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General / Licencing -- identify the node locked licence on a machine

« on: October 08, 2025, 04:56:38 PM »

Hi, I have several licences and several machines. I keep losing track of which licence is on which machine. Is there a way to check?

There used to be a .LIC file in C:\Program Files\Agisoft\Metashape Pro (on windows at least) but with newer versions it doesn't seem to be there.

Is this in the registry now?

Help>about doesn't have anything useful either.

(note, I have the licence keys stored separately, I just need to confirm which of my licence ekys are in use)

Thanks,
JRP

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General / Re: Double Sony ILX-LR1

« on: June 19, 2025, 01:24:50 PM »

I'm tying a sony lr1 with 85mm lens in a manned aircraft too, but my 1st test didn't work fine, the agisoft alignment solution was terrible.
...

That's a worrying result, would be interested to know more.

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General / Re: Setting View to specific numerical axis

« on: June 19, 2025, 12:52:22 PM »

Hi,
This doesn’t really answer the question, but may be a suitable workaround.
You could add markers into the scene numerically, then use the markers based reprojection plane. This will give you precise numerical control over the view, but it’s a few extra steps.

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General / Re: Dark Bands Along Flight Lines in Orthomosaic

« on: June 02, 2025, 11:53:36 AM »

I'm certainly no expert on this type of work, but have you checked for and/or corrected for vigneting? (where the edges of the photos are darker than the center due to optics).

If you are usign a raw workflow, this should be simple enough to corect for in the raw processing software.

JRP

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General / Reference pane accuracy numbers for small objects

« on: May 30, 2025, 06:51:34 PM »

Hi, I’ve recently come back to Metashape having been busy with other work for a while, and I notice that the reference pane now displays numbers to only 3 decimal places, which is 1 mm.

Many of the objects I reconstruct are tiny, some as small as coins, with a plan to work with microscope images soon.

This means that the smallest significant digit in reference is now be as much as 5% of the size of my objects.

(For areal photo data where pixels are measured in factions of a meter, mm would be too fine)

I would very much like this to be customisable, or at least have a few digits added back. I’ve looked, and I can’t see any options about this.

I’ve seen forum posts of people being confused numbers that aren’t zero, and I sympathise that some users will find these numbers concerning but I personally really want to know the difference between 0.49mm and 0.001mm. My pixels are sometimes on the order of 0.01mm, and I believe Metashape does sub pixel locations for markers.

I’m currently working with objects on the order of 20cm long, and I’m being told that the error on all the scale bars is either “0.000” or “-0.000”, what is frustrating is that I know this isn’t correct.

Maybe using the accuracy field to determine how many digits to use could work? Display the right number of digits to be able to display 1/1000 of the accuracy number? Or simply turn off the rounding if any accuracy smaller than 2mm is seen, which would be a bit of a hack, but would work for most people.

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General / Re: Help with Scale Bar Selection Needed !

« on: May 30, 2025, 06:26:35 PM »

I know I’m a year late to the party, but in case anyone else finds this:
There is an “update transform” button at the top of the reference pane. This recalculates all of the scales etc based on which have tick marks next to them. This should do exactly what you want.

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General / Re: Correct way to maximise processing speed?

« on: August 05, 2024, 01:43:35 PM »

Is there a way to automate this? I'm using linux boxes as processing nodes, I currently run one copy of metashape in headless mode from commandline inside 'screen'. Should I be running sever per server machine?

There are a few diferent users that send jobs to this setup, I don't feel it would be good use of thier time to train them on how to manage the subtlties of this.

If diferent tasks need diferent numbers worker nodes, how do I control this?

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General / Re: Network processing Error: Can't remove folder: parent folder mismatch

« on: January 16, 2024, 05:34:42 PM »

Hi,

I have tried networking processing on linux nodes only which completes good.

I have also now tried processing on the windows node only, and this completes fine as well.

(I used the pause node option in network monitor)

Only when it’s a mix of linux and windows nodes does the problem show up. This is consistent with my idea that the Linux client is resolving the symlinks and passing the resolved versions to windows, which can’t find them.

Path is correct and absolute paths is off.

Thanks,
JRP

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General / Re: interpretation of check point errors

« on: January 11, 2024, 04:02:15 PM »

Hi,

I usually work on small objects, or occasional buildings, not landscpes, so I'm not an expert. If I got errors that small on a house, I'd feel happy about it.

For a site of ~500m x ~1000m with a ~25m elevation change, having 3 centemeters of error is around 0.003%, or 1 part in ~30000 -- I can't think of any method I have to measure anything that accurately.

Ask yourself how large an error would you accept the offset of any point to be (by that I mean the simple distance between where Metashape thinks any location is, versus the real world) -- measured in meters.

If any of the errors in the error column are above that, you may have an issue.

That's the method I use, and it seems to work for me, others who work with landscapes may have a more refined method.

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General / Re: Error increasing after inputting marker accuracy

« on: January 10, 2024, 02:58:47 PM »

Are you able to post some screenshots of the reference panel in diferent states? (ideally with a good and bad project)

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General / Re: Metashape Network Processing

« on: January 10, 2024, 02:56:24 PM »

I have a similar setup, but have never seen this exact situation.

I did once have a situation where in windows it would hang when I scrolled and selected text in the console window, but it started right after, so I didn't note the details.

Does the console window say anything interesting?

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General / Re: Error increasing after inputting marker accuracy

« on: January 09, 2024, 01:05:41 PM »

By the sounds of this, you are more experianced than I am with GCPs anyway, but incase it's useful:

I've seen loosly similar results when I've had a point with a substantial error in it, have you checked all the input data for anomalies? Best place to start looking would be to sort the GCPs by error, and turn them off one or two at a time starting with the worst ones then refresh, and see if everything pops into place.

I've seen it where the turned off point is then reported to have an error of nearly exactly a meter, and it turns out to be a simple typo. (university, student projects, we usually end up with the points written down with a pencil in a notebook as it's less of a learning curve)

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General / Re: IS IT POSSIBLE TO EXPORT MODEL WITH CAMERAS POSITIONS IN STANDARD 3D FORMATS?!

« on: January 08, 2024, 04:30:58 PM »

Try "reference" panel, then the "Export reference" button at the top.

This will output a CSV file of the numbers. Not sure if you have anything that can process this.

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General / Re: Network Processing AlignCameras.update - single core? best performance question

« on: January 08, 2024, 02:50:03 PM »

At least the other 3 nodes are still available for other jobs.

Thats more depth than I've gone into with network processing, so you are likely way ahead of me in every respect, but I do note the set capability option in network monitor, if you turned off CPU on the slower machines, this could do part of what you are after. ... but would liekly break other things.

Have you found much benfit from ram speed? What little exploring I've done with this has indicated that ram sppeds seem to have little affect on performance (I think I played with XMP profiles once, years ago, and saw no change whatso ever.) this is contrary to what logic says, so I was never convinced I was testing it right.

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General / Re: Multiple Projects with Batch Process

« on: January 08, 2024, 02:40:37 PM »

I know somone that gets around this by putting a bunch of objects in the same project as separate chunks so that it is easier to manage in the short term, but it always felt like a bit too much trouble for me. -- this was a few years back.

if using pro: You could also bodge the network processing system to do something similar with everything running localy, but that's even more trouble if you arn't already doing network processing. Bit of a learning curve.