Difference between revisions of "How to Scan a Point Cloud"

Revision as of 15:55, 7 February 2019

Start the Command to Scan

• 1 - Press Measure Process in the Navigation Pane.
• 2 - Press Point Cloud Scanning.
• 3 - Press Scan a New Point Cloud.

Set Diameter Cut Plane OFF if ON

• 4 - Turn Diameter Cut Plane OFF if the maximum cloud radius is zero.

VTube-LASER will display this step if DCP Auto is on and the diameter is set to zero.

Note that you can leave DCP on, but remember that it will limit your laser line length on the tails of the laser.

Scan

• 5 - Scan with the scan button, then press the accept button when have the first bucket of points completed.

This image shows six buckets of points - which means we scanned 6 groups of points and pressed the accept button 6 times.

When you press Accept to store a bucket, VTube-LASER is ready for you to start scanning the next pointcloud bucket.

Stop the Measure Process

• 6 - Press the STOP button.
• 7 - You can change the color of the buckets for better visualization.

Note: In this image, we turned on Perspective Mode to give a more realistic shape to the model. The Perspective Mode switch is in the Viewport menu on the right. It is also in the Viewport popup menu.

Measure Distances

• 7 - In the Other Actions menu, click on Dimension Control Window.

Note: In this image, we turned on Perspective Mode to give a more realistic shape to the model. The Perspective Mode switch is in the Viewport menu on the right. It is also in the Viewport popup menu.

• 8 - With the viewport in SELECT mode, select any two points. Select the first point, then hold the shift key and select the second point.
• 9 - Press "Build True View Dimension"

Exporting Buckets to a File of XYZ Coordinates

• 10 - Change to the File tab in Point Cloud Bucket Control
• 11 - Export the active buckets (buckets that are not active will not be exported). All the active buckets will be grouped in one file.