@michael.riley
Sure, Mike. I’ll humor you. Even though you are not permited to advise us we are all non-paid, non-reimbursed Beta testers.
The “export” appears to have completed at some point during the end of the 2nd hour.
That is to say, at least the Suzy Homemaker progress bar was no longer open.
[Update: Two hours later I would find the Autodesk Recap Error Report window buried under seven Firefox windows (7 tabs each) I had open by then in my effort to find a decent instruction page online. Unfortunately, most of the help that might be helpful is in bandwidth-sucking video form. Another troubling trend in the whiz bang boom, paperless - add to that, “writer-less” - software industry.
No files were saved to the default Temp File Location folder.
Readers will note this does not infer that Recap offers users any actual ability to change the default folder by using Recap’s Options.
Since Recap provides no feedback on file sizes - neither the original extents’ file-size nor the edited (cropped) extents’ file size, this would be a little difficult to provide to you. You have used Recap before I presume. So why are you asking that?
I can tell you that the original LAS file, before cropping off 12 sq miles of 16 sq mile area, was
1.32Gb.
To be clear, the operation did not succeed.
And no, haha, I did not make the mistake and follow the juvenile prevailing advice of leaving the operation unattended (to go play a round of golf or go surfing or taking care of any of a hundred other things I would do if this software could be relied upon. No. I baby sat the thing the entire time. And there was no feedback visible. Recap simply crashed and sent the Crash Report window quietly to the bottom of the Window stack.
The machine was never allowed to go into standby or sleep mode. So let me ad that one to my list of the 50 fluffin things users are supposed to remember to reap all of the cutting edge technology of Autodesk Recap.
This of course is all very convenient to Autodesk. It follows the pattern of how Adesk’s and Adobe’s biz model agendas, of adding insult to injury where the value of users’ time is concerned. Not to mention how insluting this thread is, in and of itself. How old is this thread now?
People WILL note how long this thread has gone on with the same old shuck and jive of people in your “role” pretending to provide personal support to (stroking and diverting) everyone who runs into this nonsense.
Adesk primary documentation is so poorly written and so poorly organized. It substitutes a maze of - again overly simple, dumbed down lazy - pages, each with links to sub-topic pages that are just as shabby and simple, and dumbed down and slick. Many of those pages include links back to the original page. None of the support pages linking to each other, not a one, was written by competent writers trained in the skill of eliminating all possible misinterpretations and mistakes.
For example. My version of Recap is 1.5.0.33. But…
Go to the Adesk Help Page for the myriad update versions and you will not find any option for version 1.5.0.33. On that page there are also no clear instructions on whether the various Hot Fixes or Update options, if one dares to experiment, will or won’t require that the 2016 Media Kit version (1.5.0.33) of Recap, should first be uninstalled.
As far as I can see, the Recap UI provides no means for determining what the sizes of the files are, before or after a polygonal selection (cropping - my term) has been completed.
The original size of the LAS file was 1.32Gb (1,318,935Kb).
From the overly simple, dumbed down, icon-based (rolls eyes) Recap UI, I have not idea whether to suggest the file to be processed (post narrowing the target area) would have been equal to the 25% of that LAS file’s original 1.32Gb’s.
I think I deleted the 12 sq miles I did not need. Or whether that was rudely dumped into some obscure default Adesk cache or temp file someplace as others have alluded to.
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Note: The nature of my company’s product/service requires the ability to study the terrain available to a customer. That is up close (with LiDAR accuracy) for purposes of determining best installation sites, sites which will typicaly come in at around 100 acres.
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Michael. The questions you asked are fairly pedantic since you should first have asked me which version I was running.
I am not sure that the file size matters. After an additional 90 minute goose chase I stumbeld onto the news that Adesk shipped me a Media Kit with a version of Recap that is known to fail.
Perhaps you would be kind enough to post a sticky about the 2016 Media Kit’s version of Recap. Namely, the ever so elusive, version 1.5.0.33, nobody bothered to update and reburn to the factory USB stick.
Perhaps you could recommend whether I need to uninstall before running the latest version 2.0.5.whateverthehellitis this week.
Hugs and kisses,
James
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