Hello all, I’m using RC to create meshes from the BLK360. Often it is helpful to have very precise locators that you can pick from within the spherical image that might otherwise be tough to resolve out of the mesh. This is especially true of tape marks on the ground. It seems that RC is applying an arbitrary offset to the positions established by the point cloud software? The images will do a better job of explaining, thanks for you help !!
Casey
Hi Casey,
you used option No under Georeferenced during import. This will place the imported point cloud freely, so it won’t be in the same position as in Cyclone. You can use Yes there with local coordinate system. Then it also depends, what settings do you have in Export from RealityCapture.
Hi there Ondrej thanks for getting back !
Turning georeferenced on didn’t seem to work unfortunately, it lands in the same offset position as before. I’ve documented my basic workflow here, so let me know if I’m missing a step or should be setting a parameter different. As you say, it seems to be placing it ‘freely’ , almost as if centering on the bounding box. I purposely didn’t touch the reconstruction region or add photos so as to not alter anything from the raw laser scan import.
Hi Casey,
I can see, that the laser scans are not at the position as they should be (there are quite big residuals).
The import settings look good. If you want to preserve the coordinates, you need to have set Yes under Camera prior settings/Use camera priors for georeferencing:
Also check, what do you have set as Output coordinate system under Workflow tab/Application/Settings/Coordinate systems. The Output coordinate system should be also local as Project’s.
And you need to have set the Project output coordinate system system also there:
That worked, cheers !!
In a future version it might be good if this is the default when importing laser scans?
Thanks again ,
Casey
