I’ve been extremely impressed processing a job from our drone to create beautiful ortho imagery which once exported can be used across our suite of software perfectly in the coordinate system defined in the application settings.
The problem I’m having is when I export a X,Y,Z point cloud the output does not seem to be using my projects defined system.
I have tried using “Grid Plane”, “Project Output”, “Shifted-project output” with no luck, the coordinates seems to single digit instead of the expected format. The image export managed to use the correct system and the job itself shows the correct co-ordinates while hovering the mouse over in 2D.
I’m sure it’s just a setting or maybe an order I’ve done things in if anyone can offer any insight that would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks for the fast reply sorry I left for the weekend with no access to the job.
I’ve been using the XYZ Point Cloud Format under “Dense Mesh Model and Textures” as most software I use can read it easily.
This is what the X,Y,Z output looks like but I’m expecting coordinates in the say X: 38,000 Y: 328,000
(Fixed by choosing decimal trimmed)
These are my coordinate settings in my job and these have exported my ortho-image in the correct position and it works great I’m just not sure why this XYZ isn’t also using it?
EDIT: So the scientific notation is the issue for importing into our other software but we fixed that by choosing (decimal trimmed) so XYZ is now fine but some people are requesting Autocad’s RCP format from us, which in the past we have used a LAS file then transformed in Revit to RCP.
I have tried exporting to LAS in all the co-ordinate system options given, grid plane, project output, shifted project output and same as XMP. All except project output can be converted and used but none of them use the correct co-ordinates, it makes sense that project output is the correct one to choose but the output fails to be read by any other program we have (revit & Recap).
Thank you for reading my post and in advance for any insights!
this is normal writing of the coordinates, as it is 3.8682e+04, what is 38 682. I didn’t see, that there is a soft, which had problem to read this format…
If you want to have point cloud in your coordinate system, then you need to export it just in Project output option. The other options are just local coordinate systems, which can have another origins, so the coordinates could be smaller and written in no scientific way.
Can you try to open created point cloud in CloudCompare and resave it? And then open in ReCap? What is it saying during ReCap import? Is there some error?
Yep the co-ordinates were fine, the software we had must have been too old to read the projection in LAS format, we’ve updated to the latest version and had great success, no problem on CR’s end I just had to figure it all out.
Everything now makes sense and I really appreciate you taking the time to answer. Our output is beautiful and has done everything as expected!
I’ll post this in maybe feature request or maybe it exists and I’m just unsure, I can now make a surface in another program and compare it to old survey jobs to calculate volumes and show differences in elevation over time which is fantastic, we calculate these volumes within a simple polyline boundary which I wanted to import into RC and use to calculate volumes but was only given the option of JSON format as an import which meant we couldn’t use our commonly used DXF format. If RC allowed us a few more import options for shapes I probably wouldn’t even need to leave the software from start to finish.
Is it possible for RC to compare two scans of the same area within a defined boundary to generate a cut fill? Thanks in advance everyone at my office is impressed with the outputs and we have cancelled our old software subscription to use RC full time for our photogrammetry needs!
Sorry for the original confusing question when it was just all user error on my part.