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Title: Bringing a dense cloud back into photoscan
Post by: jinjamu on December 02, 2017, 10:12:57 AM

Hi,
The workflow I am using involves doing the alignment with Photoscan, then exporting as a bundler.out format, and using other software to generate the dense cloud and to clean up that dense cloud.  This provides me with a really nice clean dense cloud.
My question is, is there a way to bring that clean dense cloud back into Photoscan in order to mesh and texture in Photoscan?
Many thanks!

Title: Re: Bringing a dense cloud back into photoscan
Post by: Alexey Pasumansky on December 02, 2017, 11:54:25 AM

Hello jinjamu,

Dense point cloud import is supported in the version 1.4.0 pre-release. Currently supported formats LAS, LAZ, PTS, PLY, OBJ.

Title: Re: Bringing a dense cloud back into photoscan
Post by: jinjamu on December 02, 2017, 06:42:08 PM

Thanks Alexey
I need the process to work as though the imported dense cloud is generated from the point cloud in photoscan, so there needs to be a "connection" (sorry, don't know the right words!) with the original photographs, to be able to texture the generated mesh.
Before I start to test, is there anything in particular to look out for?