User guide

Chapter 3: How to Scan Scanning with the Harmony Scan Module
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6. Click Preview to view the changes.
7. Keep adjusting these values until you get the effect you want. These values will be applied to all the subsequent
drawings you scan.
NOTE:
To keep the image from a trial scan without having to re-scan the drawing, press the Save button. This assigns the
image to the currently selected drawing name in the Drawing List and marks it as Scanned.
Scanning Drawings
After building your exposure sheet, opening the cells in the Scan module, configuring your scanner, fine tuning your
scan settings and previewing your scanned drawings, you are now ready to begin the final scanning process.
There are five ways in which you can feed your drawings through the scanner:
• Autofeed: Scan the drawings in the automatic document feeder (ADF).
• Autofeed (One): Scan the drawings in the ADF one at a time, and click Scan for each drawing.
• Pegged: Scan a drawing on the scanner, and click Scan each time you change the drawing on the scanner.
• Pegged (Many): Automatically scan the drawing in the scanner every five to ten seconds (depending on the
time required to process the drawings).
However, this mode does not scan each drawing automatically when you click the Preview button.
• Pan Cel: Scan a drawing into the system in separate sections, because the drawing is bigger than the scan
window.
You may find that the Autofeed option is not available on your system, since your scanner may not support it. The field
size you select can also determine which mode is available.
• All scanning modes support 12 field.
• The Autofeed modes do not support 16 field or higher.
When you start scanning your drawings, the Scan module scans the drawings in the order in which they appear in the
Drawing List. After setting these options, you may only need to perform Previewing Scanned Drawings and Scanning
Drawings for future scans.
NOTE:
• If you want to reverse the order of these drawings, select Edit > Reverse List Order.
• If you want to make any other sorting changes, you can reselect the drawings from the Drawing Selector
dialog box. For more information about the Drawing Selector, refer to the
Creating Scenes, Elements and
Drawing Lists topic.
• You may need to re-enter your list of drawings using the File > Build Manual List command. Refer to
Advanced Scanning Techniques topic to learn more about manual drawing list.
Scanning with the Automatic Document Feeder
If the selected scanner supports an automatic document feeder (ADF), you can select Autofeed or Autofeed (One)
to scan the drawings.
• Autofeed: Scans all the drawings in the ADF.
• Autofeed (One): Scan the drawings in the ADF one at a time, and click Scan for each drawing.
You can use the ADF to scan a stack of drawings continuously on a black and white scanner. Many scanner models
support up to A3-sized paper in the ADF (15 field). If you are scanning a 16 field drawing, you may have to manually
peg it on the scanner.
Since you must splice the multiple drawings in a pan cel together once you’ve scanned them all, you cannot feed pan
drawings through the ADF. When you use the black and white scanner’s ADF to scan a stack of drawings, the scanner
optically detects the peg holes on the drawing and registers the image accordingly.
To scan your drawing using the automatic document feeder (ADF):
1. Launch the Scan module and load your drawing list. Refer to the Launching the Harmony Scan Module and
Loading Drawings topic to learn how.