3DPrinting
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If you have at least one of each piece remaining, then yep - it's easy!
The technology you're after is called photogrammetry, and there are two inexpensive ways that I use often (there are more, but these are the two I rely on)
KIRI Engine - I have a subscription, but I think there is a free tier. You take about twenty photos of the object from different angles, upload for processing, and you get a 3D model back that you can print.
TRELLIS - take a single photograph and upload to here:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/JeffreyXiang/TRELLIS
You will receive a 3D model back that you can import into Blender, run a mesh operation to merge by distance (to create a watertight model), export as STL and then print.
KIRI Engine requires more work upfront, with all the photos, but is the best at recreating existing things accurately.
TRELLIS requires more work at the end, because it doesn't automatically create printable models, and it isn't a finished product yet, but it is the closest thing to actual witchcraft I've experienced.
Wow. Trellis is kind of neat! You can throw the glb into imagetostl.com and it will spit out a very usable stl quickly.
I didn't know imagetostl took glbs! I honestly wouldn't even have expected it!
I'll definitely be using that then. Blender is great, but I'm tied to one machine - I'd much rather use online tools when I can.
Thanks for that :)
This template looks very interesting too, I'll take a look at it