This tool is designed to find the IP address and subnet from a Polyga 3D Scanner connected via ethernet. This tool is used for scanners where the IP address has been changed from the default IP address and you need to find out its settings.

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How to Use

1. Install npcap-1.55.exe with default installation options.

2. Double click the PolygaScannerSearchTool.exe file and wait for a moment. If the scanner is functioning and ethernet cable is correctly plugged, you will be able to see the message.

Imaging Source is one of the machine vision camera manufacturers in North America. They offer a wide selection of industrial cameras and accessories. Since FlexScan3D starts to support DirectShow API, Now it is possible to interact with Imaging Source Camera.

Can’t find the camera on FlexScan3D?

If you are not able to find the imaging source camera on FlexScan3D, You might not have the correct camera driver. Go to the Imaging Source Camera Download page and there will be drivers for the different types of cameras. Find the driver that fits your camera, restart your computer and try again.

• Added Support for H3 Handheld 3D Scanner

New Features

• Automatic Rotary Calibration
• Texture Smoothing on Finalization
• Export mesh to Geomagic Wrap

Over this past year, our team has been busy updating many areas to FlexScan3D, our proprietary 3D scanning software. Our intention was to make improvements to FlexScan3D under the hood to further enhance the 3D scanning experience. One of the focus areas we’ve been adamant on improving is scan data accuracy. While it’s not a visually exciting to show, 3D scanner accuracy is very important factor to many of our customers using HDI 3D scanners, especially when it comes to metrology applications.

Our team has been successful in calibrating high accuracy HDI Advance and Carbon 3D scanners internally and we want our customers to achieve these same results, even for those who own earlier models of our systems.

To accomplish this goal, what we found that would help is to provide simplified tools for the calibration process. We introduced two key things:

1. New calibration boards
2. Tune calibration feature

If you already own a HDI 3D scanner or a system that uses FlexScan3D as the scanning engine, here’s how you can use the latest version of FlexScan3D to significantly increase your system’s accuracy.

Higher Accuracy Calibration Boards

Calibration boards are critical for defining your 3D scanner accuracy.

As a result, we’ve developed new higher accuracy calibration boards that are optically inspected and certified. If you have an older calibration board that is a few years old, it’s likely out of specification now. As time passes, the paper and glue on the calibration board will deform and stretch due to environmental conditions. As well, the latest calibration boards have new inspected values, and not just nominal ones that should give you the best output.

Tune Calibration

Starting from FlexScan3D 3.3.11.x to the latest version, we’ve also launched a brand new tune calibration feature that gives you significantly more tools to accurately adjust your scanners’ calibration using any calibration artifact, not just a ball bar as in previous versions of the software.

This new tool allows you to use the measurement geometry interface to create measurement points that can fine tune the calibration value for the scanner. You can even manually override the settings.

With this workflow, we’ve found it to be much more effective than our previous method of calibration adjustment of automated global tuning using ballbars.

The Test

Just by doing these few steps, you can improve the accuracy of the HDI 3D scanner significantly. We ran some tests internally to see what kind of differences they would make when scanning a calibrated artifact. We calibrated an older HDI Advance R1x 3D scanner at roughly 450mm FOV and calibrated it multiple ways and scanned a 100mm ball bar as well as a 40mm gauge block.

First, we used a well-used legacy calibration board from LMI. This was one of our older board and had definitely seen better days. Next, we calibrated the scanner using a newer Polyga branded calibration board which is more in spec than the LMI one. However, if we use the plain value, it’s not as good as if we used its inspected value which gave us a better accuracy.

Lastly, we use the same board, but instead of using the inspected value, we used a straight 15mm value and then tuned it using our ballbar. When you tune it, it overrides the input value with the tuned value to give the best results.

This is our recommended workflow currently in terms of getting the best accuracy out of your HDI 3D scanner. If you don’t have a calibration artifact, using the inspected value (e.g. 15.015mm) on the new Polyga calibration board would give you more than acceptable accuracy. If you have do a calibration artifact that’s certified, use either the nominal or inspected value on the new Polyga calibration board with tuning would yield the best accuracy results overall.

Keep in mind the highly tuned calibration value is best for during the period after you calibrate. The 3D scanner will not hold those precise values as it will settle out to meet our target accuracy values as you move around and use the scanner. If accuracy is critical for your application, you should calibrate your scanner regularly.

Tips For Optimizing the Accuracy of Your 3D Scanner

Here are my quick tips to maximize the accuracy of your existing HDI 3D scanner:

1. Replace any old calibration boards with a new certified Polyga calibration
2. Use the new Tune Calibration tool found in the latest version of FlexScan3D
3. Get a scanning artifact (e.g. a ball-bar) that have known dimensions
4. If you’re using older cameras or lenses, it might be time to update them. Usually using new equipment makes huge difference to the results.

Everyday at Polyga, we are looking for ways to improve not only our latest products but products that we’ve sold and supported for years. With this new information and new FlexScan3D features, I hope you can also turbo-charge your existing HDI 3D scanner.

*All scanners accuracy is tested using against NIST traceable artifacts using standardized testing methods. In this case study we did an abbreviated version of standardized tests, and not the full certification process.

To update the firmware

• Open FlexScan3D and connect your device as Compact L, S, H Series.
• Go to the Scanners tab on FlexScan3D.
• Click the Update Firmware button and choose the firmware file downloaded.

Xtract3D is a reverse engineering plug-in that works natively inside SOLIDWORKS. The following is an overview of various solutions to commonly observed issues with the Xtract3D plugin.

Imported Mesh Won’t Appear in Feature Tree

Problem: In a recent update to either Windows or SOLIDWORKS, some issues have been observed where an imported mesh does not appear in the feature tree.

Solution: The issue is resolved by importing the mesh while running SOLDIWORKS as administrator.

Can’t Activate/Upgrade License

Problem: When trying to activate or upgrade the license, an error message is received.

Solution: If you are trying to activate or upgrade the license through SOLIDWORKS, ensure to run SOLIDWORKS as administrator. If licensing continues to fail, please contact support@www.polyga.com.

For further questions and support, please contact support@www.polyga.com

SB SDK – Scanner Control SDK

The GoAccelerator improves a HDI Compact C series’s processing capability by transferring the processing to a PC in the system.

Before using GoAccelerator

• Download GoAccelerator [here]
• Power up the scanner that you want to accelerate
• Ensure that the version of Accelerator and Firmware are matched.
  (If version mismatch, Accelerator might not work properly)
  • To check Firmware version, run Flexscan3D and go to Scanners tab.
    
  • To check Accelerator version, run GoAccelerator and version is stated on the bottom.
    

Using GoAccelerator

The basic sequence to use Accelerator is below

1. Run Accelerator
2. Start Accelerator
3. Run Flexscan3D
4. Connect to scanner

The detailed steps to run GoAccelerator are below

• Run GoAccelerator
  (If a Windows Security alert asks whether you want to allow GoAccelerator.exe to communicate on networks, make sure Public and Private are checked, and then click Allow Access.)
• Choose device that you want to accelerate.
  If you do not see any devices, click Refresh button() to renew the device list
• Click Start button to start Accelerator
  
  • After clicking button, the status will be Accelerating. Please wait until the status is changed to Accelerated.
    
  • Once the status is changed to Accelerated, you are good to go to the Flexscan3D and connect scanner.

Trouble Shooting

Port 8080 is already in use

• If port 8080 is already in use, set Web port to any unused port on the GoAccelerator.

As of version 3.3.8.325, Flexscan3D has provided support for FLIR’s GeniCam3 Spinnaker API. Before you can get started, you must first run a separate installer installer for Spinnaker drivers.

The version of Spinnaker you need is dependent on the version of Flexscan3D you are running.

Instructions

You will need internet connection for this installation. For an offline installer, visit https://www.ptgrey.com/Downloads.

1. Run the installer
2. When prompted, select Application Development

3. When selecting components, ensure that under Visual Studio Version, only Visual Studio 2013 is selected.

4. After the installation is complete, confirm that the drivers work by opening your cameras in SpinView

You should now be ready to get started with Spinnaker in Flexscan3D. Create a new HDI Advance and, when selecting cameras, Spinnaker should now appear in the drop-down menu.

Flexscan3D and the accelerator tool both require the scanner to have a specific firmware to operate. You can update the firmware by typing your scanner’s IP address in your web browser and selecting Manage > Maintenance > Upgrade…

kDiscovery

If you are having difficulty connecting your G3 to your PC, kDiscovery can help. The tool lets you verify and adjust the scanner’s IP settings independently of Flexscan3D.

Accelerator

It is possible to enable the accelerator without going through Flexscan3D. To do so, you can make use of the accelerator tool.