Installing Deltasphere Software; Installation Procedure - 3rdTech DeltaSphere-3000 User Manual

2.3 Installing DeltaSphere Software

SceneVision-3D is the DeltaSphere's software application. It serves many functions.
It is the interface to the DeltaSphere-3000 during the scanning process and provides
communication with the server software (pre-installed and running on the DeltaSphere-3000
scanner), device control, and data acquisition and display. With the color option, it also provides
camera control and image acquisition.
After scanning, SceneVision-3D provides functions for viewing, processing, analyzing and
presenting data captured with the DeltaSphere-3000.
Minimum PC Configuration for DeltaSphere Software

2.3.1 Installation Procedure

SceneVision software is installed from the DeltaSphere software CD. Instructions for this
installation follow:
1. With your PC running, put the installation CD in your CD drive. In most computers the
2. Choose Next in the first dialog.
3. Read the license agreement and click 'Yes' if you agree to the terms.
4. For the Destination Location, choose the default directory C:\Program Files\DeltaSphere if
5. For the Data Directory, we recommend accepting the default C:\DeltaSphere\data if you
DeltaSphere-3000 3D Scene Digitizer
Windows XP or 2000
400 MHz Pentium III
256MB of memory (512MB or 1GB recommended)
100 megabit Ethernet (or 10/100)
10-20 gigabytes of free disk space (40-60GB recommended).
A 3-button mouse (or 2 buttons and a scroll wheel)
Note: For the best performance, and for ease of use of SceneVision software, a
high-performance 3D graphics card is highly recommended. This does NOT
have any effect on the performance of the DeltaSphere scanner – only on the data
display in SceneVision. Cards like this are now inexpensive and readily available
for both desktop and laptop PCs. Viewing 3D models, in particular, can be very
slow without one of these cards. Contact 3rdTech for specific recommendations.
Note: You must have administrator privileges to install SceneVision.
program will begin to run automatically. If it doesn't, use Windows Explorer to browse to
your CD drive. In My Computer it is usually 'D:' and it may say 'DeltaSphere3.1 (D:)'.
Double-click on Setup.exe to run the installation program.
you have enough space – approximately 30MB. (You can change this, but we recommend
accepting the default.)
have enough space – approximately 250MB. However, if your system has more than one
hard drive you may want to put the data directory on the drive with the most disk space
available. For example, you might change it to E:\DeltaSphere\data.
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