Seal Lite Scanner by 3DMakerpro is it worth it? This tutorial will help you decide...

Got a Seal Lite for Christmas. Was super excited. I have ZERO experience with 3D scanners or photogrammetry (I tried Meshroom once...) Tried to use it and I was a few hours in and I still had NO success. I was beginning to wonder if the scanner was junk or defective or the software was not working or was I just missing something. Yup. I was missing something. Eventually I found the two or three keys to actually getting a working scan. The JMStudio software is actually brilliant BUT it is challenging to make such a complex task completely intuitive in a user interface. Add to that they are developing for MacOS and Windows which means that the user interface is neither MacOS nor Windows native. I hunted for tutorials from 3DMakerpro and things that were called tutorials were more like marketing videos. I hunted on YouTube and found reviews that helped a bit but really didn't explain the steps or were using a different version of JMStudio that looked different. . I am using JMStudio Version 2.5.15 2023 in this video. I suspect new versions will follow soon.

I just hope this 18 minute boring video gives others the tidbits they need to get started quicker than I was able to struggle through the learning process.