Build >> Scanner Direct Control >> Konica Minolta VIVID

Build >> Scanner Direct Control >> Konica Minolta VIVID

The Build >> Scanner Direct Control >> Konica Minolta VIVID command allows you to operate your VIVID 3D scanner (700, 900, 910, 9i) and accompanying rotary table directly within rapidform2004 Plus Pack 1 or newer. It gives you the convenience of both scanning and data processing inside a single comprehensive application. It offers manual, semi-automatic and fully automatic scanning, automated rotary table calibration, and a variety of control parameters to make the best use of the VIVID 3D Scanner.

Functions

Select Build >> Scanner Direct Control >> Konica Minolta VIVID from the menu. The following dialog box appears in 3~5 second while detecting and initializing a connected scanner (700, 900, 910 or 9i).

Image / Range Panes

The Image / Range pane allows you to preview and monitor the scanning process in real-time. The scanned texture can be shown here as well.

Under the Image tab, there is a picture box. If there is no VIVID 3D Scanner connected to your computer, a message is shown here: VIVID Not Found. If there is a VIVID 3D Scanner connected to your computer, you can monitor the model and see the scan result here. If Live Refresh is on, the image is refreshed in real-time while the model is being scanned.

Under the Range Tab, the scanning result is shown in color contour. There is a color bar showing the distances in different colors. Anything black in color will not be seen by the scanner, as it is out of range.

Step / Auto / Calibration Panes

The Step / Auto pane allows you to set up for a semi-automatic scanning process (step by step) or an totally automatic scanning process. The check boxes in this section are only enabled when there is a rotary table connected to your computer with proper communication settings and calibration.

Under the Step tab, you can set up parameters for a step by step scanning. You can input the name of the scan shell and its suffix in the Send to RF As boxes. If Angle Tag is checked on, the suffix number changes to xxx degree - the current angular position of rotary table. If Init. Align in RF Using Rotary Info. is checked on, a rough alignment will be applied to the scan data when Accept is clicked. The rotation information related to the corresponding rotary table is used in the alignment process. If Rotate Table To Next Position is checked on, the rotary table will be moved to the next pre-defined scan position when Accept is clicked. If it is not checked on, you have to click Rotate Table button to rotate the table manually before the next scan is performed. If Auto Accept is checked on, the scan data from each scan will be automatically sent to rapidform. Rotation Step is the relative degree the rotary table rotates in each step. When the model is in position, you can click Scan to perform a scan. To send the scan result to rapidform, you need to click Accept. In case Rotate Table To Next Scan Position is not checked on, to rotate the rotary table to next scan position, you need to click Rotate Table.

Under the Auto tab, you can set up the parameters used for a fully automated scanning process. In Scan & Rotate boxes, you can input a step angle (Deg) or the number of rotations (times). When one value is changed, the other will be modified to ensure a full 360 degree scan set. For example, if Deg is set to 60, the times value will be 6; while setting the times value to 8 will cause the Deg value to be set to 45. Send To RF As and Angle Tag options are same as those under Step tab. To begin scanning after all the parameters are set, just click Start. The Control / VIVID / Rotary Table / Calibration pane allows you to set parameters for VIVID and rotary table and do calibration. Under the Control tab, you can focus the scanner, set scan options and reset the rotary table.

Under the Calibration tab are settings to calibrate the rotary table. Calibration State shows the calibration status or if a stored calibration is successfully loaded. If it is not lit, you need to do calibration. The default of Calibration Types is Plate. If a plate (provided by Konica Minolta) is used to calibrate, you need to select Plate. If a calibration ball (provided by INUS Technology) is used to calibrate, you need to select Sphere. If Scan For Calib is clicked, the jig used in calibration will be scanned and later the scan will be sent to rapidform. Then the axis vector of the rotary table can be found by processing the scan data. In case the scan data contains a lot of noise and the calibration failed, you may need to edit the scan data and then make a reference vector in rapidform. Then you can click Pick Rot Vector, pick the vector and then click Pick Shell & Calib. and pick the scan shell to calibrate. If Calibration Info. is clicked, the current calibration information will be shown. If Load Calib Data... is clicked, you can load calibration information previously stored in a file. If Save Calib Data... is clicked, you can save the current calibration information to a file. Manual Clustering Criterion is used to classify clusters within the scan shell for the calibration purpose. If it is not checked on, the Clustering Criterion value is automatically calculated. When it is checked on, you can input a Clustering Criterion value. Clustering Criterion is a distance value and it is used to decide which cluster a vertex belongs to.

Control / VIVID:1 / VIVID:2 / Rotary Table Panes

If Auto Focus is clicked, the VIVID scanner will execute an automatic focusing that is just like pressing the AF button on the VIVID panel. Also it is possible to focus by sliding the Distance slide bar. When Auto Focus is in progress, this slide bar is disabled.
Under the Scan Option section, you can set the scan mode to Fine or Fast. Fine is the default option. It allows a better quality scanning, but a longer scanning time is needed. While Fast mode shortens the scanning, the quality may be sacrificed. Dyn. Exp. determines the on or off of Dynamic Expansion Mode. It is only valid for VIVID 910. The Scan Num is a kind of extended concept of Dynamic Expansion Mode. From 1 to 4 it can be controlled. The Texture options toggles whether to scan the texture information or not. Overlap Texture decides whether to take only the texture of the current model and overlap it on a previously scanned data. Using this function, you may take a non-textured model and overlap a texture in a different illumination condition. The Zoom allows you to zoom in/out an object like pressing the Zoom (W/T) button on the VIVID panel. It is only valid for VIVID 700.

Under the Rotary Table section, you can see the current position (Current Pos.) of the rotary table in degrees (Deg). If it is near the limit, you need to click Reset Position in order to move the rotary table to its initial position.

<VIVID 9i>
<VIVID 900/910>

<VIVID 700>

Under the VIVID:1 tab, you can set parameters related to the scanner. If Manual Para. is checked on, you can adjust the Laser Power and Gain. Laser Power should have a value between 1 and 255. Gain decides the sensitivity of the laser sensor. If Manual Para. is not checked on, the parameters will be automatically found and the manual parameters will be ignored. If Manual Color Level is checked on, you can adjust the scanning color level by typing a value in the box below. Under Data Import Options, Reduce decides the sampling ratio used to import the scan data. The default value is 1/1 and the options include 1/1, 1/4, 1/9, 1/16. Cut decides the method to remove unnecessary parts while importing the scan data. If Don't Remove is selected, no removal is carried out. If Bound is selected, the boundary points will be removed. If Bound & xx Degree is selected, the boundary points, along with the polygons within the corresponding angular range (5 Degree, 10 Degree, 15 Degree or 20 Degree) to the view vector will be removed. Filter decides the filtering method. If None is selected, the scan data won't be filtered. If Noise Filter is selected, the noisy vertices will be filtered. If High Quality is selected, the unreliable data will be filtered. This is only effective for importing scan data obtained using Vivid910. If Noise Filter & High Quality is selected, both the 2 filtering methods mentioned above will be applied. It is also only effective for importing scan data obtained using Vivid910. If Vtx Only (Vertex Only) is checked on, only the point data without connectivity information is loaded. If you want to fill holes, you need to check on Fill Hole. The Color Correction controls the brightness of texture. Dark makes texture darkly. Log makes texture brightly.

Under the VIVID:2 tab, you can do a special job related to the scanner. If Auto Focusing Per Scan is clicked, the VIVID scanner will execute an automatic focusing whenever you press the Scan button. If Multi-Depth Scan is clicked, the scanner will execute a multiple scanning while changing the distance. For example, if you set Spacing to 20 and Scan Num to 3 when the distance is 600, the scanning is performed at the position of 580, 600, and 620, and three shells are created in rapidform working window. The shell names are Default - 000deg: 01, Default - 000deg: 02 and Default - 000deg: 03. Click the VIVID 9i Calibration button to run the calibration of VIVID 9i scanner. You need a calibration jig for VIVID 9i scanner.

Under Rotary Table tab, you can make the connection with a rotary table. Rotary Table Connection shows if there is a rotary table connected to the computer. If it is not lit, no rotary table is connected. In the Model box, you can select the current used table's name. In the COM box, you can set the COM Port. When you attempt to re-connect the rotary table or after the parameter are changed, you need to click Connect button. If Disconnect is clicked, the current connection is reset and you can change the table or COM Port. If Auto connection on startup is checked on, the application tries to communicate with a rotary table when the command is run. If you put a value in the Rotate To ... Deg box and click Move, the rotary table will be rotated by corresponding degree.

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Under the Image tab, there is a picture box. If there is no VIVID 3D Scanner connected to your computer, a message is shown here: VIVID Not Found. If there is a VIVID 3D Scanner connected to your computer, you can monitor the model and see the scan result here. If Live Refresh is on, the image is refreshed in real-time while the model is being scanned.
Under the Range Tab, the scanning result is shown in color contour. There is a color bar showing the distances in different colors. Anything black in color will not be seen by the scanner, as it is out of range.

Under the Step tab, you can set up parameters for a step by step scanning. You can input the name of the scan shell and its suffix in the Send to RF As boxes. If Angle Tag is checked on, the suffix number changes to xxx degree - the current angular position of rotary table. If Init. Align in RF Using Rotary Info. is checked on, a rough alignment will be applied to the scan data when Accept is clicked. The rotation information related to the corresponding rotary table is used in the alignment process. If Rotate Table To Next Position is checked on, the rotary table will be moved to the next pre-defined scan position when Accept is clicked. If it is not checked on, you have to click Rotate Table button to rotate the table manually before the next scan is performed. If Auto Accept is checked on, the scan data from each scan will be automatically sent to rapidform. Rotation Step is the relative degree the rotary table rotates in each step. When the model is in position, you can click Scan to perform a scan. To send the scan result to rapidform, you need to click Accept. In case Rotate Table To Next Scan Position is not checked on, to rotate the rotary table to next scan position, you need to click Rotate Table.
Under the Auto tab, you can set up the parameters used for a fully automated scanning process. In Scan & Rotate boxes, you can input a step angle (Deg) or the number of rotations (times). When one value is changed, the other will be modified to ensure a full 360 degree scan set. For example, if Deg is set to 60, the times value will be 6; while setting the times value to 8 will cause the Deg value to be set to 45. Send To RF As and Angle Tag options are same as those under Step tab. To begin scanning after all the parameters are set, just click Start. The Control / VIVID / Rotary Table / Calibration pane allows you to set parameters for VIVID and rotary table and do calibration. Under the Control tab, you can focus the scanner, set scan options and reset the rotary table.
Under the Calibration tab are settings to calibrate the rotary table. Calibration State shows the calibration status or if a stored calibration is successfully loaded. If it is not lit, you need to do calibration. The default of Calibration Types is Plate. If a plate (provided by Konica Minolta) is used to calibrate, you need to select Plate. If a calibration ball (provided by INUS Technology) is used to calibrate, you need to select Sphere. If Scan For Calib is clicked, the jig used in calibration will be scanned and later the scan will be sent to rapidform. Then the axis vector of the rotary table can be found by processing the scan data. In case the scan data contains a lot of noise and the calibration failed, you may need to edit the scan data and then make a reference vector in rapidform. Then you can click Pick Rot Vector, pick the vector and then click Pick Shell & Calib. and pick the scan shell to calibrate. If Calibration Info. is clicked, the current calibration information will be shown. If Load Calib Data... is clicked, you can load calibration information previously stored in a file. If Save Calib Data... is clicked, you can save the current calibration information to a file. Manual Clustering Criterion is used to classify clusters within the scan shell for the calibration purpose. If it is not checked on, the Clustering Criterion value is automatically calculated. When it is checked on, you can input a Clustering Criterion value. Clustering Criterion is a distance value and it is used to decide which cluster a vertex belongs to.

If Auto Focus is clicked, the VIVID scanner will execute an automatic focusing that is just like pressing the AF button on the VIVID panel. Also it is possible to focus by sliding the Distance slide bar. When Auto Focus is in progress, this slide bar is disabled. Under the Scan Option section, you can set the scan mode to Fine or Fast. Fine is the default option. It allows a better quality scanning, but a longer scanning time is needed. While Fast mode shortens the scanning, the quality may be sacrificed. Dyn. Exp. determines the on or off of Dynamic Expansion Mode. It is only valid for VIVID 910. The Scan Num is a kind of extended concept of Dynamic Expansion Mode. From 1 to 4 it can be controlled. The Texture options toggles whether to scan the texture information or not. Overlap Texture decides whether to take only the texture of the current model and overlap it on a previously scanned data. Using this function, you may take a non-textured model and overlap a texture in a different illumination condition. The Zoom allows you to zoom in/out an object like pressing the Zoom (W/T) button on the VIVID panel. It is only valid for VIVID 700. Under the Rotary Table section, you can see the current position (Current Pos.) of the rotary table in degrees (Deg). If it is near the limit, you need to click Reset Position in order to move the rotary table to its initial position.
<VIVID 9i>	<VIVID 900/910>	<VIVID 700>
Under the VIVID:1 tab, you can set parameters related to the scanner. If Manual Para. is checked on, you can adjust the Laser Power and Gain. Laser Power should have a value between 1 and 255. Gain decides the sensitivity of the laser sensor. If Manual Para. is not checked on, the parameters will be automatically found and the manual parameters will be ignored. If Manual Color Level is checked on, you can adjust the scanning color level by typing a value in the box below. Under Data Import Options, Reduce decides the sampling ratio used to import the scan data. The default value is 1/1 and the options include 1/1, 1/4, 1/9, 1/16. Cut decides the method to remove unnecessary parts while importing the scan data. If Don't Remove is selected, no removal is carried out. If Bound is selected, the boundary points will be removed. If Bound & xx Degree is selected, the boundary points, along with the polygons within the corresponding angular range (5 Degree, 10 Degree, 15 Degree or 20 Degree) to the view vector will be removed. Filter decides the filtering method. If None is selected, the scan data won't be filtered. If Noise Filter is selected, the noisy vertices will be filtered. If High Quality is selected, the unreliable data will be filtered. This is only effective for importing scan data obtained using Vivid910. If Noise Filter & High Quality is selected, both the 2 filtering methods mentioned above will be applied. It is also only effective for importing scan data obtained using Vivid910. If Vtx Only (Vertex Only) is checked on, only the point data without connectivity information is loaded. If you want to fill holes, you need to check on Fill Hole. The Color Correction controls the brightness of texture. Dark makes texture darkly. Log makes texture brightly.
Under the VIVID:2 tab, you can do a special job related to the scanner. If Auto Focusing Per Scan is clicked, the VIVID scanner will execute an automatic focusing whenever you press the Scan button. If Multi-Depth Scan is clicked, the scanner will execute a multiple scanning while changing the distance. For example, if you set Spacing to 20 and Scan Num to 3 when the distance is 600, the scanning is performed at the position of 580, 600, and 620, and three shells are created in rapidform working window. The shell names are Default - 000deg: 01, Default - 000deg: 02 and Default - 000deg: 03. Click the VIVID 9i Calibration button to run the calibration of VIVID 9i scanner. You need a calibration jig for VIVID 9i scanner.
Under Rotary Table tab, you can make the connection with a rotary table. Rotary Table Connection shows if there is a rotary table connected to the computer. If it is not lit, no rotary table is connected. In the Model box, you can select the current used table's name. In the COM box, you can set the COM Port. When you attempt to re-connect the rotary table or after the parameter are changed, you need to click Connect button. If Disconnect is clicked, the current connection is reset and you can change the table or COM Port. If Auto connection on startup is checked on, the application tries to communicate with a rotary table when the command is run. If you put a value in the Rotate To ... Deg box and click Move, the rotary table will be rotated by corresponding degree.