LiDAR to Design to Survey Layout - Riegl VZ600i 

Thank you very much! Absolutely, I will try to work in real world jobs into future videos more.

I agree, given the accuracy spec of the point cloud "controlled" by the RTK antenna, there really would be few use cases for us as well. And I really haven't struggled with registration when I haven't used the RTK antenna either. I could see some outfits having niche use cases for the optional RTK antenna but I would imagine they are the exception, not the rule. Perhaps if a company only needed less accurate point cloud data and didn't have SLAM, Mobile or Aerial LiDAR available to them and only had this I could see it but the main reason we opt for terrestrial scanning over those other options is accuracy. Thanks fantastic to hear about your experience with the RS system. It's a hidden gem, but hopefully not hidden for too much longer.

Thank you! No it wasn’t a rental or a freebie unfortunately, that would have been nice. We do have an RTC as well so expect a comparison in the not too distant future. There are pros and cons to each. Yes you can check out and check in licences for register360 but one licence cannot be used by two users simultaneously. With RiSCAN, that is not the case. There is no checking in and out and multiple users can work in RiSCAN at the same time. Considering the amount we pay for a scanner it’s an odd business tactic to sell a tool that is useless without paying a yearly fee and that yearly fee being stuck to one user at a time makes it worse. I can see it from a solely software based company that needs continual income to fuel R and D but I’m not a fan of the pay to play approach that hardware manufacturers take with their processing software that makes the scanner useless without it. Coming from a customer, this 100% affects where I’m willing to spend my money. But at least it’s better than the pay to process approach that other manufacturers take, that we also own hardware of, which is many times worse than a floating license. Haha yes, the check in/check out process can be frustrating for sure.

Ah, that is an interesting and much better approach to licensing with RiScan Pro. Thanks for the clarification. I look forward to any comparisons you have planned for the future! It's always one thing to see the white paper comparisons Leica does behind the scenes to compare their systems to competitors like Riegl, but for end users like ourselves, understanding the whole process start to finish for real world projects and scenarios is far more valuable than something done in an almost laboratory controlled environment, haha.

Absolutely, and we do too if the necessary accuracy spec of that job dictates we should. That was really the main point of running the scan this way, to test the claims of 1-2cm in absolute accuracy from RTK alone. Yes, the method of aligning data to control really is quick and easy in RiSCAN. I'll respectfully disagree with your statement "Filtering should be done in Riscan while you have it. not in cloudcompare." Cleaning the point cloud can and should be done wherever it is done the best. If you can do a better job in RiSCAN than CloudCompare, by all means, that is the right tool for you. If someone else has different tools available to them that do a better job, then that is the right tool for them.

@@The3rdDimensionSurveying didn't mean you shouldn't use another software but Riscan uses all the parameters from the measured data the best. My 2cts of course.

Ahhh I see. To be honest I need to put more effort into learning all the filtering tools of RiSCAN. Like I said in the video, it really is an impressive piece of software.