Easiest way to get images out of an E57 file?

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Easiest way to get images out of an E57 file?

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Hi. I have an E57 file that has 18 scans in it. I would like to use the images that are in the file for texturing. But I get an error in 3dreshaper when I try to load the file, and when I tried to export the images from scene I got the pointcloud in the images. What I want is to just have the images exported, or maybe seperate the file into 18 E57 files, so that maybe 3dreshaper can load them.
What I would like ideally, is to have the scanner positions made into spherical cameras in a 3d package, so I can use camera mapping for texturing. But that seems hard to do. Only way I know is to use Mari, and I have never used that program.
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From scene you can force to export to separate E57 files. It might be enough..
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by the way.. are you sure you have the images in the E57? Is importing the FLS files an option?
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I got the file as a Recap project, so I only have the images in Recap, and in exported E57 files. If there is a way to extract them in Recap, that would be neat.
I will try to delete all but one position in Recap, and see if that works.
I think that if I export the scan position as a dxf point, then I should be able to do it in 3ds max. Just apply the material with spherical mapping, and snapping the pivot of the gizmo to that point. Anyone tried that?
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Re: Easiest way to get images out of an E57 file?

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Hi,
Any chance you can send the e57 file to our support team so that our dev team can have a look?
This is typical workflow for 3dreshaper...
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Re: Easiest way to get images out of an E57 file?

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ziltoid wrote:Hi. I have an E57 file that has 18 scans in it. I would like to use the images that are in the file for texturing. But I get an error in 3dreshaper when I try to load the file, and when I tried to export the images from scene I got the pointcloud in the images. What I want is to just have the images exported, or maybe seperate the file into 18 E57 files, so that maybe 3dreshaper can load them.
What I would like ideally, is to have the scanner positions made into spherical cameras in a 3d package, so I can use camera mapping for texturing. But that seems hard to do. Only way I know is to use Mari, and I have never used that program.
'Complete' E57 export in ReCap Pro should contain the spherical images, or at least sufficient data to recreate them. I have no idea what E57 variants are supported by Reshaper, however.

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The E57 files from Recap has the images, but the files don't work in 3dreshaper.
I sent a link to the file to support as suggested, hope they can figure it out.
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Hi Gudmund,

I had a look at the E57 file you shared.
As far as I can tell, it contains the point clouds but no image...

You say it does contain the images, how did you check?
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Re: Easiest way to get images out of an E57 file?

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Thank's for looking into it.
I can only see the images in Recap, but I took the E57 file into Scene and split it up, and when I import just a few of the 18 scans into Recap, I still see the images. So the images are there, I just can get them anywhere else.
Edit: I can see the images in Scene and LupoScan as well, but when I export them I get the points overlayed. So if I figured out how to avoid that, I would be able to get them exported .
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Re: Easiest way to get images out of an E57 file?

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Hi,

I am trying to achieve exactly the same as you. I have an e57 exported with only images from Cyclone. And It has data but 3DRehsaper does not open the file. When I export both cloud and images, then I can see the point cloud with the colour applied. But I just want to have the images.

Cheers,

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