Creating Unified Mesh

This article describes the step-by-step process of creating and exporting Unified Mesh from the scan data outlining possible issues that could happen along the process.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Prepare the scans
• Choose the area of interest
• Create the mesh
• Download the mesh
• Downloading the mesh from Cintoo

Prepare the scans

• If needed, the Overview Map has a Rotation tool that allows to align the X, Y and Z axis along any region of interest.
• The Rotation tool does not change the scan's coordinate system. It is used to facilitate the cropping but this rotation is not persistent.
• Select the project or Work Zone.
  
• Rotate the scans to make sure that they are orthogonal to the screen axis.
  

Choose the area of interest

Select the region of interest using Crop Tool in the Overview Map or in the 3D View if rotation is not necessary.

Use the X, Y or Z crops or any of the 6 cube's faces views to select the meshing region.

In the 3D View, the crop must be done in 3D Navi mode, not in Scan&Teleport mode.

• In 3D Navigation mode, all the scans visible in the crop will be selected for the meshing.
• In Scan&Teleport Mode, only the selected scan will be used for meshing.

Save or Update the crop.

Create the mesh

Click on Create Mesh for the selected crop to open the Create a Mesh window.

Select the resolution (or density) from 0.2 cm (1/10 inch) to 20 cm (7.9 inches).

• This is the minimum distance between two vertices.
• Be careful when selecting the resolution (see Unified Mesh Use Cases & Examples).

Select the export format: OBJ, FBX, STL

• OBJ: Photo-textures included
• FBX: Photo-textures included, lighter than OBJ
• STL: Geometry only

Warning: if an error message about the limitation of 100 scans pops up, not allowing to generate the mesh. Check this article to get a work-around for this issue: Mesh Creation limited to 100 Scans.

Warning: huge meshes (large region with very small resolution) take more time to process and will hardly be displayed in any desktop app. See Unified Mesh Use Cases & Examples section.

Once finished click Create, the following pop-window appears:

Download the mesh

After the mesh is created, an email arrives informing that the mesh is ready to be downloaded:

• download directly using Download your mesh button
• go the project in Cintoo Cloud to download from there by using Browse your project button

Downloading the mesh from Cintoo

To download the unified mesh from Cintoo Cloud, go to the project or Work Zone and select Data.

Click on the Download icon at the right of each unified mesh or click on Download Files at the bottom of the page: