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Point Clouds

Did some scanning last week. Had 2 pointclouds in the program. I exported both point clouds (one at a time) into XYZ files using the current alignment.

These point clouds pull into Geomagic just fine. I wanted to show something to someone today in the program, and one of the point clouds was empty. I did not empty it. It was still there when I saved the program after I exported both point clouds.

So, I tried to import the missing point cloud. It will not import into the correct location, as it it is off by almost 2000mm. I even tried using each alignment in the program, and NONE of them will import the point cloud into the right location.

What is going on with this?
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  • In my case, unknown sequence. Large scanning job. Make ONE program that aligns the job, run it so it is aligned. Save program as SEC1, SEC2, SEC3, SEC4, SEC5, SEC6. Close, open each SEC program and scan that section. ONE of those programs had no data a couple days later when I went to open it up. So, what sequence? The others still all had their data in them. Lucky for me, I had exported the XYZ data already so it wasn't lost, but I couldn't get it to import correctly.
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  • In my case, unknown sequence. Large scanning job. Make ONE program that aligns the job, run it so it is aligned. Save program as SEC1, SEC2, SEC3, SEC4, SEC5, SEC6. Close, open each SEC program and scan that section. ONE of those programs had no data a couple days later when I went to open it up. So, what sequence? The others still all had their data in them. Lucky for me, I had exported the XYZ data already so it wasn't lost, but I couldn't get it to import correctly.
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