Cleaning up data spray at ceiling mounted light fixtures

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Cleaning up data spray at ceiling mounted light fixtures

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Been doing a lot of plenum scanning. But the data just isn't great, mainly due to the excessive noise. Below screenshot is from RECAP. This is looking down on a fluorescent light fixture (ceiling mounted).

Is there a good filtering option for cleaning up this sort of data spray? Currently running Scene 5.2
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Hi Dan,
Have you tried using the SOR filter in CloudCompare?

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Have not tried Cloud Compare. Is it conducive to running on 150+ scans?
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tbh I'm not sure if you can batch process 150 scans through CloudCompare GUI, but I think you can run CloudCompare in command line mode, so it maybe possible... when I get five I will take a look for you.
http://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/in ... _line_mode

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Found this thread, worth a try?
http://www.danielgm.net/cc/forum/viewto ... =SOR#p9403
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Hi Dan,

it might be a little beyond Recap (Idk) but I woud suggest you need to crank up the 'Mixed Pixel' filter. LaserControl is pretty good at this but Cyclone and I assume Cloud Compare also.

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Can Cyclone clean this up autonomously? I can export FARO --> e57 --> Cyclone for cleanup --> e57 --> RECAP.

I guess I'm down one step vs. 5 years ago?? :?
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berdindc wrote: Fri Sep 01, 2017 4:38 pm Can Cyclone clean this up autonomously?
Probably not. In Cyclone Navigator there's an important feature in the 'Edit(?)' pull-down called something like "Phase Based Scanner Import Filter Options', or similar, here you can set pretty good filters that can do a great job of cleaning up scans on import(IF you apply their values correctly). However this only works (as far as I'm aware) when importing raw scans from a narrow range of scanners (Leica HDS6xxx and HDS7000 plus z+f equivalents) so no Faro and no e57..

Anyone know if Cyclone can apply filters to imported data from other formats? I can't think and don't have Cyclone with me.

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In scene you can check Liber-d plugin. Check the comments in the forum, it looks like a killer app.

As an alternative export the fls files, import in recap and set filter to medium or aggressive, export back..

A check with you dataset will help to see if they are offering what you expect.

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