Hey all,
I purchased a Metro X and I’m finding it extremely difficult to use. I’ve exausted hours trying to figure this out. I’ve followed ‘MetroX Laser scanning How To and Tips by Jermaul (xile6)’ but still can’t get a good scan. Whether its auto turntable, or full field - nothing is working. Spray or no spray… markers or no markers diff angles. I feel maybe I have a defective unit? Any help would be welcomed!!!
Welcome! It can seem frustrating at first and there is a bit of a learning curve to it. But you’ll get it soon enough. From what I can see in your picture you are trying to use feature scan and the auto turn table. The part you have on there does not a have a lot of features though. It is mostly flat with many symmetrical slots. The MetroX has a small field of view (FOV) and can only see so much of the object at once. It gets confused at to which part of it is looking at and already looked at.
If you want to do auto with this part, I would do it on marker mode. Make sure you can see at least 4 markers at any given time. They will light up red on your screen. If you have markers on there and the scanner is just not seeing them, then you need to mess with your depth and laser brightness settings until they become visible.
Keep at it and keep updating us with detailed accounts of settings you are using. We’ll get you making beautiful scans in no time.
Hi @cbeast
I see the problem from the screenshot , you trying to scan a featureless object using Auto mode , you need to choice a marker mode for this kind of object and put the scanner at 45 degrees in relative position to the turntable so markets are visible .
Please uncheck the base removal option , this is one of your problem here , elevate slightly the best object above the plate, just slightly by putting something small under it .
After that you will be able to scan it without issue in Auto mode or Full Field.
As Putv said.
You are not using marker mode but feature mode.
There are simply not enough define features to track with that item.
Marker mode is what you should be using.
