DAVID 3.x User Manual Pages

1. Overview
2. Hardware Setup
3. Camera Calibration
4. 3D Laser Scanning
5. 3D Structured Light Scanning
6. Texturing
7. Shape Fusion

The DAVID 3 window mainly consist of three parts:

On the left side you can see 5 expandable menus, which you will usually walk through from top to bottom:

1. Hardware Setup: Choose what kind of setup you have, and choose and configure your camera (and projector)
2. Camera Calibration: Configure and calibrate your camera
3. 3D Laser Scanning OR Structured Light: Perform scans!
4. Texturing (optional): Take color texture shots for each scan
5. Shape Fusion: Align and fuse several scans to one closed model

The 3D View in the center consists of a tab control at the top that can be used to switch between the 'Current Scan' View and the 'Collected Scans' View.

This View shows DAVID's model of the scanning scene, and it always shows automatically what is currently relevant. Additionally you can navigate freely using the mouse (left/right mouse buttons to move and rotate view, right-click to center view, mouse wheel for zooming etc) or you can use the “Fly to” buttons at the top to get standard views, e.g. the live camera view.

This View shows all collected or loaded scan results in one 3d view and allows you to aligned and fused them using the Shape Fusion Menu.

On the right side you can see 3-4 expandable menus, which show some additional informations and tools:

1. Manual Motor Control (if a motorized setup was choosen)
2. List of Scans
3. Scan Properties
4. Working Directory