This actual picture of the Projector shows the rectangular grid-like projection of light. The brighter horizontal line is the laser's scan line.

Current Help System: PC-DMIS Laser (View Core Help)

### Laser Probe Toolbox: Laser Scan Properties tab

Probe Toolbox - Laser Scan Properties tab

The Laser Scan Properties tab defines how data from the scan will be acquired and whether or not scan lines and feature visualizations be displayed in the Graphics Display window.

- Visualization Tools ON/OFF - This toggles the display of the colored visualization tools. See "Understanding the Visualization Tools" for more information.

- Sound ON/OFF - This turns the sound on or off. See "Using Sound Events".

- Initialize Probe - This button starts or initializes the laser. You can't do anything with the laser until it is initialized. This takes about 15 seconds. (This button appears on this tab for portable configurations.)

- Projector: This is only available for V5 Perceptron probes on manual arms. Clicking this button turns on a projected grid of red light
  that will shine on the part. This acts like the cross hairs on a target. As you move your probe toward or away from your part, your probe's laser scan line moves through this target. For optimal results, your laser's scan line should line up with the center line of this target. This essentially serves the same purpose as the scan line indicator, helping you to keep the probe at the optimal height when measuring the part. Since this only functions in manual applications, this icon is disabled if using the Probe Toolbox within the Auto Feature dialog box.

- Show/Hide Stripes - This toggles the display of the laser stripes on the part model. Clicking this button causes the laser scan stripes to be displayed in real-time. PC-DMIS limits how the stripes are displayed in the Graphics Display window to the distance of the feature nominal plus the Overscan value. The Overscan value controls how much of the stripe is clipped and visible to the user. The graphic below gives and example of how these stripes are displayed.

Scan Features showing stripes

Other possible properties for this tab are:

- Sensor Frequency

- Row Overlap

- Overscan

- Exposure

- Point Cloud

- Sensitivity (for CMS Sensors)

- Scan Modes (for CMS Sensors)