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

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