Over the past few years, I have been collecting(purchasing) various bones of the giant armadillo, Holmesina septentrionalis from the internet.
My goal is to eventually build an entire skeleton. Since I live in Colorado, purchasing bones is my only choice.
Recently I purchased a left astragalus bone and decided to try and create a right astragalus with my 3d printer.
Using my iPhone, I took about 50 pictures of the bone at various angles against a white background.
Using Agisoft Metashape and Meshmixer software, I was able to create a 3d image of the bone. This took some trial and error.
YouTube instructional videos were very helpful. The 3d image was then loaded into Cura software and printed on my Ender 3 Pro printer. See image of the final painted bone. On the left is the original bone, on the right is the new 3D printed bone.