Hi ross.havery
Can you send me one E57 file ? so that I can inspect its resolution and so on, send it to milos.lukac@capturingreality.com
In principle, after you import the E57, it’s converted to LSP ( Laser Scan Picture ) and when you align, you get only FEATURES to see in the 3D view. so we don’t load all points in the file - just detected features used for ALIGNMENT. You can try to use NORMAL mode reconstruction and see the resolution of the mesh, default settings are 5 mm resolution, you can change it in RECONSTRUCTION ribbon -> SETTINGS -> LASER SCANNER -> MINIMAL SAMPLING DISTANCE…
… Or open the LSP in the 2D view and you can see the real resolution of the scan ( as pixels )