Directly use LIDAR station positions to reconstruct mesh

[shiukaheng]

Hi, I have a huge E57 file exported from Cyclone I'm trying to use to reconstruct a textured mesh, but I'm running into issues. It imports without errors, but only the estimated positions of the stations show up (the guy who gave it to me said they were already registered), and they are marked as unaligned, and no point cloud is visible. However, the depth maps are there. Is this expected behaviour?

It would be great to know if its possible to directly use the registered station positions to reconstruct the mesh or a dense cloud, without having to align them using the photo data, since some of the photos have already have the original markers masked out. I tried aligning them as is but the results are all over the place and it would be a lot of repeated effort to find the markers and align the whole dataset again. Would appreciate any help! Thanks.

[shiukaheng]

Ok I've solved it. Apparently I need to run a script to do this: https://github.com/agisoft-llc/metashape-scripts/blob/master/src/quick_layout.py

[Dieter]

That means you have oriented photos and then load oriented scans with them?

And then you run the script over it.

Does this work fine for you?

Dieter