Open multiple windows of recap on one computer

[TTraen]

Hello,

It would be very usefull for me if I could open more than one window of autodesk recap on my computer, but is this possible? I didn't succeed up till now.

Kindly regards,

Tom

[Anonymous]

i agree

[michael.riley]

Unfortunately, this is not currently supported.  Do you have specific workflows in mind that would be better supported by running multiple instances of ReCap?

[TTraen]

The problem I know encouter after research is that recap does a lot of work on single core on recap. I taugth it was multicore, but only a fraction of time the processor works on full capacity. I would accelerate my work flow if I could use more than one window and use more of my processor capacity.

[Anonymous]

We regularly scan the same area at different times, and want to retain the same survey control to both.

Since i believe you cannot register new scans to an established rcp without re-registering the first, accessing the survey control for the first project, to add to the second, would be alot easier if you could have both windows open at once.

unless there is a way to align two projects of the same area that i do not know about

[michael.riley]

Tom:

The PC usage issue is definitely a tricky one.  At any given time we're using a lot of CPU, a lot of RAM, and/or writing a lot to disk.  Processing multiple scans are once can lead to issues if we use too much RAM or try write a lot to different areas on disk at the same time.  Since we don't know how much of a system's resources a raw scan will require to process ahead of time, it is hard to keep each of these running at full tilt reliably.  We hope to improve on this in the future.

Jason:

I have good news for you.  It is possible to register new scans on a completed project.  This can be done in two ways:

1. Import new scans into an existing project (on the registration pane).  Use manual registration to register each new scan to the existing project.  This is the best approach if the new scans are not all contiguous.
2. Create and register a second project consisting of the new scans (if the new scans all overlap).  Then create a third project and drag the RCPs of the first two into it.  In manual registration mode, each project will be listed as a group.  Finally, find a pair of scans with overlap between the two projects and register them.  Once registration is done, the actual scan data will still be with the old projects.  To make a copy of all of the data, perform a "Save As".

Note that in both cases, you have to use our manual registration mode, as auto-registration will currently restart the registration process from the beginning.  With the registration suggestions in our manual mode that were introduced in 2.0, however, manual registration is much faster than it was previously.

Let me know if either of you have further questions.

Thanks,

Michael

[Anonymous]

so if we have scan A already registered and in the right orientation after survey is established, scan B is a new project and is registered, but no survey is applied.  I start Scan Project C and bring A.rcp in and then B.rcp, will everything end up in the same place as A was after i applied survey to it, or will it move?

[michael.riley]

As long as the survey points were added in ReCap, they will persist.  Alternately, if scan A was aligned to survey before being imported into ReCap, you can create a few manual survey points in scan A before registering it to other scans to ensure that other scans are adjusted relative to A.

[culley.parris]

Seriously,  I have a large team of people working a multimillion dollar project with thousands of square feet of scanned areas.  We do these areas in zones in order to limit size of individual scan sets.  But I would like to see multiple scans sets sometimes (often because they adjoin one another or represent the interior and exterior of a wall).  If they were all in one area, we would also run into permissions problems with other users... not to mention, Recap doesn't want to deal with a file that has 100 scans in it. 

Just turn on the ability to view a couple scan sets at once in different sessions or different windows of the same session.