This was the only app that offered control of all of the various options available to BLK360 users, for instance control of the HDR camera or the IR camera, and various scan density settings. I started off using the Leica BLK360 App. With that out of the way, let’s dig into the user GUIs. If you have no hotspot, and no data package, you’re out of luck. As I didn’t have the cellular package on my iPad, I would turn my phone into a hotspot, sign in to each app, turn off the hotspot and re-acquire the BLK360’s Wi-Fi signal. If this locked up the app I was using at the time, I would perform a soft reboot of the iPad (hold power and home buttons for 5-10 seconds) and be forced to sign in again to each app. I would sometimes lose connectivity with the BLK360 as well. This can require an extra 7-8 minutes if you are scanning at high density. ![]() You can move the scanner to a new position while you wait, but you can’t start scanning again until the transfer is complete. ![]() While this is handy, the WiFi is also the bottleneck in the scanning workflow, because the scanner will finish when the data transfer is only at 33%. Once scanning begins with, say, Leica’s BLK360 app, the data is transferred to the iPad via WiFi. The WiFi transfer scheme did cause a problem. ![]() I did not have any issues related to processing power or the iPad. WiFi caveatsįor the purposes of testing, I loaded all of the apps onto an Apple iPad Pro, (512GB, WiFi). As a result, most of the remainder of this review will be dedicated to these various apps, since the app you use can dramatically change your perspective on the BLK360. All of them seemed to perform some level of subsampling or filtering that reduced the point density, or otherwise affected the collected data. ![]() The BLK360 data is treated differently by each control app. For part one, which covers hardware and data quality, click here. This is part two of Sam’s review of the BLK360, which covers the software.
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