Hi
I am a backer for the Revopoint Trackit scanner. Very excited to get the delivery.
I am wondering if there is any plans for a hand held probe for taking single point measurements.
This would help me in my company as I would like to use it sometime as a portable CMM machine.
For quick quality checking and comparing a few points on a cad model.
Hi @Daniel_L
Not that I know of at this moment , but every Trackit unit backed on Kickstarter comes with a free one-year license (worth $499) for Revopoint Measure. It’s 3D metrology software that analyzes the shape, dimensions, and quality of objects by comparing point cloud or mesh data to CAD models or drawings.
That includes single point distance measurements that you can use to compare your results.
But as always thank you for your suggestion !
I know the software can’t replace the handheld probe in your specific needs but right now it is all it can offer.
I have also been thinking about this as an option for Trackit
Here is an example of what i presume you are thinking about
Something like this would be very useful
Hi, there is no plan till now, thanks for your suggestion, we will forward to our R&D team for consideration~
Yes, this is exactly what I was talking about.
Now we only need everyone that would like something like this to give revopoint a message here.
To show that there is a real need from the customers.
Love the idea, already a backer but this would be an awesome addition!
I am also a backer and could see where this would be useful, I used to work in the surveying industry and essentially we were collecting single points like this. If you were clever you could use this process to mark out specific points on a large object e.g. for drilling a hole with a bit of messing around
I do also think that would be a nice adition (maybe an additionnal device we could buy as an addon later).
Would be usefull to mark the depth of deep pockets / holes for example, drill positions, etc.
Plus 1 for this. It would be extremely useful
actually now that i think of it with the accuracy of the trackit i can pre-scan and calibrate my two spheres and stick length and that will make my job a lot easier with thread in bosses etc to get my alignment data.
I’ve seen this used in a scanning work flow in automotive. Scanning a feature line or glass opening, door opening shapes etc. it’s nice to have the single points to define the openings or feature lines on car panels rather than try to guess a series of points on scanned data. It produces a much cleaner result and more quickly without the noise you get on mesh data.
Most serious CAD packages will accept a .csv file
Guys, nothing personal against anybody but we do not going into business of other companies in our community , it is against the forum TOS. I advice to change the subject or I will close this thread. Stay on topic !
Technically you could put a probe on the scan head as the tracker knows where it is and where it is pointed press a button, and store a point offset by the length of the probe, and you’re done you could 3d print the probe and use track it to calibrate its legth put that in your offset, hell all that would need to be done is get revo track to spit out a point coordinate and orientation value and you could use exel with the probe length to do a point transform and vola
p.s. you would need the offset from the scanners locus of orientation
pps this could be done during a pause in scanning the probed could be mounted to the scanners bottom for instance
I’m also interested in a CMM accessory for the Trackit and suggested it during the kickstarter campaign. Hopefully there is enough interest to warrant their time and effort.
