Hi everyone,
I’m looking for a reliable solution to convert LiDAR point clouds into colorized meshes. I’ve already tried Vision LiDAR, but unfortunately it’s quite expensive for our users, so I’m exploring alternative options that work well in practice.
Does anyone have recommendations (plugins, software, or workflows) that you’ve had good results with?
Thanks in advance!
Reality Scan can do it, and it is free if your company earns less than $1 million USD /yr
Metashape can also do it, Standard license is about $200. The Pro license is significantly more but has some additional capability for working with point clouds.
The texture map generation is a consideration. Difference in processing can result in lower resolution texture maps if they do not use the images captured by the scanner. A terrestrial scanner will provide a better result than a mobile solution like SLAM.
Thanks a lot @cdordoni . What they are scanning are buildings and terrain using their iPhone (I guess). So, in order to introduce this data into Rhino, they need to convert it into colorized meshes. Do both alternatives you mentioned do this job?
There would be a significant difference in the accuracy and quality of iPhone LIDAR compared to a terrestrial laser scanner. I have seen some examples for small objects at close range here on the forum, there’s a Rhino app that will process the iPhone scans Rhino - iRhino 3D
I don’t have direct experience with iPhone LIDAR or iRhino, perhaps others can comment on how well it works.