{"id":76,"date":"2020-03-29T23:49:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T03:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ericsaczuk\/?post_type=chapter&p=76"},"modified":"2020-03-30T00:08:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T04:08:23","slug":"chapter-3-1-export-dense-cloud","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ericsaczuk\/chapter\/chapter-3-1-export-dense-cloud\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 3.1 - Export Dense Cloud","rendered":"Chapter 3.1 – Export Dense Cloud"},"content":{"raw":"

Overview<\/h1>\r\nThis chapter describes the steps to export the Dense Cloud<\/strong> into a variety of external data formats.\r\n

Export Dense Cloud<\/h2>\r\nAlthough MetaShape is competently able to process dense point clouds into 3D map products, there are also other software packages which are specifically designed to process point clouds (e.g. TerraScan, SolidWorks or Cyclone). Dedicated point cloud processing software gives the user access to a wider range of tools with which to manipulate and edit the point cloud in order to produce a variety of architectural and geographic data products.\r\n\r\nTo facilitate this, MetaShape has an option to export the point cloud into a variety of industry-standard data formats including;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_156\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"177\"]\"A Fig. 22 Photoscan dense cloud export formats[\/caption]\r\n\r\nOne of the most common and widely used dense cloud data formats is LAS. To export the\u00a0Dense Cloud<\/strong>, right-click on it in the\u00a0Workspace<\/strong> and select\u00a0Export Dense Cloud...<\/strong>. Navigate to where you want to save the data set, enter a name, select a file format and click\u00a0Save<\/strong>.\r\n\r\nThe suggested output parameters are shown in the screenshot below, but they may vary depending on the specific software and user requirements.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_77\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"473\"]\"Screen Fig. 23 Parameter settings to export dense cloud to LAS format.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nOnce the point cloud is exported, it can be opened directly in an external software package.","rendered":"

Overview<\/h1>\n

This chapter describes the steps to export the Dense Cloud<\/strong> into a variety of external data formats.<\/p>\n

Export Dense Cloud<\/h2>\n

Although MetaShape is competently able to process dense point clouds into 3D map products, there are also other software packages which are specifically designed to process point clouds (e.g. TerraScan, SolidWorks or Cyclone). Dedicated point cloud processing software gives the user access to a wider range of tools with which to manipulate and edit the point cloud in order to produce a variety of architectural and geographic data products.<\/p>\n

To facilitate this, MetaShape has an option to export the point cloud into a variety of industry-standard data formats including;<\/p>\n

\"A
Fig. 22 Photoscan dense cloud export formats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the most common and widely used dense cloud data formats is LAS. To export the\u00a0Dense Cloud<\/strong>, right-click on it in the\u00a0Workspace<\/strong> and select\u00a0Export Dense Cloud…<\/strong>. Navigate to where you want to save the data set, enter a name, select a file format and click\u00a0Save<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The suggested output parameters are shown in the screenshot below, but they may vary depending on the specific software and user requirements.<\/p>\n

\"Screen
Fig. 23 Parameter settings to export dense cloud to LAS format.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once the point cloud is exported, it can be opened directly in an external software package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-76","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":74,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ericsaczuk\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ericsaczuk\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ericsaczuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ericsaczuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ericsaczuk\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ericsaczuk\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76\/revisions\/78"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ericsaczuk\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/74"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ericsaczuk\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ericsaczuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ericsaczuk\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ericsaczuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/ericsaczuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}