User guide

Chapter 3: How to Scan Scanning with the Harmony Scan Module
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The Scan module considers peg hole A to be the leftmost peg position on horizontal pan cels, and the topmost
peg position for vertical pan cels.
4. Place the pan cel face down on the scanner glass with the round A peg hole placed on the round registration
peg on the scanner or position it in the optical registration search area as defined earlier. Close the scanner
cover.
5. Select the peg hole you are scanning first from the Peg Hole panel.
 This procedure assumes you are scanning peg hole A first, then continuing scanning the rest of the peg
holes in sequence.
 You can actually scan the peg holes in any order, as long as you make sure to select the lettered button in
the Peg Hole panel that corresponds to the peg position you are scanning.
6. Click on the Scan (A) button.
 You can click on the Stop button to interrupt scanning at any time. For more information on interrupting the
scanning process, refer to the topic Stopping the Scanning Process.
The scanner scans the first section of the pan cel and displays a preview of the scanned image above the A
button in the Peg Hole panel.
7. On the scanner, move the pan cel so that the peg hole B is on the round registration peg on the scanner or
position it in the optical registration search area as defined earlier and close the scanner cover.
8. Select the B radio button from the Peg Hole panel and click the Scan (B) button.
The scanner inputs the second section of the pan cel and displays a preview of the scanned image above the B
button in the Peg Hole panel.
9. Repeat these steps until you scanned all the panels of your pan cel.
10. Click on the Save button once you have scanned all the drawings for the pan cel to form a single drawing.
Stopping the Scanning Process
You can use the Stop button to interrupt scanning at any time. The scanner may not stop immediately since the Scan
module must finish its current process.
The Stop Scanning dialog box will appear, giving you two choices of action:
 Stop Immediately button: This option will stop the scanner from finishing the current drawing scan. The
Scan module will mark the drawing as Not Scanned.
 Finish This Drawing button: This option will continue scanning and will save the current drawing and then
stop the scan process.
Advanced Scanning Techniques
In most cases, you only need to scan your drawings into empty cells in your exposure sheet. Harmony is flexible
enough to allow you to add drawings in other ways. These other methods include:
• Scanning paper drawings without matching cells in the exposure sheet
• Loading previously scanned images into matching cells in the exposure sheet
Scanning Drawings without Matching Frames
If you want to preview one or more drawings that don’t have a corresponding list of cells in the Control Center’s
database yet, you don’t have to go through the whole procedure of creating an environment, defining the jobs,
scenes, and elements, and then creating an exposure sheet. These would be a list of cells that were not entered in the
exposure sheet and do not appear in the Database Element Selector dialog box.
To be able to scan these new drawings, you must specify the path and file names for the drawings to be saved.