The Miracle of The UCS

A UCS is a Universal Coordinate System. It's the X, Y and Z axes that the registered image is moved around on.

First, a 'clustered cloud' (we had a lot of fun with this term in the computer lab) is made from the registered scans. Then the 'clustered cloud' is placed on a plane.

I miraculously (click on the links; they're underlined!) managed to line the stitched and registered 'clustered cloud' images up properly on the UCS correctly on the FIRST TRY! The little red boxes show the new X, Y & Z axis points I added, and the red, blue and green lines show the three axis lines created from these points. This file was then exported to my external hard drive and saved as an 'rup.e57' extension.

Next, a lot of time was spent in the computer lab importing 'ClusteredClouds4' into Autodesk Recap, another software program.

In Autodesk Recap 360 the imported project lookes like this:

It's really something; easily manipulatable and you can still zoom into the rooms, like this:

In Autodesk Recap you end up with two filles of the project, with different extension names (.rcs and .rcp, to be specific).

We all edited our projects separately, but ended up with pretty much the same thing, which must mean we somehow did it CORRECTLY! I'm very pleased!