How can I print my scans (or have it printed)?

You need a so called “watertight mesh” to use it with a 3D printer. The STL file format is widely used for this purpose.

All paid ASCAND plans generate these meshes automatically and send them to your myascand.xplicator.com account at the end of every 3D-scan you make.

Community Edition users can manually convert the “point cloud” into a mesh. There are some great tutorials how to convert a point cloud into a mesh using the free Meshlab program.

Since this process is pretty computing intensive, we are currently not offering automated STL generation for the Community Subscription to protect the availability of our ASCAND Community Servers.

Once you have an STL file it is easy to “slice” these the GCODE that can be interpreted by a 3D printer.

There are a lot of free options for slicers out there.