Recap Pro to offer manual alignment

[nicolasmenu]

We need a way to manually correct the automated alignment/registration that Recap does automatically
We need being able to move, 3d rotate and possibly scale a point cloud within a Recap Project, and save it

This will open up a whole lot of possibilities for projects coming out of Recap Photos. When the automatic registration of such projects are not correctly done by Recap Pro, we need an option to manually position them correctly.
Projects out of Recap Photo are very different than laserscans in the sense that they are usually smaller parts of objects not always well linked to the bigger whole,  hence, difficult for Recap Pro to successfuly register automatically. This is when MANUAL adjustment come in.

Most point cloud softwares (leica, etc..) offer ways to automatically but also manually position a point clouds. This is critical to success in many cases.

[Anonymous]

yeah it's true, I tried in 2 occasions to use the automatic alignment and it failed twice

[mika_jahkola]

I agree with nicolasmenu. Recap sometimes leaves a scan a couple of cm off after refinement, or registration fails completely because the scans have too little overlap. You immediately see with your eyes how the scan should be moved, but there is no way to tell Recap explicitly to "move this scan here". All I would need is a simple drag and rotate feature. Drag in the xy-plane and rotate around z-axis would be sufficient in most if not all cases.

[Anonymous]

Recap absolutely needs a way to manually adjust the point clouds.

I've had a few projects now that were scanned with some backpack wand scanner without targets and RECAP doesn't know what to do with them. The auto registration does nothing.

The resulting point clouds are all rotated and elevated at random intervals.

I just wanted to create one *.RCP file to bring into REVIT.

I end up manually aligning the point clouds in revit with MOVE and ROTATE.

I end up making a lot of section views and using stairs and pipes as my targets to push and pull the point clouds.

I should be able to use recap and its tools to align these point clouds better and be able to save out the ONE RCP master file.

Instead I have over 8 separate point clouds to deal with in each project.

[Anonymous]

does recap suck or is it me

[garyl]

I actually really rate Recap, having used Scene and Cyclone quite extensively, I really enjoy the ease, simplicity and interface of Recap. Plus it is affordable. But I fully agree it desperately needs tools for manual alignment