I want to take a lot of points on a planar surface and then level to a plane made up of those points. The computer is down a flight of stairs and I would be upstairs inside a machine canvassing an area about 12' across. Using version 2011. No CAD. Not using T-Probe, just reflectors. I'll turn the probecomp off to keep it simple. I have me, myself, and I helping, so I don't want to do things in a way that has going up and down stairs a whole bunch of times to click on the screen. I don't have a remote either. In the middle, about halfway inbetween the large planar surface I am measuring, I have a break in my line of sight to the instrument. So I was thinking I could do two separate fixed distance scans, to collect all the hits I want to end up in my plane. Then, if I do that, how do I construct "one" plane out of both scans? My newbie ways would have me just taking a bunch of individual points and constructing a plane after I was done, if I could take hits near enough to the computer so I could hit enter after every point. But because it's downstairs, I want to take a bunch of points without having to reach the computer after each hit. I am almost brand new to a laser tracker. I am normally a DCC guy when it comes to pc-dmis. I figured I would use .200" for my fixed distance. So I tried to do that, and now I have two scans as my first two features in my edit window, and trying to construct the plane I want isn't working either. Can scan data be used to make a plane? What is the right way to this?
