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?
I'm not a tracker user, but I can confirm that you can Construct a Plane of type Best-Fit with your scan as the source.
Alternately, you could do both of your scans, walk back to the computer, F9-edit them, use the "To Point" button to transmute them into vector points, and then Construct one giant plane that is Best Fit to the huge body of points. (hopefully you've used the Group Command to hide them in the Edit Window)
I'm surprised that you can't make a Plane that is Best Fit to both scans at once.....
I'm not a tracker user, but I can confirm that you can Construct a Plane of type Best-Fit with your scan as the source.
Alternately, you could do both of your scans, walk back to the computer, F9-edit them, use the "To Point" button to transmute them into vector points, and then Construct one giant plane that is Best Fit to the huge body of points. (hopefully you've used the Group Command to hide them in the Edit Window)
I'm surprised that you can't make a Plane that is Best Fit to both scans at once.....
