Kinect 2.0 Scan Helper

This is a simple Scan Helper for Kinect V2 (Xbox One).
With the 3D Scanner App from Microsoft you can scan free hand and also with turntable but both is not optimal. A lot of objects have not enough reference points to detect correct position and also up and down scanning is hard to figure out. Free hand scanning is too imprecise and causes issues when coming too close or too far.

With this little helper you can place an object on a fixed platform and you move the Kinect around with exact same distance and viewing angle. This makes scans much better. It adds the precision of platform scan while the scanner software can still use the background as movement reference. Just use a metal pipe as a shaft that is long enough. You can then slide the Kinect on it to get good distance. Start scanning and move the Kinect around in a perfect Sphere shape to get all sides of the object.

My sample scans are made with very bad light conditions and my cables are still too short (and my room too small g) but the results are better then every scan before.

I also uploaded step files, so you can edit the sketches and make your own helper with correct sizes for your used pipe.