Setting Resolution And Quality - Faro FOCUS3D X 130 User Manual

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FARO Laser Scanner Focus
January 2014

Setting Resolution and Quality

(Home > Parameters > Resolution / Quality)
Resolution - The resulting scan resolution. You can choose among 1/1, 1/2, 1/4,
1/5, 1/8, 1/10, 1/16, 1/20 and 1/32. Use the slider on the left to change the
resolution of the next scan.
Quality - Affects the quality of the scan and the scanning time at constant scan
resolutions. It allows the user to balance the needs of quality and speed with one
simple slider. Moving the slider up reduces the noise in the scan data and thus
increases the scan quality which results in an increased scanning time. Moving
the slider down reduces the scanning time and increases the efficiency of your
scan project. The Quality slider sets quality levels either via diverse measurement
rates or by applying additional noise compression. For details about the various
quality settings, please see Figure 5-28.
The resulting Scan Duration, vertical and horizontal scan points (Scan Size
[Pt]), as well as the resulting scan size in Mega points (MPts) will be displayed
in the middle of the view. Point Distance [mm/10m] / [in/30ft] is the distance
between the captured scan points in mm (in) in a scan distance of 10 meters (30
ft.).
Depending on the chosen scan resolution only appropriate quality values are
selectable (see Figure 5-28).
If you plan to capture several scans from the same position (with different
resolutions) and if it is important that these scans have the same horizontal start
angle, then you should neither switch off the scanner nor change the quality
between the recordings of these scans.
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Figure 5-18 Change Scan Resolution and Quality
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