DAVID-Laserscanner

New Features:
- Image Grabber which can load a sequence of multiple image files
- Video Grabber can load a sequence of multiple video files
- Start with default camera settings for known cameras
- COM-Port: Set pin 4 (DTR) high during scanning, or alternate
- COM-Port: Accept commands through COM
- COM-Port: More different messages sent through COM
- COM-Port: Start/stop scan triggered by pin 1 (DCD)
- Scanning Without Background: Can be based on 'single motor steps' instead of 'time'
- Auto-Stop

Miscellaneous:
- New camera interface --> improved compatibility and speed
- Improved translation details
- Moved debug window setting from config.xml to Advanced Settings
- Prevent closing DAVID with the console window close button
- Remember debug console window position and size
- Polygon Selection Tool faster
- Shapefusion: Automatically remove empty scans after manual cleaning


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What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.3.4
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New Features:
- Calibration: Show marginal error of calibration (green lines)
- Shapefusion: "Save all scans in separate files"
- Scanning Without Background: Use remembered laser poses (interpolated) to avoid "macro waves"
- Scanning Without Background: New Advanced Settings: "UseRememberedPlanePoses" and "UseModelOutsideReferenceRange"

Bugfix:
- works again: Camera Calibration: Shows the markers that have been found even if calibration fails
- 3D Window: fixed problem with large objects (static->dynamic clipping planes)
- fixed display of average laser line width when at top image border

Miscellaneous:
- Increased number of mesh colors in ShapeFusion (12->48)
- Warning when no write access to DAVID folder
- Fixed memory leak on camera calibration
- Better visibility of eraser mask during camera calibration
- Scanning Without Background: Allow Background Filter in Repetition Scans
- Improved scanning speed
- Improved texture fusion speed on multi-core CPUs


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What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.3.3
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Bugfix:
- Sending Newline commands over COM port


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What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.3.2
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New Features:
- Scanning Without Background: New Advanced Settings value ScanStartDetectionMode
- Demo Mode


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What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.3
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New Features:
- Send commands through serial port
- Show scan quality feedback in Scan Result window

Bugfix:
- Apply filters when saving OBJ in Free Edition

Miscellaneous:
- Added Russian and Spanish localizations
- Scanning Without Background: Changed behaviour; each time you click Start, DAVID assumes a new laser motion has begun; no need to click "Erase"


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What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.2.2
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Bugfix:
- Saving to STL: Fixed triangle normals and possible crash


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What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.2.1
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Miscellaneous:
- Scanning Without Background:
- "Repetition" is now default setting
- Prevent switching between "Reference" and "Repetition" during scanning
- More helpful error message when OpenGL window could not be opened


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What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.2.0
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New Features:
- Convenient Windows installer / setup.
- Calibration: Improved robustness on low contrast images.
- Magnifying glass in live camera image (toggle with left mouse button).
- Laserscanner: More convenient and configurable depth image filtering.
- Laserscanner: Support of motor-driven scanning without background
(must be activated in advanced settings:
Laserscanner/LaserPlaneCalculation/LaserMotionEstimation/Enabled).
- Shapefusion: New RMB Menu entry "Properties" showing dimensions etc. of a scan

Bugfixes:
- Read all files (license, advanced settings etc.) from application path.
- No more crash on successive call of Simple->Poisson->Simple Fusion.
- Fixed problem on successive call of Simple Fusion -> mesh cleaning -> Simple Fusion.
- Fixed rarely occuring bug in Texture Fusion.
- Fixed rarely occuring bug in Poisson Fusion.

Miscellaneous:
- Added Polish localization
- Calibration: Much faster camera calibration.
- Laserscanner: 3D window of scan page hides when leaving scan page.
- Laserscanner: Do not open ShapeFusion's 3d window on "Forward".
- 3D Window: Advanced Settings value for texture size


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What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.1c:
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Bugfixes:
- Saving "All scans in one file" fixed.


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What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.1b:
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Bugfixes:
- Manual Cleaning Tool: Selection/Inversion/Deletion of visible scans only.

- Improved memory usage of Simple Fusion
- More robust camera calibration with new “V3” pattern
- Improved “scan quality feedback” display
- New Advanced Setting “Method1_MinFittingFactor”

What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.5.3

Miscellaneous:
- Improved Texture Fusion robustness and texture merging
- New Advanced Settings for Texture Fusion
- Improved texture view in 3D Window

Bugfix:
- Fixed display of background panels in 3D window
- Fixed Texture Fusion error caused by un-checked scans

What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.5.2

Miscellaneous:
- new Advanced Settings for individual poses of new “V3” calibration patterns

Bugfix:
- Fixed scanning with image rotation (reference image issue)
- Fixed msvc*.dll issue
- Fixed rare issue with texture in 3D Window on some PCs

What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.5.1

Bugfix:
- Fixed “mirror” issue with Logitech camera

What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.5

New features:
- Support for new calibration pattern “V3”

Miscellaneous:
- COM port: Open and close immediately after change in AdvancedSettings
- Improved estimation of motor-driven laser rotation

Bugfix:
- Saving with texture: don't complain about white spaces in folder names
- Fixed Progress Bar exception
- Load button on Laserscanner page disabled unless camera is calibrated
- Fixed un-combine
- Fixed estimation of linear laser motion
- Fixed de-allocation of memory after fusion

What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.4.9

Miscellaneous:
- Improved Texture Fusion so that result can be reduced better by Reduce Mesh Density

Bugfix:
- Fixed Progress Bar
- Fixed “This shadow line” mode

What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.4.8

Miscellaneous:
- Slightly improved coarse and fine registration

Bugfix:
- Fixed null pointer exception when clicking Save, then Cancel

What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.4.7

Miscellaneous:
- Added missing script commands “ReduceMesh” and “DelaunayOptimize“

Bugfix:
- Camera compatibility issue since version 2.4.5 fixed

What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.4.6

New features:
- Greek localization
- Support setups with rotated (upright) camera

Miscellaneous:
- Added COM command “Close”
- Added warning about losing texture when saving combined scan as “all scans in separate files”
- Improved outlier/reflexion filter during scanning
- Warn when texture filename contains white-spaces

Bugfix:
- Make sure the Progress Bar eventually disappears

What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.4.5

Bugfix:
- Fixed possible exception in texture fusion
- Fixed error in PNG texure loading

Miscellaneous:
- Added progress info dialog
- Texture Fusion: interpolate border colors
- Camera List: Add unique ID to each camera name

What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.4.4

New features:
- Support multiple image file formats for textures (BMP, GIF, EXIF, JPG, PNG and TIFF)
- Support Bayer color format (BY8)
- Shapefusion: Mesh Reduction: Reduce mesh density without losing edges

Miscellaneous:
- Save texture as PNG instead of BMP
- Workaround for camera driver bug: Try to force camera to use the settings from previous session

Bugfix:
- Fixed saving texture when using COM command “SaveScan“
- Corrected ToolTip of Combine button

What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.4.3

Miscellaneous:
- Replaced average smoothing by gauss smoothing that avoids bending of scan borders
- Open multiple files as command line parameters resp. by “Open with”
- Free Edition: Don't save single vertices
- Improved performance of 2D image dialogs
- Improved performance of Interpolate and Smooth filters on multicore CPUs
- Added EXPERIMENTAL structured light grabber
- Improved Shapefusion context menu:
→ allow selection of more than one item
→ changed order and added separator lines
→ new function Remove
→ new function Shrink
→ “combine” works on selected, not checked items

Bugfix:
- Don't close 3D Window on Uncombine
- Fixed camera calibration for e.g. worm's-eye view
- Fixed possible crash when changing resolution
- Fixed enabling buttons after loading mesh in Laserscanner
- Don't erase scan data when video source changes but resolution remains the same

What's New in DAVID-Laserscanner Version 2.4.2

Miscellaneous:
- Improved lens un-distortion in calculation of laser plane pose (method 1)
- More precise and robust calculation of laser plane pose (method 2)
- Allow display of camera image during scanning
- More robust camera calibration with stretched patterns

Bugfix:
- Remember camera resolution and frame rate
- Eraser faster again
- Texture Fusion: fixed tiling of textures
- Solved problems when some DAVID files were write protected