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Set Scan Navigation direction

Set Scan Navigation direction - PointSense Building Tutorial

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Set Scan Navigation direction

- [Instructor] When we're using scan navigation, we select the scan bubble and it jumps into the position that the scanner was in when the scan was first started. Then we have to rotate and pan in order to find the components that we want to view. We can however, set our scan navigation to look at a point of interest in the point cloud and then each time we select a new scan position, the object of interest will be in the center of the view. So let's take a look and I'll show you what that means. So let's go ahead and create our scan labels. Turn our scan navigation mode on and let's jump into scan. Now you notice I've jumped into that scan position but my scanner's facing the wrong way from the building. I'll have to pan around in order to see the building here. Alternately when I jump into the scan, I'm looking the wrong way again. I have to pan around in order to see the building. And when I'm inside here, my scan automatically faces this target here and depending on what I want to…

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