Decap processing fails

[andrew_dunn1]

I have been reading a number of posts regarding Decap and have been trying to get the batch processor to work with no luck so far... I have a Faro S70 scanner and have been routinely processing scans in Recap with no problems, so I know that the files should be OK.

I have tried to keep things as simple as possible and process a single file:

D:\Decap\Test>decap.exe --importWithLicense d:\Decap\Test Project LP-010.fls

Welcome to DeCap.exe.
You have provided the following parameters:
             --importWithLicense
             d:\Decap\Test
             Project
             LP-010.fls
Initializing Licensing. Please wait...
Importing 1 scans to d:\Decap\Test\Project
[F][lp-010.fls][1]
[P][1 1]

D:\Decap\Test>

Decap has finished at this point and there are two folders created - "Project Support" and "temp" as well as an AutodeskReCap.log file.

AdskFaroConverter.exe continues to run in the background for around 40 seconds, and creates these folders - RawScans, Revisions, WorkspaceData, as well as two files - ScanProject.fpr and temp.lsproj.

Once all this is finished these folders are empty:

Project Support

RawScans

Revisions

WorkspaceData

The temp folder contains two folders with GUIDs for names, one of which is empty, the other contains temp files:

lp-010_inter3_0.temp014

lp-010_inter7_00.temp05

lp-010_inter7_01.temp05

lp-010_inter7_02.temp05

lp-010_inter7_03.temp05

lp-010_inter7_04.temp05

lp-010_inter7_05.temp05

temp.fws

It also contains a WorkspaceData\temp folder. This has 4 folders - _3Scans, Misc, Scans and ScansMeta, as well as a Revision.dat file. All these folders are empty except for Scans which contains a file "lp-010.fls" (this is only 24k in size).

I have tried this with different scan files and with multiple files in a control file as well, all with a similar result. I was hoping to use the batch process to speed up our processing, but I cant even get Decap to process a single file!

There are no error messages that I can see, it just does not work...

I can process these scan files in Recap with no problems, and I have send these files to a colleague who can process a single file with no problem, or two files in a control file, but if he tries to so three files it fails as well.

I am using Recap  6.1.0.71

I have put the scan file I am using on dropbox with this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/km6gzs5vtg7bi2u/LP-010.fls.zip?dl=0

Any help would be appreciated!

Cheers,

Andrew Dunn

[yan.fu]

It seems that AdskFaroConverter.exe fails to parse some information from the raw scan.

ReCap 6.1.0 doesn't install the latest Faro SDK package. 

Could you try to upgrade Faro SDK to the latest version to see if it solves the problem or not?

https://knowledge.faro.com/Software/FARO_SCENE/SCENE/SDK_File_Download_and_Installation_for_SCENE

Thanks,

Yan 

[andrew_dunn1]

I have downloaded and installed the Faro SDK from your link. Registered the dlls and confirmed that this was successful.

Re-ran the same test with the same result. the update didn't appear to make any difference..

D:\Decap\Test>decap.exe --importWithLicense D:\Decap\Test Project LP-010.fls
Welcome to DeCap.exe.
You have provided the following parameters:
                --importWithLicense
                D:\Decap\Test
               Project
               LP-010.fls
Initializing Licensing. Please wait...
Importing 1 scans to D:\Decap\Test\Project
[F][lp-010.fls][1]
[P][1 1]

D:\Decap\Test>

I have also installed the latest version of Faro Scene (2019.2). That also made no difference...

Is there any way to find out what is actually failing? The AutodeskReCap.log file is also empty so that doesn't provide any clues...

[SONA-ARCHITECTURE]

Hi, I've got the same problem

Decap generate empty folders

Also with E57 files

I've got E57Codec.rcip

[SONA-ARCHITECTURE]

Hi

I use this commande line :

"D:\PROGRAM FILES\Autodesk\Autodesk ReCap\decap.exe" --importWithLicense "D:\TEMPORAIRE\TMP\OUTPUT" Lu --controlFile "D:\TEMPORAIRE\TMP\INPUT\List.txt" --minRangeClipping 0 --maxRangeClipping 300 --decimation 20 --unify

My List.txt contains those lines :

D:\TEMPORAIRE\TMP\INPUT\lu_Scan_000.e57
D:\TEMPORAIRE\TMP\INPUT\lu_Scan_001.e57
D:\TEMPORAIRE\TMP\INPUT\lu_Scan_002.e57

My directory called D:\TEMPORAIRE\TMP\INPUT\ contains all e57 files

In D:\PROGRAM FILES\Autodesk\Autodesk ReCap\, I've got a plugin directory containings .rcip codecs files like those :

The result is .... nothing happens!!! What's wrong????

Thx for answering me.

Welcome to DeCap.exe.
You have provided the following parameters:
        --importWithLicense
        D:\TEMPORAIRE\TMP\OUTPUT
        Lu
        --controlFile
        D:\TEMPORAIRE\TMP\INPUT\List.txt
        --minRangeClipping
        0
        --maxRangeClipping
        300
        --decimation
        20
        --unify
Initializing Licensing.  Please wait...
Reading control file "D:\TEMPORAIRE\TMP\INPUT\List.txt"
Setting the min clipping range to 0
Setting the max clipping range to 300
Setting decimation to 20 mm
Enabling unified output

[andrew_dunn1]

I still cannot get this to work, I have tried many times with the same result... no output.

I don't believe that Autodesk is even looking at the issue either so not holding out any hope of a fix. We just have to keep doing the manual process and spending countless hours processing scans through the user interface.

Seems to me that the RECAP produce has stagnated and there is no further development happening. That is frustrating because there is so much to be done! 

I have just checked and rerun my batch files and get this result:

C:\__Batch\[Decap]>decap.exe --importWithLicense "D:\Decap\TestProjectScans" Project1 --controlFile "C:\__Batch\[Decap]\TestProjectScans\Files-1.txt"
Welcome to DeCap.exe.
You have provided the following parameters:
--importWithLicense
D:\Decap\TestProjectScans
Project1
--controlFile
C:\__Batch\[Decap]\TestProjectScans\Files-1.txt
Initializing Licensing. Please wait...
Reading control file "C:\__Batch\[Decap]\TestProjectScans\Files-1.txt"
Importing 5 scans to D:\Decap\TestProjectScans\Project1
[F][c:\__batch\[decap]\testprojectscans\lp-001.fls][1]
[F][c:\__batch\[decap]\testprojectscans\lp-002.fls][2]
[F][c:\__batch\[decap]\testprojectscans\lp-003.fls][3]
[F][c:\__batch\[decap]\testprojectscans\lp-004.fls][4]
[F][c:\__batch\[decap]\testprojectscans\lp-005.fls][5]
[P][1 1]

Processing stops at the [P][11] point.

All it does is create the "Project1 Support" folder that is empty, and the "temp" folder with two other folder within it..

"{1c949406_9bc6_46dd_8350_fe6160f882ba}" which is empty, and

"{b0191634_7711_4a19_8df7_7533e4541287}" which contains some temp files and a workspace folder.

No actual processing appears to happen...

I have updated our Faro Scene software to the latest version before testing as well...

Very frustrating to have the potential for batch processing when it simply does not work at all, and gives no useful feedback as to why!

[yan.fu]

Hi @SONA-ARCHITECTURE ,

Have you tried to import one single .fls file to see if it works? Also, could these file be imported through ReCap.exe?

If they can be imported by ReCap.exe but fail with DeCap.exe, could you please share one or some raw scan files to us for further investigation?

Thank you,

Yan

[SONA-ARCHITECTURE]

Hi, take a look here...

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/recap-forum/using-decap-to-batch-unitfy-e57-to-rcp/m-p/9366635/highli...

[andrew_dunn1]

Hi @yan.fu 

I tried processing a single file in the original example with the same effect. I also made the scan files available for you to check out.. that was back in November last year.

Having said that, it seems that @SONA-ARCHITECTURE has a solution! BUT the solution is ridiculous... 

Please see post https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/recap-forum/using-decap-to-batch-unitfy-e57-to-rcp/m-p/9366635/highli...

It apparently works if you are using Recap 360 2016! That means that I have to uninstall the current version (I tried to install the old version and it wont install with the new version in place).

Surely this means that something has changed or been deleted from the later versions that worked in the older version? This must be fixable via an update... there has not been one of those for recap for quite some time...

Note I have not been able to verify if the above post actually works because i have not yet had the time to uninstall recap and install the older version... to busy trying to get production work done! I will try it when I can.

[SONA-ARCHITECTURE]

Hi Andrew

I confirm that first, I've uninstalled Recap Pro 2020 and after, Reinstall Recap Pro 360.

Yes, Autodesk must have changed something in the Decap.exe program. No answers about it.

Maybe it works with the last version of Recap but no way to get information about Decap.exe problem.

[SONA-ARCHITECTURE]

Hi Yan

Thx for answering me.

Are you always interested about having my files?

[yan.fu]

Hi @SONA-ARCHITECTURE ,

If you don't mind, please share one or two files for us to test this issue. Thank you!

Thanks,

Yan

[SONA-ARCHITECTURE]

 Hi yan

I made it by private message. Thanx

[yan.fu]

Hi @SONA-ARCHITECTURE ,

Thank you for your dataset. I am able to reproduce this issue. There seems to be some licensing issue. 

This issue will be fixed in the next release.

Thanks,

Yan

[SONA-ARCHITECTURE]

Hi Jan!

Cool! Thanx a lot.

If I understand correctly, I will have to wait for a patch from Autodesk.

When do you think, the developer team could realize it?

Thx

[Anonymous]

Hi. 

I'm also very interested in getting it to work in the newest version of Recap. 

In our workflow, we need to use some of the tools in the newest version, so we are not able to use an older version. 

Any news? 

[yan.fu]

The issue should have been fixed in ReCap 7.0.

Please give it a try. 

If it still doesn't work , please let us know.

Thanks,

Yan

[andrew_dunn1]

Hi Yan,

Thanks for this update. I have now installed Recap version 7 and Decap finally works!

But, it still puts all the scans in a single registration group. After opening Recap I have to remove each scan from the group before I can register - this can take significant time.

Are there any plans to change this so that the scans are all individual in the processed RCS file so I can use either manual or Automatic registration?

cheers,

Andrew

[yan.fu]

Thank you for your feedback!

We will put this in our backlog. 

Best,

Yan

[kameron.jones]

@yan.fu I am relatively new to ReCap and DeCap and all that, I am not sure how to see which version I am running, but the program is Recap Pro 2020 and updated to the most recent thing as I can tell through the desktop app, should DeCap work for this? I am having "almost" success where it will pretend to work then nothing happens except a new command line in the Command line program

Sorry to highjack this post, but it seems most in line to get what I need.