The large field of view that the work distance of 1500mm enables is a huge part of the appeal for me with the Einstar Vega, as it enables the scanning of large objects that don’t need high resolution.
The problem is that some objects don’t have a lot of features to track on, and then you need markers. You just introduced marker scanning in far mode, but only with a limited distance of 800mm, which is very disappointing, as it reduces the captured area to less than a third, and therefore we need to place more than 3x as many markers to get working tracking.
I guess that this is due to issues getting the Vega hardware to accurately pick up markers at the full working distance. If this is the case, and you don’t anticipate resolving that quickly with software, the obvious solution is to enable the use of larger markers.
There are already both 8, 12, 18 and 25mm retroreflective round markers on the market, so if you enabled the use of say 12mm markers with the 1500mm working distance and we could place many fewer markers, it would save me so much time.
To give you an example of why this is important, I got the Vega primarily to scan both the interior and exterior parts of my and my friends’ boats to plan renovations and digitally fit battery packs, solar panels, design accessories etc during the winter when the boats are winterized and covered up on land, but also to scan part of the boat hulls to design 3D printed molds for composite parts that should fit snugly to an existing shape.
There is often a lack of features for the Vega to track on for the exterior parts, but also for the interior parts with smooth walls. Sure, I can now turn on marker tracking, but I can then only capture less than a third of the area in the same frame, and the amount of markers needed to get the Vega to track for large scans becomes massive. The 1500mm work distance really is a key thing for this unit to be attractive.
For example, if I want to scan the shape of the hull side here, I don’t need a high resolution at all, I just want to be able to fit a surface to the curved shape, but it will probably require many hundred markers to cover the surface, making it impractical, especially as I will have to climb on a ladder to stick and remove them.
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