Faro Focus M 70 - Scan Projects and Clusters

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Laser Scanner Manual
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Chapter 7: Controller Software
See On-Site Registration on page 104.
7.4.1 Scan Projects and Clusters
The Projects/Clusters page displays the structure of your real scan projects. A
scan project can consist of a main project that has several sub-projects called
clusters. For example, if you are scanning a multi-level building as a project,
each floor of this building might represent one cluster and each of these floors
or clusters can have further clusters, for rooms.
The structure of the scan project might then be like this:
- Office building
- Floor 1
- Room 1
- Room 2
- Room 3
- Floor 2
- Room 1
- Room 2
Before starting with your scan project, you may enter this structure here. You
can reproduce the complete structure of your scan project within the scanner
software; or with SCENE software and transfer the project to the scanner
through the SD card. Read the SCENE software manual for more information.
Once the project structure has been created, assign the single scans to the
corresponding clusters. To do this, select a scan project and cluster before
starting a scan. This project should correspond to the current scanner position.
For example, if you take scans in the office building on floor 2, in room 2,
select “room 2” from the project list and then start taking the scans in this
room. The next scans are then assigned to the selected project or sub project
“room 2” until you select another cluster. This information will be attached to
each scan and helps SCENE to automatically combine the scans to scan
clusters and thus to automate the registration of the scans. For more
information on scan registration and combining scans to cluster, see the
SCENE user manual.
You can enter scan projects with the controller software of the scanner or,
more conveniently, with SCENE and then transfer the project to the scanner