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Chapter 7: Controller Software
Before starting with your scan project, you may enter this structure here.You
can reproduce the complete structure of your scan project within the scanner
software; or with SCENE software and transfer the project to the scanner
through the SD card. Please read the SCENE software manual for more
information.
Once the project structure has been created, assign the single scans to the
corresponding clusters. To do this, select a scan project and cluster before
starting a scan. This project should correspond to the current scanner position.
For example, if you take scans in the office building on floor 2, in room 2,
select “room 2” from the project list and then start taking the scans in this
room. The next scans are then assigned to the selected project or sub project
“room 2” until you select another cluster. This information will be attached to
each scan and helps SCENE to automatically combine the scans to scan
clusters and thus to automate the registration of the scans. For more
information on scan registration and combining scans to cluster, see the
SCENE user manual.
You can enter scan projects with the controller software of the scanner or,
more conveniently, with SCENE and then transfer the project to the scanner
through the SD card. Please read the SCENE user manual for more
information on this.
Please note: Every project and cluster gets a unique internal
identification number when it is created. Combining the scans
to scan clusters during post processing in SCENE will be done
according to this identification number and not on the basis of
the project name. This is particularly relevant when working
with several scanners on the same scan project. In this case,
you must create the project structure once as a master and
then transfer it to all of your scanners. Thus, it is not
recommended to create or edit a project of the same scan
project separately on each scanner. Even if the separately
created projects and clusters have the same name, they will get
different identification numbers and will be treated as different
projects by SCENE.