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I have a project that is about 140 scans. This is the largest project we have tackled to date. Most of our projects are small room/compartments that typically are no more than 40 scans. Our scan settings are about 1/5 @ 4x (28 mpts).

When creating the point cloud, we are limiting the distance and also have "eliminate duplicate settings" set to high. Our Systems are Core -i9 processors running at 3GHZ with 128gb RAM. Our graphics cards are Quadro RTX 6000's. We are running off of 2 5TB hard drives with one of them set as scratch disk.

Here is the question.

How is it that I see many people on here working on projects with 500 - 700 scans but this 140 scan project is stressing my system so much that it is not able to create a point cloud after multiple days and crashes? What am I missing?

Any insight would help.
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Are you using SSD`s or NVMe`s?
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Jason Warren wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2023 2:47 pm Are you using SSD`s or NVMe`s?
Our OS runs off of NVME. Our 2 5 terrabytes hardrives are ssd.
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tipwynn wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2023 2:31 pm I have a project that is about 140 scans. This is the largest project we have tackled to date. Most of our projects are small room/compartments that typically are no more than 40 scans. Our scan settings are about 1/5 @ 4x (28 mpts).

When creating the point cloud, we are limiting the distance and also have "eliminate duplicate settings" set to high. Our Systems are Core -i9 processors running at 3GHZ with 128gb RAM. Our graphics cards are Quadro RTX 6000's. We are running off of 2 5TB hard drives with one of them set as scratch disk.

Here is the question.

How is it that I see many people on here working on projects with 500 - 700 scans but this 140 scan project is stressing my system so much that it is not able to create a point cloud after multiple days and crashes? What am I missing?

Any insight would help.
My stock answer to this is to do a bit of profiling to see which resources are being maxxed out when you're processing a large job. Easiest way to do this is to fire up task manager when your system is under stress and see which resource (CPU, memory, disk, GPU, network) is coming under pressure. Not a Scene user myself, but more generally, I've seen various security, antivirus and backup solutions play havoc with performance on software that is heavy on disk access. Performance pane on task manager will tell you which resource is under pressure, processes pane will tell you which program is the culprit. It should be Scene, but if not, there may be other background software that is being so zealous it is killing performance (Bullguard, Kaspersky, Norton etc... need to be configured for heavy duty processing workloads). For more in-depth performance analysis have a look at perfmon,
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tipwynn wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2023 2:31 pm I have a project that is about 140 scans. This is the largest project we have tackled to date. Most of our projects are small room/compartments that typically are no more than 40 scans. Our scan settings are about 1/5 @ 4x (28 mpts).

When creating the point cloud, we are limiting the distance and also have "eliminate duplicate settings" set to high. Our Systems are Core -i9 processors running at 3GHZ with 128gb RAM. Our graphics cards are Quadro RTX 6000's. We are running off of 2 5TB hard drives with one of them set as scratch disk.

Here is the question.

How is it that I see many people on here working on projects with 500 - 700 scans but this 140 scan project is stressing my system so much that it is not able to create a point cloud after multiple days and crashes? What am I missing?

Any insight would help.
While I'm not a SCENE user anymore, take a look at this help page from FARO's database.

https://knowledge.faro.com/Software/FAR ... erformance

Lots of good info in there to help trouble shoot and maximise performance. One thing I've noticed in the past is to ensure the GPU is the default for your application. It can be changed through the Nvidia control panel. Also install/check Nvidia GeForce Experience for GPU driver updates. When stuff goes haywire or slow for me, that's been the culprit in the past.
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When you're about to create project point cloud, on bottom of dialog box, there should be info if there is enough space for project point cloud and temp folder on drive(s). I'm doing far larger project with i9, 128GB RAM and GTX1080. Even on laptop (i9 12900H, 64GB RAM, RTX 3070ti).

If there is not enough space on system drive for temp, you can relocate it on different drive (in settings).
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I've found that choosing to eliminate duplicate points on that high of a setting will increase the time to process exponentially. Use the default maybe?
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Also, what software are you going to use your point cloud in after it's complete?
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dmanning wrote: Wed Apr 26, 2023 10:12 am Also, what software are you going to use your point cloud in after it's complete?
After we complete the pointcloud. It is then transferred to our engineering department and they primarily use SceneLT and Recap.
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ProCro wrote: Wed Apr 26, 2023 7:35 am When you're about to create project point cloud, on bottom of dialog box, there should be info if there is enough space for project point cloud and temp folder on drive(s). I'm doing far larger project with i9, 128GB RAM and GTX1080. Even on laptop (i9 12900H, 64GB RAM, RTX 3070ti).

If there is not enough space on system drive for temp, you can relocate it on different drive (in settings).
For comparable project, how long does it take typically take to build a point cloud of that size?
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