Software (english)

Automated Registration supports:

• scans
• spheres
• checkerboards
• circularflat targets and
• point3ds
• planes (rudimentarily, requires at least one other object)

Automated Registration features:

• Clustering will be optional considered, however it is not required even in huge projects.
• External references will be taken in account.

Available licensing models are:

• Full license – pay once, use the same major version lifetime
• Project license* – pay for every project, used with Automated Registration – scantaxi scan coins will be necessary!
• Project based demo license – this license will be provided for one project per company with a maximum of 500 scans in this project.

* The project license gives the possibility to test the APPs under real conditions or on small projects.

Usage

1. disable correspondence search in the settings (otherwise this will slow down your workflow)
2. load a scan
3. Click targets manually
   • a minimum of three correspondences per scan are required
   • a maximum of one minute operation time per scan is expected
4. check the scan while clicking and note
   • if the scan can be uploaded to a webshare
   • if it has to be cleaned before. Sometimes you have to remove offensive graffiti, ...
5. Improvement of the semi-automated SCENE marking is (at least with SCENE 5.3) rarely necessary
6. Naming is not necessary!
   • The constraints will be calculated by Automated Registration!
   • Without Automated Registration correct naming is fundamental!
7. unload scan procceed with step 2) until all scans are processed
8. 500 scans should be processed within one business day
9. start Automated Registration — it should finish within a few seconds – at least within a few minutes
10. check the report
    • sometimes there will be more than one cluster.
    • check the references in the overlapping scans
    • add some more constraints
    • read the "scanning hints" (section 5.1) in the manual
11. check the settings,
12. if necessary, restart Automated Registration
13. start postprocess or backup the project
    • 500 scans will be placed correct at closing time
    • the project pointcloud (if necessary) and export can be started over night

The weakness of Automated Registration is, that only manual identified references (and external) will be used (no naming necessary at all) – no possibility to use "AutoFeatures" because the count of references will be too huge – otherwise calculation time will increase infinite – FARO-Test-Center pointed at this (thanx) !

It is recommended to improve the Registration with the scantaxi APP Project Adjustment Helper and JAG3D or rmNetz. JAG3D is free and the results are the same as in rmNetz... The results of Project Adjustment Helper can be reimported to SCENE.

Known Issues

• Unloading the app while running will cause SCENE to crash.
• Registration may take a while - so please be patient. Just now, there is no progress dialog (coming with next release). When registration is completed, the dialog will appear.
• Locked Scanmanagers are still ignored (comming with next release)
• Fixed clusters/scans are ignored (comming with next release)
• AutoFeatures are ignored (up to version 1.0.1192)!
• Because FARO discontinued the API without informing the developers,
  the AUTOreg app will no longer run from SCENE version 2024.x!
  The conversion of the APP will probably take until the third quarter of 2025!
  We apologize for the circumstances!
   
  Workaround: Unfortunately use the old versions of SCENE only!

System Requirements and Compatibility

• SCENE 5.x
• SCENE 5.x LT
  (x > 1)
   
• Identical with SCENE
• Network card for licensing
• SCENE must be run as administrator to install the plug-in
• SCENE must be run as administrator to install any license (if license is installed with user privileges, each user has to install the license seperately)