jedfrechette wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:00 pm
I'm pretty sure all Faro scanners take longer than the "spec sheet time" too. Honestly, I haven't paid to much attention though. For these kinds of estimating purposes I've always just bundled together scan time and setup time, i.e. in a particular type of environment how many scans can an experienced operator do in 1 hour. Usually that number comes from experience on previous similar projects rather than trying to estimate it from first principles.
It was so long ago I used a Faro so I can't actually remember either, I think I just trusted the numbers then as well and didn't think much of it. It is quite hard in the field to know if you waited 180 seconds or 200 seconds without timing it.
Previously we have always done as you said. But as I said, I wanted a better way to calculate this. Sometimes projects takes longer than expected and sometimes shorter so it
jamesworrell wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:54 pm
For one - the timer gives a visual indication of the current config. I know I want a 1:51 scan for example which is medium colour - and you can see this from a distance. Perhaps from a UX perspective a colour coded screen could be a more visual indicator, but the timer tells me very quickly what I want to know.
Higher accuracy IMU does add another turn or so.
To have a timer show your config is a quite bad UX, since you already have your config below. Why would I need to see my settings from far away? Before scanning I will have to press play on the scanner anyway, and then I am perfectly close to seeing my settings. Or I start the scanner from the app and then I see my settings there as well.
Yes, I know higher accuracy mode does another turn, but does it add time to the timer? Is a high accuracy medium scan with photos 2:15 for example? If it is, then why not just add all the different steps to the timer. You would still be able to see from far away if it is a medium scan, it would just say 2:10 instead. Plus the timer would actually work as a timer, which should be the main function of having a timer.