Really interesting video. The scanner looks capable and it's interesting the software is being actively developed. My problem would be more with Creality as a company. I purchased a CR Lizard, which turned it to be an absolute debacle.

I think even if the einstar and otter were identical in performance, I wouldn't trust Creality to provide product support, especially at the 'prosumer' price point

[Mr_Hacki]

For me it would be very interessting for body parts comparison. For example a repaired crashed chassis with a new one. So you can check if the repair was successfully or you need to tweak it a little bit more.

Nice Video, keep it up!

[smudgepost]

Your mention of the Raptor sent me off researching and after an entire day, I bought one. Love your videos, though they affect my willpower..

[brad]

Got an Otter my self. Using a laptop that uses a desktop CPU I9-10850k, 32gb ram, RTX 3080. Have no performance latency at all with the scanner. I am actually happy with it and decided to get one after watching your review. Hope Creality gives there software package a little bit more love but I actually dont mind it one bit. gets me enough data to work with and im happy with it. Aside from that Love the videos they are very informative and educational. Thanks a ton!

[samster]

I use uhu patafix stickers for car panels/dashboard instead of markers. It's white, shapeable and reusable. Then i can scan in feature mode easily.

[blackflag_fishing]

Giving you an owl with a product called the otter is such a creality move

[cookopotamus]

Awesome info in all of these videos! Do you think the Otter would be good choice for scanning various tools found in a workbench to make nice-fitting printed/foam molds for them?

[SgtMajor]

I'm amazed... I have been under the impression that anything that Creality makes was pretty much garbage! You have changed my mind.

[mrkilroy]

Great review look forward to the Raptor vid! Do a large statue and engine parts!

[byronwilliams]

I have 3 Revopoint scanner along with
the CR Ferret I purchased at launch.
The only issue I have with the Ferret
is that Creality’s false advertisement
of that this career was a duel mode
scanner that can scan small to large
object. I’m not a metric system expert
so the MM range is really only
for medium to large items.
The positives with my Ferret is it
is much more forgiving than my
Revopoint scanner when it comes to
rescanning an area or when loss
tracking is re established. It can
also scan black objects, which
again Revopoint scanners struggle
unless you use dark mode.
I was in the process of investing in
the Miraco scanner for Revopoint until
I saw this Otter scanner which is
advertised as a do it all scanner.
unlike its predecessor also this new
Cr scan ferret upgraded software is
much better, I will now probably add
the Otter to. my collection of 3D scanners.