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chris

• February 09, 2016 23:52

I've been looking into hiring a laser scanner, and its seems ptx isn't as widely supported as i'd hoped.

so something more open for non leica scanners would be useful.

in the mean time dose anyone know whats good software to do conversions. while not spending $5k on it?

thanks

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  Wishgranter

  • February 10, 2016 08:31

  Hi chris
  
  the E57 is almost ready to deploy, that mean if everything go well with testing it will be in next update.
  
  What scanner yo you have that it not support PTX export ?

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  stevenramsey123

  • February 10, 2016 11:22

  I think it is only Riegl that don't support PTX directly, unless you are not talking about a static TLS

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  chris

  • February 10, 2016 22:49

  thanks that sounds good.
  
  I'm only looking at hiring one.
  
  but I-Site 8820 is an option, maybe z+f is an option.

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  Wishgranter

  • February 10, 2016 23:26

  hi chris
  
  the I-Site 8820 is a LONG range scanner = not good for "close range"
  look on its brochure and see its have not very good resolution !!!!!
  
  the Z+F is a much much better option... its close range scanner = max +- 100m and get very good quality scan and resolution

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  chris

  • February 11, 2016 04:43

  yes i am aware of that.
  
  will test it out before using any seriously. but i wonder if the lower res is really a problem when added into rc with lots of photos. for some of the things i'm thinking for more than 100m would be useful, but not necessary. but i get why your saying the z+f is probably the better option.
  
  one thing the i-site can do. which i think must be a very new feature added. is that it can produce a textured 3d model without any post processing. I haven't seen any samples of this yet, but it sounds interesting. I cant imagine it would produce something like what rc can though.

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  Wishgranter

  • February 11, 2016 12:47

  Hi Chris
  
  highly recomend to read the I-Site 8820
  and again im say its a LONG range scanner with very powerful laser "ray beam" that mean on short (0-100m ) ranges it have a plenty of issues related to the ray beam strength.
  
  The Z+F is much much better solution as its CLOSE range scanner.
  
  can try it yourself and get to same conclusion......

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  chris

  • February 11, 2016 23:53

  thanks for your input, i appreciate your thoughts on it.

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  Lucia CR

  • April 11, 2016 11:45

  The e57 support for point-cloud import has just been released -> Version 1.0.2.1976 RC release

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