Once you scan a part & make a colormap, then want to add more points, how do you do it? Where do you position the cursor? Must you then make a new colormap or will it add to the existing one?
Doesn't matter where your cursor is to add more points. Any new scanned points will be added to the COP, or you can start a new cop. Only problem with having multiple COPs is that you can only colorMap one of them, it will over write the other one. In short you can only have one colorMap.
What will confuse you even more. Sometimes when you have a colormap and you save the program, and then add points and redo the colormap and then save it again. When you go back and re-open the program, it shows the proper color map in the preview window, but when you actually open the program, the original colormap shows up. Then you have to redo the colormap again and save it and hope that next time you open the program the proper color map shows up.
I don't want to hijack this thread, but this is the closest I have come in all my searches for a solution.
I am pretty new to the laser scanning but have gotten far enough to know that I can only create one color map at a time. SO, how do I combine two COPs into a single COP so I can create that one colormap of the entire part? (COP1 is of part sitting on table, COP2 is of part upside down to get the features it was resting on when COP1 was created) I have been able to align each COP to the CAD model and EQUATE the two alignments and subsequently create a colormap for each COP individually. I have tried the COPOPER / Boolean /Unite on the two COPs, but with no apparent luck. Is there any other way to accomplish this that you know of? Or maybe I'm doing something wrong with the Unite command??
I've done it, using the "CREATE COP" menu. When it opens up, instead of just 'creating' a cop, select the 2 (or more) existing COPS in the menu, and create.
Matt,
Just got off the phone with Hexagon support and that is EXACTLY the solution we just worked through! They just returned my phone call between my post and your reply. Thanks for the quick reply, however. On to the next challenge.....
