– Radius of the spherical filter used to smooth the resultant mesh. – Typical Reduction Tolerance = 1/5 * max standard deviation – Compresses the mesh by reducing the number of triangles (without loosing definition) ADVANCED SETTINGS Īdvanced Settings Explained – (usually do not change) It is generally recommended to have Low to Med level of Standard Deviation: Approximate alignment error (In meters for Optech) Surface Sampling Step: Average of interpolation step across scans the resulting mesh Max Distance: The maximum distance between two overlapping scans Values Carried over from IMAlign Project (usually do not change) In the Polyworks Workspace Manager, select the IMAlign project that you want to mesh and then select Create a Polygonal Model in the Workspace Manager. See below for specifics for IMMerge operations. Note – Only IMAlign projects can be meshed. IMMerge is the module in Polyworks that creates a mesh from an IMAlign project.

Once a point cloud data set has been properly aligned with overlap reduction, it is ready for meshing.

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