Be up to speed: FARO announces SCENE 2019 and FW 6.4 update with Moving objects Filter and a lot of improvements
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Be up to speed: FARO announces SCENE 2019 and FW 6.4 update with Moving objects Filter and a lot of improvements
Hello Community,
We proudly announce the latest Software Version FARO SCENE 2019.0 and Firmware Version 6.4 for FARO Focus S and M Series
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release ... _cleartime
Whats new?
Firmware 6.4:
- Retake Photo Functionality
The Retake Photo functionality in firmware 6.4 allows you to retake photos during the capture process. If people or traffic is moving through your scanning field of view, simply select these images on the scanner and capture them again. You don't have to restart the full scan or the full image capture process.
- Speed improved color capturing
We have leveraged some potential in the firmware to fasten up the speed of image capturing. In addition we have implemented a speed mode allowing you to improve the color capture speed even more in good light conditions
SCENE 2019:
- Improved scan processing speed
We have optimized the Software for massive task parallelization to leverage your hardware investment in the best possible way. Scan processing times are reduced by 50% average depending on the used hardware. In our tests with different hardware and project configurations, we were able to achieve time savings from 35% up to 70% for scan processing compared to SCENE 2018.0. This of course is also valid for processing used in our true on-site registration workflow.
- New moving object filter
The new moving objects filter allows you to clean up your dataset from moving objects like people, cars or machinery by a push of a button. After inital scan registration, simply start the filter and the project will be cleaned up. In conjunction with the retake photo feature in the firmware, this will reduce your time investment for manual clean up heavily and you don't have the need to capture scans twice in high traffic environments.
- Improved meshes
SCENE 2019 allows to create textured meshes to be exported in post production and design softwares. You can keep the number of triangles low for less file sizes and improved performance but keep visual quality of your dataset. In addition you will be able to manipulate meshed scenes like a clipping box with manipulators for translation and rotation. Also you are now able to import detailed, textured meshes as obj. files to view in Virtual Reality and render using our SCENE Video apps.
- Improved overview map
Created overview maps can now be manipulated using the properties button. Easily change the color of the background, color of the point cloud or visualize scan coverage for selected scans.
So I think you agree a lot of cool things included in the latest versions. Go for a trial and post you time savings in the thread using the new features:
SCENE 2019: https://knowledge.faro.com/Software/FAR ... _for_SCENE
FW 6.4: https://knowledge.faro.com/Hardware/3D_ ... _downloads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjA6PWN ... e=youtu.be
Wish you happy scanning!
We proudly announce the latest Software Version FARO SCENE 2019.0 and Firmware Version 6.4 for FARO Focus S and M Series
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release ... _cleartime
Whats new?
Firmware 6.4:
- Retake Photo Functionality
The Retake Photo functionality in firmware 6.4 allows you to retake photos during the capture process. If people or traffic is moving through your scanning field of view, simply select these images on the scanner and capture them again. You don't have to restart the full scan or the full image capture process.
- Speed improved color capturing
We have leveraged some potential in the firmware to fasten up the speed of image capturing. In addition we have implemented a speed mode allowing you to improve the color capture speed even more in good light conditions
SCENE 2019:
- Improved scan processing speed
We have optimized the Software for massive task parallelization to leverage your hardware investment in the best possible way. Scan processing times are reduced by 50% average depending on the used hardware. In our tests with different hardware and project configurations, we were able to achieve time savings from 35% up to 70% for scan processing compared to SCENE 2018.0. This of course is also valid for processing used in our true on-site registration workflow.
- New moving object filter
The new moving objects filter allows you to clean up your dataset from moving objects like people, cars or machinery by a push of a button. After inital scan registration, simply start the filter and the project will be cleaned up. In conjunction with the retake photo feature in the firmware, this will reduce your time investment for manual clean up heavily and you don't have the need to capture scans twice in high traffic environments.
- Improved meshes
SCENE 2019 allows to create textured meshes to be exported in post production and design softwares. You can keep the number of triangles low for less file sizes and improved performance but keep visual quality of your dataset. In addition you will be able to manipulate meshed scenes like a clipping box with manipulators for translation and rotation. Also you are now able to import detailed, textured meshes as obj. files to view in Virtual Reality and render using our SCENE Video apps.
- Improved overview map
Created overview maps can now be manipulated using the properties button. Easily change the color of the background, color of the point cloud or visualize scan coverage for selected scans.
So I think you agree a lot of cool things included in the latest versions. Go for a trial and post you time savings in the thread using the new features:
SCENE 2019: https://knowledge.faro.com/Software/FAR ... _for_SCENE
FW 6.4: https://knowledge.faro.com/Hardware/3D_ ... _downloads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjA6PWN ... e=youtu.be
Wish you happy scanning!
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Re: Be up to speed: FARO announces SCENE 2019 and FW 6.4 update with Moving objects Filter and a lot of improvements
Looks exciting. WIll any version of the retake photos function come to the X series? It doesn't appear to be available.
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Re: Be up to speed: FARO announces SCENE 2019 and FW 6.4 update with Moving objects Filter and a lot of improvements
The export for SCENE WebShare Cloud also comes with some significant performance improvements:
The overview map creation has already been made faster for the previous version. Now, the panorama image creation is also much faster. You can expect the following performance improvements in comparison to the same settings used previously:
Minimal improvement: “No HD, only color” --> ~33% faster than previously
Maximal improvement: “HD images + HD distance files, color + reflection values” --> ~66% faster than previously
Layout plans with a very large physical size in meters were not well supported previously. A very large number of map tiles was created for them without regard to the resolution of the image in pixels. This is now done which leads to a reduction of the export time and the generated number of map tiles by orders of magnitude:
(A very extreme case of a layout plan with a size of 20 km.)
The overview map creation has already been made faster for the previous version. Now, the panorama image creation is also much faster. You can expect the following performance improvements in comparison to the same settings used previously:
Minimal improvement: “No HD, only color” --> ~33% faster than previously
Maximal improvement: “HD images + HD distance files, color + reflection values” --> ~66% faster than previously
Layout plans with a very large physical size in meters were not well supported previously. A very large number of map tiles was created for them without regard to the resolution of the image in pixels. This is now done which leads to a reduction of the export time and the generated number of map tiles by orders of magnitude:
(A very extreme case of a layout plan with a size of 20 km.)
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Re: Be up to speed: FARO announces SCENE 2019 and FW 6.4 update with Moving objects Filter and a lot of improvements
Yep,
Faro worked faster than us on the moving objects removal . Well done guys.
But we will still keep on working on cleaning scans, even if we don't include the feature in a plugin. It will be part of the software we're developing (which isn't a competitor of Scene).
Faro worked faster than us on the moving objects removal . Well done guys.
But we will still keep on working on cleaning scans, even if we don't include the feature in a plugin. It will be part of the software we're developing (which isn't a competitor of Scene).
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Re: Be up to speed: FARO announces SCENE 2019 and FW 6.4 update with Moving objects Filter and a lot of improvements
Unfortunately Firmware 6.4. with its features is only compatible with the Focus S and M models. The X series has a completely different operating system which not allows to simply migrate features from the S and M firmware.brianpgreen wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 3:57 pm Looks exciting. WIll any version of the retake photos function come to the X series? It doesn't appear to be available.
Thank you. Yes please continue working to extend workflows for the laser scanner community. Thats exactly the purpose of the API to allow anyone to extend the default software functionality offering additional workflows.Tgl_Nan wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:11 pm Yep,
Faro worked faster than us on the moving objects removal . Well done guys.
But we will still keep on working on cleaning scans, even if we don't include the feature in a plugin. It will be part of the software we're developing (which isn't a competitor of Scene).
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Re: Be up to speed: FARO announces SCENE 2019 and FW 6.4 update with Moving objects Filter and a lot of improvements
Holy Processor Utilization, Batman! I just imported and registered 35 scans in HDR in 15 minutes flat!
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Re: Be up to speed: FARO announces SCENE 2019 and FW 6.4 update with Moving objects Filter and a lot of improvements
Thanks for sharing! this makes an update quite interesting!
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Re: Be up to speed: FARO announces SCENE 2019 and FW 6.4 update with Moving objects Filter and a lot of improvements
Updated to the latest version yesterday and gave it a spin, importing/pre-processing is much faster but the moving object removal seems to take quite a while with hundreds of scans, it may actually be quicker to do manually currently but it's convenient.
I'm still having to manually remove glass reflections (doing this before i run the moving object removal).
Overall, great update!
I'm still having to manually remove glass reflections (doing this before i run the moving object removal).
Overall, great update!
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Re: Be up to speed: FARO announces SCENE 2019 and FW 6.4 update with Moving objects Filter and a lot of improvements
Indeed, the speed in preocessing is really FAST on our 22 Intel Core... 30 BW scans, mixed res 1/5 and 1/2 processed in 25 min! Good job FARO
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Re: Be up to speed: FARO announces SCENE 2019 and FW 6.4 update with Moving objects Filter and a lot of improvements
Any danger in upgrading in the middle of a couple of projects?
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