What filters to use in FARO Scene? (see images)

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Re: What filters to use in FARO Scene? (see images)

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I downloaded and tested the edge filter yesterday on scans of a facade. I am developing the profiles of water tables, cornices, trim, etc. Prior to using the edge filter it required a lot of filtering and manual cleaning in Geomagic prior to meshing. After using the edge filter no filtering or manual clean up is needed. It worked very well and I will be using it on most projects from now on.

Against all of my male instincts I watched the video before starting to use it and saw the tip of how to process multiple scans at the same time.

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Re: What filters to use in FARO Scene? (see images)

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At the risk of going off topic... Yan, do you have any plans to offer standalone versions of your filters that can run outside of Scene? The edge filter looks nice, but for various reasons, I don't think Scene is a very good platform for point cloud editing. I'd love to have a command line version that I could run against .fls or .e57 files.

Since the filter doesn't have much in the way of user controls it seems like an excellent candidate for batch processing. Even if the core of the standalone version was still single threaded it would be trivial to wrap it in a Python script to execute multiple instances in parallel on a folder of input scan files.
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Re: What filters to use in FARO Scene? (see images)

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Hello Jed,

For now, we don't plan to edit a standalone version. It would also imply some more developing, as our current filter is based on the grid format of the fls files.

Or goal was to include the filters and the other plugins in Scene so that the user can go as far as possible with Scene before working with other softwares.

Our workflow is to import the fls files directly in softwares like Pointools, Pointcab, and Edgewise.
We try to avoid generating too many intermediate files formats between Scene and the final software.

Our uniform filter was more developed for the webshare. When filtering the scans, even with 5mm spacing between the points, we get much lighter Scanpointclouds and we save a lot of disk space when doing the webshare export.

Just one additional information: we generally filter our data in an exported project, and we keep the original scans just in case...
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Re: What filters to use in FARO Scene? (see images)

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yankoch wrote:For now, we don't plan to edit a standalone version. It would also imply some more developing, as our current filter is based on the grid format of the fls files.
From a development perspective couldn't you use the standalone version of Faro's SDK to reuse most of your existing code but operate directly on fls files without using Scene as a host? If you do reconsider a standalone version in the future, the specific workflow I'd be interested in is:
  1. Export fls files from Scene.
  2. Run edge filter on fls files.
  3. Import fls files in to other software.
Of course, if the edge filter also supported e57 or ptx the above would also work for non-Faro users.
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Re: What filters to use in FARO Scene? (see images)

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Jed,

I think that the Faro sdk only allows the reading of the fls files, not the saving. This means that this standalone software would have to convert the filtered files into another format.
But this would be a good idea. We might give a try this year.
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yankoch wrote:I think that the Faro sdk only allows the reading of the fls files, not the saving.
Ahh, you're right. I always forget how limited the functionality of Faro's API is.
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Re: What filters to use in FARO Scene? (see images)

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Hello Yan,

The filter worked great during the trial and I purchased it. It was stated that it could be used on multiple copies of Scene on the same computer. When I plug in the TAN code it states that it has already been used. How do I get the filter to operate on a separate version of Scene on the same computer?

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Re: What filters to use in FARO Scene? (see images)

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Hi,

The plugin, once activated on a Scene version of your computer, ca be installed again on another version without the need of activating it again.

You can also do a copy-paste of the folder "filter" from your App folder of Scene to another App folder (Scene LT for example). Then, open Scene LT, go into option-app, and tick "activate" on the filter plugin.

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Jan,

Thank you for looking into this so quickly. Your customer service is very encouraging.
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Re: What filters to use in FARO Scene? (see images)

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Yan,
Is this app still available?
I looked in the Faro App store but it was not there.
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