Laser + Drone components just don't merge

Yes, in that case they should be imported as georeferenced in local coordinate system (as I wrote you before).

Regarding the alignment, if there is a proper overlap, the data will be aligned without control points. If not, the control points have to be used to merge the components.

I suppose this is related to not using georeferenced settings during data import.

Not directly, but there is a workaround:

  • go to SCENE 3D/TOOLS/Mesh Model/Info Panel
  • there you can set the wanted rotation directly
  • this will change the reconstruction region to the set angle
  • go to SCENE3D/TOOLS/Scene Alignment/Set Ground Plane and use the option Set Ground Plane by Reconstruction Region
  • this will rotate the model accordingly