How to automate getting proper scale and ground plane

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Hi all,

I’m setting up a rig to get decent quality scans of furniture. All is good except the orientation (ground plane) and real world scale needs manual user input. How can I automate these steps, both while shooting and processing the images.

 

Thanks,

Misho

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Hello misha,

you can find the tutorial on how to re-use the calculated camera positions among several scans in the application Help - Re-use Alignment.

In the section Full-body Scans and coordinate System Preservation you can find the step-by-step video tutorials (also on our YouTube channel) on how to preserve coordinate system of your scans for a completely stable camera setup or bending camera setup as well.

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Hi Zuzana,

I can’t re-use calculated cameras, as this will be a hand held rig. Can I use the 12-bit Markers for this?

thanks,

Misho

 

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Yes, in such case you can place coded markers and use them for scaling. Please note that you cannot use automatic detection of coded markers in the Promo version. 

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Just make sure that your markers are on the same horizontal plane (use a bubble level to be sure of that )

Then you can define ground control points with precise coordinates, so the ground will always be consistent.

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@zuzana

Can I use the PGM version or I need the CLI version for that?

 

 

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@mischa: you do not need a CLI license for that