Creality Otter "small" versus Raptor blue/laser

Obviously the laser scanning is going to significantly trump NIR scanning for small details in reverse engineering, when they both work. However, I am trying to get a handle on the limits of the Otter, as the Raptor seems to really struggle in both some of the detailed small applications where unless the part is flat-ish / lacks holes & depth (Payo drone, Raptor in Laser mode), as well as some of my larger applications where trackers are really impractical (eg I’d need to use it’s NIR only – good example from Payo on a car dashboard; Raptor in PIR mode). These two examples are really close to the reverse-engineering work I need to do to add care modifications, and print replacement parts. Clearly the “right” tools for this is (A) something much more expensive, and (B) probably not a single tool in the first place – I’m looking at this for some personal/hobby work and am only going to buy one, in the ~~$1000 price range to get started.

In this video, Payo merges a Raptor laser scan of bolt detail, into the full Otter-generated model which is great but not detailed enough to pull bolt detail off (blue pick below)

My question: For reverse engineering uses, how good can the Otter (small mode) get vs the Raptor laser, for similar capture volumes?

I can’t find any examples of a similar use case but using just the Otter, merging in Small-mode captures of subsections where high detail is required. Obviously getting scale to match will likely require a translation, but this doesn’t seem too far off difficulty wise from merging the Raptor + Otter scans as he does.

Thanks!

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stills from the videos I linked:

https://preview.redd.it/yzxsiepf3r2e1.png?width=809&format=png&auto=webp&s=02be3e817316e23884a3649c9f1a70837d10bb25

Raptor NIR really, really struggles

raptor laser is *fantastic* detail, but has lots of trouble getting \”deeper\” into the part