3D Scanning and Printing Lab

15/01/2026

Matterport 3D Showcase.

06/01/2026

Printed at 1100%, this Micro CT scan of a bat skull took over 3 days to print on the and it looks quite intimidating. The original is included for scale.

01/04/2025

Lidar scan of the AMS RadioCarbon dating instrument of the QUB

Supported devices: iPhone 6S+ & iPad 5+ on iOS 12+ and Android 8.0+ with ARCore 1.9 support Open this page with such a device to experience AR.

01/04/2025

3D scanning and printing workshop at Science Fest 2024. Our workshop was a great success. Unfortunately, we did not make it this year but will hopefully be back for 2026.

31/03/2025

A brief tour of the 3D printing and Scanning lab..

15/12/2024

Laser scanning and photogrammetry practical session for the 3rd year digital archaeology module.

15/12/2024

Cave scanning from a boat with a in Trang An . Great fun!

28/10/2024

Humble beginnings: our first 3D printer, a Voxelab Aquila Pro, hard at work to print a 3D model of topographic map of I created for the project. It took around 24 hours for each of the 12 tiles to be printed. Using a GIS and projector, the model then served as our first testing ground for projection mapping, in which geographical and topographical data is projected onto a physical topographical map. Special prjection mapping software is used to correct the projected data for distortion that is caused by the non-planar projection surface.

28/10/2024

First test print of animal bones scanner with the Creality Ferret hand-held 3D scanner. Despite its low cost of under £400, this scanner produces good quality scans even without the use of targets. The scanner is highly portable and is ideal to quickly capture small to medium sized objects and features in the field. Printed with the Bambulab P1S.

23/10/2024

I scanned this sculpture of George Mitchell (outside Whittle Hall at QUB) in preparation of our 3D archaeology Module. I used a Creality Ferret, iPhone camera plus Metshape and Scaniverse for iPhone to illustrate the strength and weaknesses of different scanning methods. The Metshape processed model can be found here (along with the other two): https://skfb.ly/prZAD The photos shows two different 3D prints: the grey one is a resin print (Phrozen Mighty Revo) that has been coated with resin to give it a laquered effect. The bronze-coloured one was printed with a filament printer (Bambulab XC1) with a copper effect filament and painted with black in a dry-brush technique to give it a patinated bronze effect.

22/10/2024

Blast from the past: February 2022. My first ever complex 3D print on our first ever 3D printer the Voxelab Aquila Pro. Slow print and cumbersome to set up but produced nice prints while it lasted. The print is of a late Neolithic skull from Millin Bay archaeological site. Scanned by PhD researcher Ryan Montgommery for Dr. Lisa White. Printing time was just under 85 hours.