Isel ISY 3DSCAN User manual

Getting Started Guide
Version 1.1
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© 2012 Isel Germany AG

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ISY 3D SCAN
Contents of Package
 SL Scanner pre-mounted, consisting of
 Video projector
 Camera with focusable lens
 Mounting rack with ball joint (for camera)
 Profile table
 2 calibration panels with 2 mounting tracks 90°
 USB drive with ISY 3D SCAN Pro Edition and camera drivers
 Accessories for projector
 External wall power supply
 Remote control
 VGA cable
 HDMI cable
 2 AV cables (not required for scanner)
 User Manual
 USB cable for camera
 Cable straps
System Requirements
 Windows XP, Vista or 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)
 3D graphics adapter
 Available VGA or HDMI port
 Two available USB ports
 Recommended: Dual-core processor, 2 GHz, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA or AMD graphics adapter
Safety Instructions
 Only operate the scanner in a dry environment.
 Do not operate the scanner in areas where there is a risk of explosion.
 Repairs to the scanner or its components may only be performed by an authorized service
centre or the ISEL after-sales service.
 Do not make changes of any kind to your scanner.

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Preparation
Setup
Before connecting the devices, adapt the whole scanner setup to the size of the object or surface
region you want to scan.
The intersection angle between projection and camera view should be around 20°-25° (max. 15°-
35°).
The following table should give you some indications for an optimal setup:
Size of scan
object /
surface region s
Calibration
pattern
Lens distance
bbetween
camera and
projector
Distance d
between
scanner and
object
Achievable scan
resolution (approx.
0.2% of object size)
<30 mm 30 mm ca. 30 mm ca. 90 mm < 0.1 mm
50 mm 60 mm ca. 40 mm ca. 120 mm ca. 0.1 mm
70 mm 60 mm ca. 65 mm ca. 180 mm ca. 0.15 mm
90 mm 120 mm ca. 80 mm ca. 220 mm ca. 0.2 mm
120 mm 120 mm ca. 110 mm ca. 300 mm ca. 0.25 mm
150 mm 120 mm ca. 125 mm ca. 350 mm ca. 0.3 mm
200 mm 240 mm ca. 160 mm ca. 450 mm ca. 0.4 mm
300 mm 240 mm ca. 250 mm ca. 700 mm ca. 0.6 mm
500 mm 240 mm ca. 400 mm ca. 1200 mm ca. 1.0 mm
in general similar to object angle 20°-25°
between them
object should fill
camera image
ca. 0.2% of object
size
The camera can be mounted left or right of the projector – depending on how a suitable distance
between their lenses can be achieved. The scanner can also be mounted vertical, with camera
and projector above each other.
(top view)
(side view)
distance d distance b
20-25°
object size s

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Installation
Connect all components as depicted below:
Installation of the Camera Drivers
1. Plug the USB drive into your PC, then choose “Open” resp. “Explorer”.
2. Launch “Install_CCD-Camera_Driver“ (may require administrator rights).
3. Follow the instructions on screen.
Projector Settings
The projector is shipped with optimal settings. We recommend not to change anything in the
projector's on-screen menu.
You can restore the recommended settings in the projector's on-screen menu any time:
1. Select “Reset“
2. Be sure to switch “Auto Keystone“ OFF, and set the manual Keystone value to 0.
For more information, please refer to the projector's User Manual.
USB
VGA / HDMI

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Setup Projector as Extended Desktop in Windows
With your right mouse button, click on a free space on your Windows desktop. Choose “Resolution”
or “Properties” (depending on your Windows version).
In this dialogue window, you can separately change the settings of your two displays, monitor and
projector.
Your monitor should be set as “main display”. Set the projector to be an extended desktop (“extend
these displays” / “extend desktop to this display”).
This setting is required so that ISY 3D SCAN can project its scan patterns and show the user
interface on your computer screen at the same time.
When these settings are correct, your monitor and projector will show different contents (but with
the same desktop wallpaper). You can move the mouse pointer sideways from the monitor into the
projected image. The Windows Taskbar and most desktop icons will be shown only on the monitor.
All windows can be moved from monitor to projector, and vice versa.
If the ISY 3D SCAN main window is shown on your projector, grab its title bar with the mouse and
move it over to your monitor.

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Scanning with ISY 3D SCAN
Launch ISY 3D SCAN by starting “Start_ISY 3D SCAN “ on your USB key.
On the left side you can see the expandable main menus. Each menu is dedicated to one of the
following work steps, which you will usually walk through from top to bottom.
For the individual work steps, different camera and/or projector settings may be optimal. For
example, Camera Calibration may require a different Exposure Time, or Texturing may require a
darker projector setting. The respective controls are available at all times, and ISY 3D SCAN will
remember and restore the settings separately for each work step – depending on which menu is
currently expanded.
Our software is developed and improved continuously. Therefore, please use the automatic update.
Calibration of the Scanner
One advantage of the modular setup is that its size can be adjusted to very different object sizes.
Therefore, calibration (measurement of the current hardware setup in the software) is required,
allowing the software to obtain undistorted 3D data at the correct scale. We use a calibration corner
as reference, whose properties are known precisely.
The three steps, hardware setup, camera calibration and projector calibration, must be carried out
in the following order.
1. Menu “Hardware Setup“: Adjustment and settings of projector and camera
1. Select setup type “Structured Light Setup“.
2. Choose the correct “Screen ID“ such that the stripe pattern is projected by the projector.
3. Place the scanner in front of the scanned object and adjust the projector's position and
direction so that its projection illuminates the scanned surface – not less, but also not much
more.
4. Use the projector's focus ring to adjust sharpness, such that the black and white stripes are
well focused on the object surface.
5. Below “Camera”, select your camera (CAM-2-M). You will see the live view. If necessary,
roughly adjust the camera's mechanic aperture and focus ring.
6. Aim the camera so that it can see the projected pattern on the object. Then fix the ball joint.
7. The Exposure Time should be set to 1/60s, otherwise the camera image might flicker or
pulse when looking at the projection.

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8. Adjust the mechanic aperture at the camera's lens. Regard only those image regions that
show the circular wave pattern: The red intensity curves must be sinusoidal and must not
be over- or under-saturated. In other words, the red sine curve must not be cut off at the
blue borders.
Too dark.
→→ Increase aperture size
Perfectly adjusted,
sine wave nearly reaches the
blue borders.
Too bright,
Sine wave is cut off
(overdriven).
→→ Decrease aperture size
The Projector Brightness control should be at maximum in most cases. Only reduce it if a clean,
undistorted sine wave cannot be obtained otherwise.
9. Look at the projected grey planes in the camera image. Adjust camera focus (mechanic
focus ring) so that the object is depicted as sharp as possible. Also you can use the
projected black and white stripes for focussing.
10.Fasten all screws (projector, ball joint of camera) so that nothing can be dislocated from
now on.
2. Menu “Camera Calibration“
1. Select a calibration pattern size which fits to the object (see table on page 3). Set up the
calibration corner at precisely 90°, using the mounting tracks. For starters, the pattern
should be flapped to the inside, while advanced users may be able to reduce reflections
with a concave corner setup.
2. Remove the object and set up the scanner and the calibration corner in front of each other,
with approx. the same distance as the object before. The projection and camera image
should be well focused.
The camera image must show at least the 6 ring markers and a few dot markers. The
whole camera image should be filled with around 15 to 70 calibration markers, and the

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camera should not able to look past the calibration boards.
You can move, rotate and tilt the scanner as a whole, but you should not change anything
above the red mounting rack.
3. Enter the scale size of the calibration pattern at “Calibr. Scale”. You can find the number
printed on the panels right next to the respective pattern.
4. The projector now shows a plane white or grey face. You can adjust its brightness wit the
Projector Brightness control, so that the calibration markers are clearly visible in the
camera image. If there is enough environment light in the room, you can set the control to
0.
If necessary, you can adjust the camera Exposure too.

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5. Click “Calibrate“ in order to calibrate the camera.
In this step the software computes the position and orientation of the camera, as well as
the focal length and distortion parameters of its lens.
6. From this moment on, do not move or adjust anything at the scanner – otherwise you will
have to repeat the calibration.
3. Menu “Structured Light Scanning“: Calibration of the projector
1. When you open the Structured Light Scanning menu, the projector will again show the
setup pattern, and both projector and camera will be set back to the settings you have
made in step 1.
2. Select a profile (recommended: “default“).
3. Check the camera image again. In those areas that show the circular wave pattern, the red
intensity curves must not be cut off at the blue borders. Carefully adjust the lens aperture if
necessary, but be sure not to change the focus.
4. Click “Calibrate” in order to calibrate the projector.
In this step the software measures the position and orientation of the projector, its focal
length and distortion coefficients, as well as optical transmission properties and delays of
the whole system.
Your scanner is now calibrated. This refers to the position and orientation of camera and projector
relative to each other, and the focus and brightness settings. You may move, rotate and tilt the
scanner as a whole, and you can close and restart the ISY 3D SCAN software, without losing the
calibration.
However, if you rotate camera or projector with respect to each other or change the focus (e.g. in
order to scan much smaller or larger objects), you will have to repeat the whole calibration
procedure.

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3D Scanning
Menu “Structured Light Scanning“
Place scanner and object in front of each other, like you did during calibration.
If the distance is too different, the projected stripes and camera image will be out of focus. In
this case, correct the distance, not the focus rings.
Important: For each scan, observe that the red sine waves are not cut off / overdriven (this
refers only to the image regions where the circular wave pattern is visible). Should a correction
be required, carefully adjust the camera aperture, but do not change the focus.
 Each click on “Start” performs a new scan.
ISY 3D SCAN projects a set of different stripe patterns and records the images. This takes 2-4
seconds, depending on the settings.
 If you check the “Auto. grab texture” option, ISY 3D SCAN will record a texture with each scan.
If the texture is too bright or too dark, you can adjust the texture settings in the Texturing menu
(see below).

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 With your mouse, you can rotate, move and zoom the 3D view.
 The scans need to overlap sufficiently so that they can be combined/aligned later on.
Generally, 6-8 scans of different views around an object are required, plus possibly a few of
the top and bottom sides.
Grabbing a texture with each scan can help with the automatic or manual alignment.
 Save each successful scan as an OBJ file (“Save As“) and/or add it to the List of Scans.
After each click on “Add to list”, you can immediately align the new scan to the previous ones
(Shapefusion menu, see next chapter). Alternatively, you can first collect more scans in the
Structured Light menu, and align them all later.
Menu “Texturing”
You can record a texture with each scan. It is coloured if you are using a colour camera, otherwise
it is greyscale.
The texture usually requires different illumination settings. When the Texturing menu is open, you
can adjust Projector Brightness, camera Exposure or other camera properties as you like, without
influencing the scan settings. A decent texture is like a good photo: uniform illumination, not too
bright, not too dark. It may be helpful not to use the projector as a light source (set Projector
Brightness to 0), but instead use diffuse environment light in the room.
 The button “Grab Texture” records a new textures and applies it to the scan at hand.
 All settings here are stored separately. For the following scans, you will not have to open the
Texturing menu each time. Instead you can use the “Auto. grab texture” option in the
Structured Light menu.

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Alignment and Fusion of Multiple Scans
Menu “Shape Fusion“
This menu offers to 1. align several scans to each other and 2. fuse them to one closed 360°
model. You can export the fused object in various file formats and use it e.g. for 3D printing. In the
following we describe the general case of aligning scans from arbitrary perspectives.
1. Scan Alignment
Single scans are usually collected in the List of Scans, using the “Add to List” button during
scanning. You can also import scans from OBJ files by drag-and-drop or with the “+” button
below the list.
Hint: Each scan can be toggled visible/invisible with the button.
Hint: If necessary, you can clean your scan with the Selection Tool. At this time you should
only remove surface areas which are not useful for alignment, i.e. which no pair of scans
have in common.
Hint: With the Arrange buttons you can arrange all scans next to each other in
order to get a good overview.
ISY 3D SCAN offers several alignment modes. In general you should start with the “Free”
mode, which aligns one scan to one other with each step. In order for the automatic mode to
find the correct alignment, the scans have to overlap sufficiently, i.e. contain a good portion
of identical areas.
The button starts the alignment mode. In the 3D view, first click on the scan you want to
align, “Scan A”. Then click on the scan you want to align it to, “Scan B”. These images show
an alignment of the blue scan to the green one:
Subsequently, align more scans to those previously aligned. Always select pairs which
overlap as much as possible. In the example shown above, a good next step would be to
align the yellow scan to the blue one, and so on.
After all scans have been aligned, you should run the „Global Fine Registration“ mode.

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Hint: All scan movements can be undone separately with the “Undo” button .
Hint: You can save your single scans at any time. They will be saved in their current position
and rotation in space, so you won't have to align them again.
Hint: After some alignment steps it can be helpful to “combine” several scans temporarily.
Select two or more scans in the List of Scans (press and hold the Ctrl key while you click).
Then click on them with the right mouse button, and choose “Combine”. This puts the
selected scans into one group temporarily and allows you to tread them all as one. In our
example, the Büssing bust, we might combine scans 1 and 4 (or all scans 1-4) and then
align scan 5 to that group. This way scan 5 would be aligned to all scans, which includes
more overlapping areas and thus can lead to a more precise alignment.
Right-click on the group's name in the list and choose “Uncombine” to separate the group
again.
If automatic alignment cannot solve an alignment task correctly, you can align scans
manually by mouse, keeping the Ctrl key pressed. Please refer to the online manual for
details.
2. Scan Fusion
Only visible scans will be fused, so select all scans with the button.
Click “Fuse” to start the Fusion. This is a complex process which requires a computation
time of several seconds or minutes. All visible scans will be merged to one closed triangle
mesh, removing small artefacts. If the scans have textures, a fused texture will also be
created. Optionally, all holes will be closed.
 Finally you can use the “Save” button to export your fused 3D model as OBJ, STL or PLY
file.

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Terms of Warranty
This device was manufactured using the latest production methods and has been carefully
inspected. All ISEL products are subjected to rigorous quality control. If this device nevertheless
fails to perform faultlessly, this is something we regret and we ask you to consult your supplier.
The following conditions apply to warranty claims:
This warranty is valid for a period of 24 months from the day of purchase. Please keep the
receipt carefully as proof of purchase when making a warranty claim.
The defective product may be returned to your supplier during the warranty period. If the warranty
claim is valid you will be entitled to the repair of your device or a new device will be given to you.
This is free of charge. Alternatively a warranty claim can be settled through reimbursement of the
purchase price. After the warranty period has expired you still have the option of sending the
defective device to your supplier or to the ISEL after-sales service for repair. Repairs made after
expiry of warranty will be subject to a charge. Your statutory rights are not affected through this
warranty.
Damage caused through improper handling, use, storage, changes to the electronics, lens or
housing, or through Acts of God or other external influences or any operation outside of the
technical specifications are not covered by this warranty.
Before returning the device please contact your supplier to ensure your warranty claim is
processed as efficiently as possible. If it is not possible to process your warranty claim through your
supplier, you may as an exceptional case contact the ISEL after-sales service directly.
Disposal / Recycling
Waste batteries or accumulators may not be disposed of as household waste.
Every consumer has a statutory obligation to properly dispose of these items at
officially designated points of disposal. Never discard electronic components of
the ISEL in standard household waste. In accordance with the EU Directive
2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment this must be disposed
of in accordance with local regulations. You can dispose of the product at your
local public point for collection of electronic waste.
© 2012 isel Germany AG