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Connecting your scanner

Connecting your scanner - Meshmixer Tutorial

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Connecting your scanner

- In this video, we'll connect our sensor to our computer and set up the Skanect software in preparation for making a 3D scan. First, plug your sensor into the USB port of your computer. Then, start the Skanect software. You'll want to check three things. First, that the sensor is connected. Second, scanning is a resource heavy activity. You may need to install updated video card drivers for your computer's best performance. If GPU is available, make sure that it's activated by choosing Settings, then selecting GPU. Third, check your license. I'm using the pro license, but the basic free license will work for the purposes of this course, but the quality of your export will be limited to 5,000 triangles. Let's go back to New. We can choose our Scene type. We'll choose Body and then set our bounding box just a little smaller to point seven meters. The aspect ratio of one to one to one will work well for us so we'll leave that alone. You need to set the path and file name. Press Start to…

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