Real-Time Meshing Controls

Real-Time Meshing

A real-time mesh can be enabled during scanning. This can be quite useful as an easy to see coverage indicator and provides a surface like rendering of the data.

In order to enable the Real-Time Mesh go to the User Options and on the Display tab select Clouds & Mesh (Figure 26-13). Within this default control is an option to enabled the Mesh Display.

The mesh is displayed in two colors.

Defaults can be set using the predefined Fast or Standard options. Or your settings can be customized with the following controls:

At any time you can also right-click on a scan stripe cloud and generate a finalized

 

Real-Time Scanning Drift Check

When enable, the Real-Time mesh also offers a live scanning drift check notification. This offers the ability to Jump Instrument to New Location if the newest measured mesh segment differs in alignment from the rest of the mesh by a given mount. This Drift Detection threshold is set within the Real-time mesh settings.

If you press No its quite possible that there is a misalignment between different scan passes. SA also offers an option to align scan passes within a cloud which may improve data integrity in a case like this.

Note -- If you want to disable this notification process for any reason you can do so by entering “0” for the Drift Detection [ ... ](Grid Size) value.