Additional Specialty Profiles

 

The ATS600 also offers the following additional Profiles:

Parameters used for these scans are defined in advance as part of a measurement profile definition. To do so, select one of the predefined profiles as the active measurement profile and press the View Selected Profile button to edit the profile settings.

 

Patch Scans

The Patch Scan Cloud profile was added to facilitate auto-measure type operations where the reference points define the center of a patch of a give size. Selecting points from SA defines a collection of scan regions on the controller such that each point is scanned using a square patch.

A Patch Scan profile offers the following settings:

 

From the Patch Scan profile window:

  1. Select “Add Patch(es)-SA Pts” to select points from SA. Hit “Enter” to create the patches, and update the OVC if it is open.

  2. Se the Patch Size as needed to define the size of the patch and edit the Patch Angle to adjust the scan direction (if helpful in applications like intensity target scanning).

  3. Select “View Patches” to open the OVC to show your patches and control the region density, or to update the OVC with changed settings.

The patch size (length of square perimeter around each selected point, perpendicular to tracker line of sight) can be set here as well. Patches are shown in the OVC’s Regions tab. Point to Point spacing and Grow / Shrink Width is set there, like it is for Area Scans (both are per-region parameters).

Note - Any pre-existing Patch perimeters are cleared when creating new ones, unlike perimeters in an Area Scan, where new perimeters are added, and existing regions are not cleared.

 

 

Ring Scan

Ring Scan definitions provide a means to measure a full arc about the tracker. This is accomplished using a Ring Scan Acquisition. This is the only profile that does not offer access to the OVC. The ring scan definitions are defined only using a Zenith angle (zero be- ing straight upward and 90 degree being straight outward from the tracker base) and a point / line spacing definition.

 

A Ring Scan profile offers the following settings:

NOTE: You can move the tracker head to the desired position, and click directly in the profile grid on the Min Zenith and Max Zenith la- bels to make the tracker set these by measuring the vertical encoder of the tracker. The values are always in degrees. The current azimuth (horizontal angle) position of the tracker will not matter for this set- ting.

NOTE: You can move the tracker head to the desired position, and click directly in the profile grid on the Min Distance and Max Distance labels to make the tracker set these by measuring the distance to the surface where it is pointing.

 

Defining Measurement Profiles for the ATS600 in SpatialAnalyzer -