I have a few suggestions for editing terrestrial laser scans in Metashape :
1) When aligning scans it should be possible to set one as a reference so that newly aligned scans can be appended to a referenced scan.
2) When importing grayscale scans, the intensity value should be automatically transferred to the RGB value so that an exported point cloud also becomes a grayscale point cloud. At the moment the point cloud is always output as black.
3) When aligning laser scans, in my opinion, accuracy has to be demonstrated somehow, at the moment aligning laser scans is more of a lottery than a survey.
4) When exporting scans aligned in Metashape into the E57 format, the point cloud MUST be output in a structured manner so that other programs such as Acad-Recap or Faro Scene can continue to work with the point cloud. At the moment, an unstructured point cloud is output, which will then no longer be the case can be further processed as a laser scan.
Dear Metashape Team: Please address the points and let me know whether any of these points will be included in a new Metashape version. For us as a surveying office, some of these points are crucial for processing laser scans in conjunction with photos in Metashape.
Thank you
Dieter