Version: 1.5.0

3D Modeling guide

Purpose of this guide is to describe the steps of acquiring, processing, and presenting meshes and pointclouds through pipeline:

Scanning with Leica -> Processing (cleaning, fixing colors, decimation) -> Meshing -> Texturing -> Export/Presenting on web

Pipeline

Leica Cyclone Register 360
- Import scans
- Process (register, align, clean, limit)
- Export data registered in shared coordinate system
  - Each full-point scan to separate .e57 (unstructured)
  - All sparse-point scans with their scanning origins and color images to single .e57 (structured)
CloudCompare or custom scripts
- Import separate .e57 files
- Clean points, fix colors
- Merge all .e57 files and decimate the result to desired resolution
Meshlab and/or Blender
- Use to create mesh and texture
Model export