Ina Sthapit: Hey, guys.
I'm Ina from Nepal.
Sukrit Sen: And I'm Sukrit from India and we both are
US/ICOMOS interns working with NCPTT.
Today we are working on documenting the tenant farmer cabins along the Cane River in Natchitoches,
Louisiana and we are using the FARO S Scanner.
Now before we set it up, there are three things that we need to take into consideration, the
sensors.
Sukrit Sen: We set up the compass first and while the
FARO S Scanner is setting up the compass, the two other things that I have already set
for you guys is the inclinometer, which makes sure that the scanner is standing straight
on the ground and of course the GPS, which gives a scanner an idea of where we actually
are.
Sukrit Sen: Now that the campus is set, the other thing
that I'm going to make sure is the profile and the profile for today would be outdoor
and since the building is quite close to us, it would be less than 10 meters.
When we scan a building, we can either scan it from the scanner itself or we can connect
it with the laptop and ask the computer to control it.
Ina, my colleague will take over from this end.
Ina Sthapit: Once the scanner has its WLAN turned on, it
sets up its own wifi signal all around it.
Once I connect my laptop to it with the IP address, I can see the screen of the scanner
onto my laptop.
So now I can control the scanner with my laptop.
If I click on the start button, then the scanner starts to work and starts to scan the scene.
Sukrit Sen: I didn't touch it.
Sukrit Sen: We need to take multiple scans of the body
or the building we are scanning.
We need to make sure that we put the scanner in appropriate places so that it captures
all of it.
So for example, if we need to capture the portion underneath the roof, we need to keep
the scanner on the porch.
We also need to make sure that when we are connecting the interiors with the exteriors,
we need to keep the scanner in certain positions so that it captures a bit of the exterior
and the interior together so that it's easier for us to stitch the scans.
Ina Sthapit: Now I'm going to show you how we stitch the
scans and process the scans in the software.
If you can see here this is the same software that we basically used for the FARO Laser
Scanner.
This is its own software which allows us to process the scans and finally make it into
the 3D model.
So this is the area [inaudible 00:03:03] that we've just laser scanned in the site and all
the scans have been imported to the software.
The software has actually stitched all the scans together.
Once the scans have been stitched all together, then it looks something like this.
Ina Sthapit: This is the [Bentley 0.2 00:03:19] software,
which actually allows us to make the autographic images and work with the animation with the
whole 3D model.
I have already imported the model from the FARO SCENE software, and this is how it looks
over here.
Basically for this software, the animation wizard that we use is the fly-through or the
orbit.
The fly-through allows you to go through the building and see the whole building inside
and out.
Whereas the orbit shows you the periphery of the whole building.
Using these tools, we can actually make an animation of the building.
So this is our final product video and this is how it looks like after the final animation
done and the renderings where the Windows Movie Maker.
Sukrit Sen: If you're interested in the work that we are
doing and knowing more about the scanner and other instruments that NCPTT has...
Ina Sthapit: Then please visit our website and thank you
for watching.