My daughter shoots trap with a Beretta A400 Multitarget. The shell catcher she likes to use, the black part in the attached image, is no longer made. The one she has has worn enough were it doesn't stay on the gun. I haven't bee able to find an alternative. The standard wire ones that flip down to allow normal operation don't seem to be an option. It seems the exuberant ejection just pushes it out of the way. Is there a way to scan the one I have to make a model to 3D print it? My CAD abilities are not that good to be able to re-create it directly.
I have an entry level 3d scanner (creality ferret pro) and it's a lot more work scanning objects than it is to take the measurements and reverse engineer it from scratch. The big things that the scanner helps me with is matching surfaces (like a helmet for example, hard to measure round shapes with no good reference points) or for artistic prints (mini statue of yourself, anyone?)
The piece pictured doesn't look super complex, I would think you could model it fairly quickly once you get the hang of a decent cad program.
I use Siemens Solid Edge community edition, it's free and has everything I need and more.