Which is the smallest marker that is recognized by our scanners?

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We had last week a fantastic meeting of Revopoint freaks in Munich, organized by @Truderinger. We had plenty of fun, we found plenty of common topics, and there were plenty of discussions about our own projects.

One of the topics was about the smallest marker that is recognizable by a Mini. As I have the tools to make my own markers, I have prepared this setup, with 4 different diameters (1,5mm, 2mm, 2,5mm, 3mm) and run some tests with my Mini & MetroX.

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The result can be summarize here: The color means:
Green: Markers visible 100% of the times
Red: Markers never visible
Orange: Markers ocasionally visible (10% of the times, approx)

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So, the Mini is able to work with 2,5mm markers. Anything smaller than this is just unusable.

BTW, this test also matches the observations from @kaczorefx. 3mm markers on the MetroX only work in laser mode.

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It is just the software that was adjusted so the small holes are not recognized as markers, before I could use to 1 mm with Mini

Right now officially it is 3 mm as Mini 2 is shipping with 3 mm markers as well

The software don’t really recognize the markers per size , so if you use 3 or 6 mm both are handled the same way by the software.

MetroX is a different type of animal here and one of the reason the software is different . Both software for that reason are not comparable with each other.

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