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CH APTE R 3
B A S I C S C A N N I N G
B E G I N A N E W S C A N
Initiate scanning by pushing the
Scan Start/Stop
button, located above and to the right of
the screen. The display changes to give you an option of taking a cover photograph to
identify the scan folder in the Main Gallery, as shown previously in Figure 4 and in Figure
23 below.
Figure 23: Begin New Scan screen.
BEG IN NEW SCAN O PTIONS
Start Scan
Initiates lidar point collection. You must Name your scan before
you can start collecting data. Any other pertinent information,
such as taking a Scan Photo or adding Notes, should be completed
prior to pressing the
Start Scan
button to begin scanning.
Name
Tap into the Name textbox to add a scan name. You can choose to
name your scan in accordance with the start date and time of the
scan by clicking the
Use Date Timestamp
button. For example, a
dataset that was scanned on 16 August 2019 at 09:36:26 would be
named
08-16_09-36-26
.
