I am trying to laser scan something with my Romer Arm, but for some reason the scan is super delayed and my scans are coming across very choppy compared to a smooth scan that I'm use to. I have a feeling it's in the settings. But I've never had this problem before and I don't understand what is going on.
Looks like an issue with you point sampling. What are your settings in RDS, can you take a screenshot? If your capture mode is set to "Keep Button Pressed", it could also be that too, the triggers on these arms go bad all the time. Try setting it to "Press to Start and Stop" and give that a shot.
What version of PC DMIS are you using? PC Dmis 2013 did not like to scan at all, very slow at collecting points. What type of material are you scanning? Shiny and black materials give the laser a hard time. Shiny......you can spray with some thing to cut the shiny down and black usually just needs a re-adjustment of the laser intensity.
The company I work for is considering upgrading our scanning capability to include the 3D laser scanner for our CMMs. The one question that was asked was "Can we export the scanned data directly into a 3D printer?" I currently perform 2D scans of components and export them as a DXF file to be opened with AutoCAD to compare to the customer print.
Scanning something in PCDMIS (or any software, really) produced a mesh that isn't always watertight. There are holes, gaps, noise, and other anomalies that would make 3d printing difficult.
Other softwares (geomagic/polyworks/rapidform?) have STL manipulation capabilities that one could use to seal holes, remove noise, etc. The range of parts you can scan with softwares with more developed tools is just wider. I think with PCDMIS, you'd scan as an STL, then end up having to manipulate the data in some way before it was ready to be utilized in production. Just my opinion.
there is a setting that allows you to set the distance the part can deviate, so if the part is out of tolerance more than that allowed distance it will not scan.
