Questions from a newbie

[rangarajan]

Hi,
I have just started evaluating PhotoScan and I am very impressed with what it has to offer. There a few questions:
1) The workflow consists of several discrete steps such as (1) Align Photos (2) Build Dense Cloud (3) Build Mesh, and so on. If I have a large number of images to process, each of these steps can take a long time to complete. Is it possible to execute just the first 2 steps, for example, quit the program and continue with the other steps later? Or if I stop in between, should I start from the very beginning each time?
2) There is an option to distribute computation over a network. For this, should I purchase additional licenses?
3) There is an option to "Export Model” as PDF file. I found that this allows me to interact with this 3D model inside Acrobat. Quite nice! How is this different from what I can do with the Viewer software? Does the viewer give additional features?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Rangarajan

[stihl]

Hi Rangajaran,

To answer your questions:
1) each step you've mentioned is what it is, a step. Meaning you can save your project in between.
By using the batch processing you can set up several tasks and have it save in between automatically.

2) Yes, this requires additional photoscan clients on other computers.

3) As far as I know the Agisoft viewer accepts only Photoscan specific tile files that consists of the dense point cloud.

[rangarajan]

Hi Stihl,
Thanks for clarifying. Regarding (2), you say that PhotoScan needs additional clients on other computers. My question is should I pay for these additional client installation, apart from my purchase of the primary PhotoScan Pro license.

Regards,
Rangarajan

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello Rangarajan,

Each computer used for the processing in the network mode as a processing node requires PhotoScan Pro to be installed and activated with the separate license key. For more details regarding licensing you can contact our sales department: sales@agisoft.com.