Manual

Scanner Tab
This tab contains a checkbox labelled “Enable Movement Override”. When checked,
two sliders are enabled, “Bed Resolution” and “Head Step Resolution”. These sliders
allow you to specify the degree of bed rotation and the number of millimeters the
head will move during the manual scan process, overriding the automatic settings
built into the software.
Bed Resolution
The larger the degree of bed rotation, the faster your scan will go, and the less detail
you will capture. Conversely, the smaller the degree of bed rotation, the more detail
will be captured and the slower the scan will go.
If you want to do a very quick scan, set this at 5 degrees or more. The lasers are fired
and points captured at each rotational degree, so the larger the degree, the fewer
times the capture process happens. It takes about one second to capture and
calculate three dimensional points each time the lasers are fired, so the time per
“pass” (pass: the 360° rotation of the object) is easy to calculate.
Bed Rotation
# of Captures
Regular Scan Time
High Contrast Scan Time
0.5°
720
12 minutes
24 minutes
1°
360
6 minutes
12 minutes
5°
72
2 minutes
4 minutes
The regular scan process uses “Adaptive Scanning”, which means that each new set
of points is reviewed to determine how far the model has rotated since the previous
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