Viametris iMS3D User manual

VIAMETRIS
Koï Center –Bd de la Communication –53950 Louverné –France
iMS3D
Operating Guide
Version
Current iMS3D version
Date
Document v2.12
iMS3D –iMMSv2e
December 2017

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CONTENT
1INTRODUCTION & PRELIMINARY 4
1.1 NORMAL CONDITIONS 4
1.2 COMPONENT LISTS 4
2MOUNT YOUR SYSTEM 5
3START SCANNING 9
4DATA TRANSFER 12
5RECHARGING THE TABLET ON BOARD 13
6SWITCH-OFF AND BOX STORING 13
7SYSTEM VEC FILE 16
7.1 MEANING 16
7.2 HOW TO UPDATE IT 16
8USAGE RECOMMENDATIONS 16
8.1 SITE PREPARATION 16
8.2 OPERATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS 16
8.2.1 GENERAL ADVISES ON SCOUT ROLE AND POSITIONING; 17
8.2.2 LIGHT CONDITIONS: 18
8.2.3 ARCHITECTURAL CONDITIONS: 20
8.2.4 DOORS:HOW TO HANDLE “OPEN/CLOSE”22
8.2.5 HOW TO HANDLE BUSY ROOMS (FURNITURE/STORAGE) 23
8.2.6 RAMP UP/DOWN 23
8.2.7 HOW TO MOVE THE CART AND TRAJECTORY. 25
8.2.8 TRAFFIC ON THE FLOOR. 25
8.2.9 STAIRWAYS RELATED RECOMMENDATIONS 26
8.2.10 CELLARS AND MANSARD ROOFED ATTICS: 26
8.2.11 USAGE OF VIAMETRIS TARGETS 27
8.2.12 USAGE OF PAUSE VS STOP (WHEN TO DO,PRECAUTIONS TO TAKE) 27
9SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS: 28
10 TRADEMARKS 28
11 SITE CHECK LIST 29

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12 TROUBLESHOOTING 30
13 TABLE OF FIGURES. 31

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1 INTRODUCTION &PRELIMINARY
1.1 NORMAL CONDITIONS
iMS3D stands for “indoor Mobile Scanning” and 3D for “3D point cloud”. We remind the user that the
iMS3D is a surveying equipment dedicated to indoor jobs and mainly for building areas. Indeed, the
iMS3D has been build and designed for such environment and every sensor, mechanics and electronic
components has been chosen in order to fit the building measurement requirements.
1.2 COMPONENT LISTS
Figure 1: Roller frame
Figure 2: Mast Frame #1
Figure 3: Mast frame #2 including the handle
Figure 4: Processing unit
Figure 5: Sensor unit
Figure 6: Rugged Tablet & charger

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Figure 7: System Charger
Figure 8: Embedded Tablet charger: this one should be
used when scanning
Figure 9: MOLEX connector to activate the battery
Figure 10: XLR connector used for chargers to be connected
to the processing unit
2 MOUNT YOUR SYSTEM
1. Open the boxes and start with the one which contains the kart
2. Put the roller frame on the floor

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3. Select the next Mast frame #1 and screw it on the roller
4. Select the next Mast frame and screw it using the same method:
5. Mount the camera frame on the sensor unit –the Ladybug camera gets six (6) different
cameras spread on a pentagon: Five (5) all around and one (1) on the top.
THE CAMERA INDEX #0 MUST BE ORIENTED FORWARD
6. Mount the unit on the frame
7. The sensor unit needs to be placed with a 15 degrees angle with respect to the frame

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8. Once the sensor unit is placed on the frame, turn it sharply to lock the sensor unit on the frame
9. Install the processing unit using by facing the three plastic hooks to the holes in the mast frame

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10. Plug every cable to the sensor unit. No confusion is possible.
11. You can plug the tablet using the USB3 to Ethernet device and put the tablet on the stand
For safety reason, VIAMETRIS disconnect the battery “molex” connector. This is a
hardware switch which disconnect the battery since this molex is not plugged.
Then, your first start requires you to open the battery compartment under the
computer (Processing unit) and plug the molex to the battery.

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3 START SCANNING
1- POWER ON THE SYSTEM
FIRST CASE - Switch on the system by pressing the Black switch on the processing unit’s top

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SECOND CASE –From system version “iMMSv2e”, the system embeds power control board with
a different switch: non-permanent Push Button with blue light circle. Push the button at least one
second until the light is flashing
Note:
Then, the blue light is flashing every second until the system has properly started - Once initialized and ready to go,
the light is on.
By switching on the system, the computer will beep, the profilers will start with LEDs and the camera will have one
Green/Orange LED on.
All the iMS3D version with serial number prefix iMMSv2a, iMMSv2b, iMMSv2c
and iMMSv2d are designed without power control board. It means that the user
must respect the process to power off the system.
Otherwise, the embedded computer could be DAMAGED