11 Click the [Scan] button to acquire the first scan data.

A scan will start, and a color image will be displayed in the Work window area.

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If [Use Color] is not checked (i.e. no check mark is shown), The scan data has no color image data, and a gray- scale image will be displayed instead of a color image.

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•If the [Auto Scan] checkbox is checked, the second and subsequent scans will be carried out automatically.

•If the [Auto Store] checkbox is checked, a store will be carried out automatically at the end of scan.

•Clicking the [Color Read] button will re-scan for the color data only. The distance data will not be updated.

•Clicking the [Edit] button enables you to delete the area that is not necessary for three-dimen- sionalization by specifying it using the mouse.

Messages will appear at the bottom of the Work window area as shown right, so follow them to operate the mouse.

Click the [Edit] button again to exit the edit mode.

•Switch to pitch display screen, and right-click on desired position in the screen while holding down

[CTRL] key. The Z-axis coordinates at that posi- tion (distance from VIVID 9i) will appear.

To specify distance manually and perform mea- surement, this value must be used.

•Clicking on the following radio buttons will make a change to the image displayed in the Work win- dow area. The data acquired during the scan will remain unchanged.

Item

Explanation

 

 

[Mono] radio

The current image is displayed in

button

monochrome.

[Color] radio

The color image acquired from

button

the scan is displayed.

[Pitch] radio

The distance data is displayed

button

in the color that is shown in the

 

Near-Far color slide bar ac-

 

cording to the distance from the

 

object to the digitizer.

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